_Building Bridges Today that Society Tomorrow Can Walk Across - Connect, Collaborate, Change

The Challenge Based Learning Conference for Students and Educators

A New Kind of Conference

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  • Tired of going to conferences and just listening all day?
  • Do you wish you could use the tools and create new products for learning?
  • Do you want to have contacts that are ready to collaborate?
The Flat Classroom® Conference is a unique event that includes students and educators to envision the future of education and of learning communities as they use leading technology tools such as wikis, blogs, social networking and digital storytelling. The conference is diverse in participation while allowing smaller groups to work with leading world-class presenters in a "flattened" environment where virtual participants also join in the conversation and action from remote corners of the world.
Educators will leave the conference understanding how to collaborate globally and with skills and contacts in hand to start projects. Students will leave the conference with leadership skills, technology skills, presentation skills, and a better understanding of diverse cultures and collaboration.

Who should attend?

_ This event is targeted to teachers and students of past, current and future Flat Classroom® collaborations as well as Information Technology teachers and Directors and school administrators who are responsible for pedagogical development with curriculum design, global collaboration, global competency, and international mindedness in their schools. Essentially everyone involved in the education process, including students are invited to attend and actively participate.

Two strands: 'Leadership Workshop' and 'Student Summit' will meet separately as well as in combined sessions to discuss and model best practice for promoting international collaboration as part of a global flat classroom. All participants will be given the opportunity to develop leadership skills in using information technology, particularly Web 2.0 tools, to connect, communicate and collaborate.

Flat Classroom® Workshop 2013

Join Julie in San Antonio, June 20-21, 2013 for this hands-on professional development opportunity. Educators who want to transform their learning and embrace global collaboration in their curriculum should attend.

Flat Classroom® Live! 2013 Punahou School, Hawaii

_Join us in Hawaii, July 24-26 2013 for the NEXT exciting Flat Classroom® event!
Plan to attend and join other participants from all over the world.
Flat Classroom® Live! promises to be another life-changing experience.
Educators and students interested in global issues and improving their international connections should join this conference.
Read more details on our Hawaii page!
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Students and teachers at the Flat Classroom Workshop, Mumbai, India February 2012

Learn about Challenge/Project Based Conferencing in our book!

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Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time is now available 

Learn More about Flat Classroom!

Videos and Media from past Flat Classroom Live Events!
We wish to thank our Partner Organizations and Sponsors
Further Information
The Flat Classroom® Conference and Flat Classroom® Workshop are designed and created by Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay, co-founders of Flat Classroom® Projects and is put on by Flat Classroom® Conference and Live Events Inc. non-profit US-based 501(3)(c).
The full conference is held regularly in different locations around the world, with the inaugural event being in Doha, Qatar in January 2009, then again in Beijing, China in 2011. Recent Flat Classroom® Workshops include the 21st Century Learning Conference, Hong Kong and ASB Unplugged, Mumbai, India.  You are invited to join our educational network, Flat Classroom® Conference Ning. You are also invited to review and join our Flat Classroom Projects. These are available for students K-12 and run usually twice a year.

Visit our sponsor THINK Global School to learn more about the world's first traveling high school.