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 (now back in Australia) 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 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; Eracism, a global student debate that includes a virtual world component; A Week in the Life, for Gr 3-5 students; K-2 Building Bridges to Tomorrow, for K-2 students.
Flat Classroom® Project Awards include:
More information about Flat Classroom® Projects and Conference/Workshop can be found in:
Flat Classroom® Projects Applications.
NEW Application forms for 2013 and 2014 will be available by the end of March.
Join us at
Additional sister projects to the Flat Classroom® Project include 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; Eracism, a global student debate that includes a virtual world component; A Week in the Life, for Gr 3-5 students; K-2 Building Bridges to Tomorrow, for K-2 students.
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
- included in Thomas Friedman's 3rd edition of The World is Flat, pg 501-503, 2007
- included in Don Tapscott's book Grown Up Digital, November 2008
- featured extensively in ISTE's recent book publication Reinventing Project Based Learning: Your field guide to real-world projects in the digital age by Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss
- Featured in the book by Laurence Peters 'Global Education: Using Technology to Bring the World to Your Students
- Featured in the book by Curtis Bonk ‘The World is Open: How Web technology is Revolutionizing Education’, 2009
More information about Flat Classroom® Projects and Conference/Workshop can be found in:
- Davis, V. & Lindsay, J. (2010). Navigate the Digital Rapids. Learning and Leading with Technology, 37(6), 12-15. Download - DigitalCitizenship_Mar2010.pdf
- Davis, V. & Lindsay, J. (2007). Flat Classroom. Learning & Leading with Technology, 35(1), 28-30. Download - Flat_Classroom_LL_August07.pdf.
- Flat Classroom® projects from a participants viewpoint - excellent blog post from Flat Classroom® teacher and Board of Advisers member, Anne Mirtschin
- Flat Classroom® Project Information Brochure - available for download
- Flat Classroom® Participants Speak Up - a multimedia review of Flat Classroom® live events including student and teacher reflection comments
- Archives Flat Classroom Projects
Flat Classroom® Projects Applications.
NEW Application forms for 2013 and 2014 will be available by the end of March.
Join us at
- Flat Classrooms Ning (for educators): http://flatclassrooms.ning.com
- Flat Classroom® Conference: http://flatclasroomconference.ning.com
- fcp@flatclassroom.org
- Hashtag: #flatclass
- Follow us on twitter: flatclassroom
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