About Flat Classroom® Projects

The Flat Classroom® Project is a global collaborative project that joins together middle and senior high school students. This project is part of the emerging tend in internationally-aware schools to embrace a holistic and constructivist educational approach to work collaboratively with others around the world in order to create students who are competitive and globally-minded. The project was co-founded by Vicki Davis (Westwood Schools, USA) and Julie Lindsay (Beijing (BISS) International School, China) in 2006.  The  /Flat Classroom® Project 2006 is was featured in Chapter 13, 'If it's not happening it's because you're not doing it', of the latest edition of Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat' upon which it was based.  One of the main goals of the project is to 'flatten' or lower the classroom walls so that instead of each class working isolated and alone, 2 or more classes are joined virtually to become one large classroom. This is done through the Internet using Web 2.0 tools such as Wikispaces and Ning.

Additional sister projects to the Flat Classroom® Project include the Horizon Project, and it's replacement since 2009 the Net Generation Education Project, created in conjunction with Don Tapscott and 'Grown Up Digital', based on the Horizon Report released annually by New Media Consortium and Educause; the Digiteen Project with the aim of promoting better online citizenship through research and discussion culminating in each school taking action within their own community to promote this; and Eracism, a global student debate that includes a virtual world component.

Flat Classroom®  Project Awards include:
  • SHORT-LISTED (September 2009)for a World Innovation Summit for Education award in the pluralism section. 
  • FIRST PLACE in the SIGTel Online Learning Awards for 2007. Special Interest Group Telelearning is part of ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education). The SIGTel Online Learning Awards recognize international innovation.
  • FIRST PLACE in the Taking IT Global collaborative project contest 2007
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More information about Flat Classroom® Projects and Conference/Workshop can be found in: 
Flat Classroom® Projects Now Open!
  • Flat Classroom Project - application deadline January 23, 2012 for FCP12-1
  • Digiteen - application deadline February 1, 2012 for Digiteen 12-1
  • 'A Week in the Life...' - application deadline February 15, 2012 for AWL12-1
  • Eracism - application deadline February 30, 2012 for Eracism 2012
  • NetGenEd - application deadline February 1, 2012 for NetGenEd 2012
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