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For decades, education has been an easy institution to define. It consisted of a set of accepted literacy skills, a definable body of knowledge, and the pedagogies for teaching those skills to willing students who were arranged in straight rows. Today, for the first time in decades (generations of teachers), we are facing the challenge of changing our notions about teaching and learning to adapt to a rapidly changing world. We are struggling to rethink what it is to be educated, to reinvent the classroom, and redefine what it is to be a teacher and a student.
There is much that has changed, and for much of it, we have responded by attempting to hold it back — to block it. This presentation, by 30+ year educator, author, and technologist, David Warlick, will explore some of these changes and challenges and arrange them as a set of converging conditions that might help us to redefine and retool the 21st century classroom.

Flat Classroom Energy Sources

Students' Intrinsic need to:
  • To work in responsive information environments,
  • To communicate,
  • To share personal experience & Identity,
  • To Ask questions,
  • To Accomplish,
  • To form community,
  • To invest themselves,
  • To safely make mistakes,
  • To have audience and attention.1

Books about Flat World

Books about Our Student's Information Experience

This page will list weblogs that mention flat, classroom, and Warlick. If you will be blogging a review or simply sharing your insights about the ideas of this session, please include the words flat, classroom and warlick in the text of the article. Blog entries that mention flat, classroom, and warlick.

flat classroom warlick - Google Blog Search

  • Day 1 at NECC
    Then, it was off to the theatre to hear David Warlick. David asked that those that blogged about the session include the words flat classroom and warlick so I just did. Handouts for all of David’s sessions at at: ...



  • Our students, our world - David Warlick
    The classroom has become “flat.” We have to be willing to let them teach us and each other. It’s no longer necessary for teachers to be the all-knowing sage. He closed by encouraging us not to be afraid to change the way we are doing ...


  • There's SO Much (and you can have some!)
    Flat Classroom and Horizon Projects. Julie Lindsay, Qatar Academy with Victoria A. Davis. Meet, share ideas, discuss the impact, and plan for future collaborations with educators who have been or would like to be involved in these ...


  • School 2.0 Manifesto
    Now, adding the concept of classroom to this definition, would characterize virtual classroom as ‘the learning environment where the teacher and learner exchange knowledge live by connecting to an internet connection instead traveling ...



  • Prepare Them for Their Future, Not Yours
    More than ever before, learning is no longer restricted to what happens within the classroom’s four walls. Teachers today have the opportunity to increasingly become facilitators of learning rather than distributors of knowledge. ...


  • Connections
    He was relaxed and articulate, and his insights regarding the "flat classroom" were well-received. So in the course of one day, I was able to interact with a student in South Korea and a cutting edge educator in my own home town. ...



  • David Warlick’s K12 Online Conference Keynote 2006
    I really like what Warlick says here, and as a classroom teacher I know how much fun those ’side trips’ can be. A great metaphor here, on the theme of learners navigating on their own, is the teacher as the compass. ...


New Information Landscape

Are Digital Students also Digital Citizens?

On February 20, 2008, in preparation for a Digital Citizenship Conference sponsored by the Missouri Bar Association, I posed the following question to the Twitterverse.

dwarlick: Just because they're digital natives, does that automatically make them digital citizens? How do digital immigrants become citizens?

Over the next several hours Twitter users who follow me, responded with their insights, limited to only 140 characters.

mweller: - and don't 'immigrants' often make model citizens (better than the 'natives', who take it for granted)

karynromeis: see @dajbelshaw 's post: http://tinyurl.com/3byc3d

lthumann: Don't they have to participate in order to be digital citizens?

joebjr: I like to think digital citizenship implies a bit of responsibility and participation. Not enough to just be born into it.

dabernethy: - immigrants become citizens through learning, application, and integrating dig tech in their lives. Open minded to what's new

debot: Early in our country's history only landowners were voting citizens. Blocking digital natives seems disenfranchising.

garystager: how many of our old-fashioned citizens behave as citizens? Why must you keep sorting people into new boxes?

ClareLane: -Immigrant has ALWAYS been incorrect -it should have been emigrant -but why not call all of us what we are -teachers and learners?

nandikerri: citenzenry takes an acceptance of and conscious participation in the spoken/unspoken 'social contract' of society in which u live

nandikerri: as one of my students said to me-'just b/c we r born into it doesn't mean we know how to use it better-"

mctoonish: I think that goes back to how do we define digital citizenship.

paulallison: Great question! We've been struggling with this at http://elggplans.wikispaces... How to move toward social action?

ArtGelwicks: Who has the right to determine what digital citizenship is? This is not an entity with a ruling body and standards.

plugusin: : Great questions. What do we do to teach citizenship? What are the consequences when we don't?

hbwenger: no...it doesn't make them digital citizens...just as in our own lives, 'digital citizenship' needs to be taught and modeled

paulallison: I wonder about all of my own digital connections and whether these have led me away from civic engagement: reforming my schools.

johnkrutsch: we become digital natives by _BEING_ online (always connected, etc...) rather than _GOING_ online.

Dowbiggin: We get naturalized by being huge geeks. (I'm a digital in-between)

cnansen: About digital immigrants becoming citizens? You've done it.. So have others. authentic assessment? Can you lose your citizenship?

 

1 -Audience Chat, "Our Students • Our Worlds." Miami Country Day School. Multipurpose Room, Miami. 14 Aug 2007. ⇑

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