We'd like to share with you the press release for the "A Week in the Life" project that fourth graders at Makassed OBK School have joined in:
The organizers of the Flat Classroom are excited to announce the selection of 31 participating classrooms for the ‘A Week in the Life...’ Project 2012-1. These schools represent more than 600 students, from 9 countries, and runs March through June 2012. The project managers for this project are Toni Barton and Betsye Sargent with assistance from Donna Roman and Donna Esposito, Community Builders, Tina Schmidt, Meetup Manager, and Maureen Tumenas, Multimedia Mentor.
The ‘A Week in the Life...’ Elementary Flat Classroom® Project 12-1 is a global, hands-on project for upper elementary school students which was founded by Julie Lindsay (Beijing, China) and Vicki Davis (Westwood Schools, Georgia, USA) in 2010.
Lindsay and Davis also co-plan and manage the Flat Classroom® Project for upper middle and high school students, the Digiteen™ Project (digital citizenship for middle and high school students), the NetGen Ed™ Project, and the Eracism Project™ that involves middle school students in a global debating event with finals being held in a virtual world and the face-to-face Flat Classroom® Conference held regularly in various places around the world.
Flat Classroom® has been:
included in Thomas Friedman's 3rd edition of The World is Flat, 2007
included in Don Tapscott's book Grown Up Digital, November 2008
Featured 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
In January 2012 Davis and Lindsay released their first book, ‘ __Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time__’ from Pearson Publishing
This year the ‘A Week in the Life...’ Project 12-1 brings together over 600 students in 31 classrooms in 9 countries across the globe. Working in teams of 8-9 students from different schools, they use technology to connect, communicate, and collaborate as they exchange information about a week in their life: how they go to school, where they live, how they get around, what kind of food they eat, what they celebrate, what clothing they wear or languages they speak, what they do in their leisure time, and what the environment is like where they live. Together each team will use a wiki, VoiceThread, or other web 2.0 tool to co-create a final project to share their information with the rest of the group.
The organizers of the Flat Classroom are excited to announce the selection of 31 participating classrooms for the ‘A Week in the Life...’ Project 2012-1. These schools represent more than 600 students, from 9 countries, and runs March through June 2012. The project managers for this project are Toni Barton and Betsye Sargent with assistance from Donna Roman and Donna Esposito, Community Builders, Tina Schmidt, Meetup Manager, and Maureen Tumenas, Multimedia Mentor.
The ‘A Week in the Life...’ Elementary Flat Classroom® Project 12-1 is a global, hands-on project for upper elementary school students which was founded by Julie Lindsay (Beijing, China) and Vicki Davis (Westwood Schools, Georgia, USA) in 2010.
Lindsay and Davis also co-plan and manage the Flat Classroom® Project for upper middle and high school students, the Digiteen™ Project (digital citizenship for middle and high school students), the NetGen Ed™ Project, and the Eracism Project™ that involves middle school students in a global debating event with finals being held in a virtual world and the face-to-face Flat Classroom® Conference held regularly in various places around the world.
Flat Classroom® has been:
included in Thomas Friedman's 3rd edition of The World is Flat, 2007
included in Don Tapscott's book Grown Up Digital, November 2008
Featured 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
In January 2012 Davis and Lindsay released their first book, ‘ __Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time__’ from Pearson Publishing
This year the ‘A Week in the Life...’ Project 12-1 brings together over 600 students in 31 classrooms in 9 countries across the globe. Working in teams of 8-9 students from different schools, they use technology to connect, communicate, and collaborate as they exchange information about a week in their life: how they go to school, where they live, how they get around, what kind of food they eat, what they celebrate, what clothing they wear or languages they speak, what they do in their leisure time, and what the environment is like where they live. Together each team will use a wiki, VoiceThread, or other web 2.0 tool to co-create a final project to share their information with the rest of the group.
| Schools | Teachers |
| TEAM A:The Phoenix School, MA | Betsye Sargent |
| Mill Creek School IL | Donna Roman |
| Annunciation Catholic School, CA | Kelly Botto, Lori Matsunaga |
| Global Prospective School, FL | Sophie De la Paz |
| St. Andrew the Apostle School, IL | Catriona Lynch, IL |
| Berkshire Country Day, MA | Maureen Tumenas |
| St. Mary School, IL | Gloria Janousek |
| Robert E. Lee Elementary School, CA | Nina Dixon |
| Brookview Elementary School, OH | Joy Meany, Sue Ann Miller |
| Gilman School, MD | Donna Vaccaro, Nick Schloeder |
| Boneo Primary School, Australia | Sally Walsh, Brett Miller |
| Beijing BISS International School, China | Shannon O’Dwyer |
| Shanghai Community International School, China | Sheri de Neef |
| Terakki Vakfi Okulliari, Turkey | Nick Manthel, Arzu Yolacan |
| Colegio Valle de Filadelfia, Mexico | Jacque Smiley |
| Kortkerosskaya Secondary School, Russia | Titiana Visheratina |
| TEAM B: Lincoln School, RI | Betsy Hunt, Kaitlin Palmieri |
| Cathedral of St. Raymond, IL | Theresa Allen |
| Valleyview Elementary School, NY | Emily Gibson, Adam Hoover |
| China Grove Elementary School, NC | Amie Travis |
| St. Ignacius of Antioch School, PA | Tina Schmidt |
| Pasadena Fundamental School, FL | Nancy Watkins |
| St. Mary Immaculate Parish School, IL | Brian Watkins |
| MacFarland Intermediate School, NJ | Donna Esposito |
| Ballwin Elementary School, MO | Tracy Scalzo |
| Sisli Terakki Schools, Turkey | Burak Gencay |
| Shanghai Community International School, China | Jake Varney, Ashley Holst |
| QSI International School of Bratislava, Slovakia | Christine Szeryk |
| ALMAKASSED Omar Bin Al-Khattab School, Lebanon | Rawya Shatila |
| Kortkerosskaya Secondary School, Russia | Ekaterina Kholopova |
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