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Flat Classroom Project is an award winning global collaborative project for students in Grades 3 -12, inspired by Thomas Friedman's book, ''The World is Flat'', and leverages Web 2.0 tools to foster communication and interaction as well as collaboration and creation between students and teachers from classrooms around the world. ==About== Co-founded in 2006 by educators Vicki Davis (U.S.) and Julie Lindsay (Australia), the (Flat Classroom® Project ) is a global collaborative project designed for students, typically in Grade 3 - 12, using Web 2.0 tools to support communication and collaboration between students and teachers from classrooms around the world. The project was inspired by topics included in Thomas Friedman's international bestselling book ''The World Is Flat: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century'' and was featured in the 2007 update "Release 3.0" of that book. The original project served as a foundation which has been recreated and expanded. Currently the project runs three times a year. The project has gained international recognition and awards from the International Society of Technology Educators(ISTE), Taking IT Global, World Innovation Summit for Education, and Edublog Awards and has fostered four similar projects based on the same holistic and constructivist educational approach, including the Digiteen, Eracism, NetGenEd, and A Week in the Life projects. The first spin-off the NetGenEd Project, originally called the Horizon Project, examines the book ''Growing Up Digital'', by Don Tapscott, in conjunction with the New Media Consortium's annual ''Horizon Report''. Another spin-off effort is the (Flat Classroom™ Conference ) which brings together geographically distant students that may have participated in one of the affiliated projects for a face-to-face meeting. At the conference students share ideas and take part in theme-based workshops to take back to their home schools. Themes are designed to explore global social issues and inspire unity and action, while advancing continued student-to-student and educator-to-educator connections. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flat Classroom Project」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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