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Flat Connections - Global Projects

Building bridges between students that our future can walk across

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_Flat Connections global projects - APPLY NOW for February 2015
Have you read about our NEW Learning Collaboratives yet?
NEW! Flat Connections Global Educator and Flat Connections Global Collaboration Primer courses starting February 2015! READ MORE
NEW GLOBAL PROJECTS will start again in February 2015 for all levels of K-12. APPLY NOW!
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We invite educators who believe global collaboration has a place in their classroom. We invite educators who want to improve digital citizenship and cultural understanding, leading to global competency amongst students and teachers.
We invite educators who have some digital fluency and access to digital tools who want to use them in meaningful ways to connect with others and learn together.

Projects for K-6: Younger students can go global!

K-2 Building Bridges to Tomorrow

The K-2 Building Bridges to Tomorrow Project is a global collaborative project that joins together students at the lower elementary level (typically grade K-2, 4-7 years old). It is an exciting, challenging and unique experience that allows very young people (and their teachers) to connect and collaborate.
'A Week in the Life...'

'A Week in the Life...' is a Flat Connections Project for Elementary School students of approximate ages 8-11 (Grade 3-6). Students
connect, communicate, explore global topics and issues and create digital artifacts together that share solutions.
2014-15 theme: Environmental Issues

Middle School and High School Projects

Digiteen and Digitween Projects

Digiteen Project for 13 years and older and the Digitween Project for under 13 years study digital citizenship and promote effective and responsible online choices as well as immersing students into an online educational community for learning and collaborating. As part of the project students research current topics to do with digital citizenship, write a collaborative report, and perform and document offline educational action projects to promote effective digital citizenship at their local schools and in their communities.
Flat Connections Global Project

The Flat Connections Global Project is a fully supported and managed global collaborative experience for middle and high school students (typically grade/year 9-12, 14-18 years old). It challenges all learners to connect and communicate beyond their immediate classroom and school. It also encourages collaboration and co-creation of final artifacts as well as student leadership, while exploring emerging technologies and envisioning the future of learning.
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Global Youth Debates is a global collaborative project created around research and formal debating. It uses Web 2.0 tools to connect, communicate and debate across the world.

2014-15 theme: 'Global Peace and Security'.
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Flat Connections provides managed global collaborative projects for students in K-12 across the world.
The principles of these projects are always the same but the content is varied:
  • Core, content objectives united between classrooms,
  • Unique, individual, personalized learning experiences for each student,
  • The 'merging' and 'flattening' of classrooms from around the world for a period of interaction and work,
  • Innovative implementation and uses of multimedia and a wide variety of 21C Learning Skills,
  • Customizable components based upon the unique situation of each classroom's curricular objectives,
  • Project Managers who support and lead teachers, 
  • Fully connected and collaborative objectives supported by Web 2.0 tools
  • Empowered, engaged teachers with a commitment to build bridges that the society of tomorrow will walk across!
Global Projects September-December 2014
ARCHIVES
Since 2006 Flat Classroom (now Flat Connections) global collaborative projects have joined students and teachers across the world.
Flat Classroom global project archives