Reflection

Reflection: NET T 1.a,b

I read the article "The Flat Classroom Project" and also watched the video on the "Flat Classroom Project."

I found this to be a very interesting in how the idea here is to bring classrooms together all over the world and to work on real-world issues while they do it. One of the interesting ways that they pull this off is to make the students work together by grouping them with other students that they do not know and from different schools as well. They have to figure out how they will collaborate in order to finish their projects. This made them decide what software they would use in order to work together on their projects.

I have seen and heard about connecting classrooms world-wide before, but not in this way. The technology is certainly there and I would be interested to see how it would work. The hard part would be the timing, so debating live might become an issue. I really like how this would bring students together from different cultures and really give our students an idea how other cultures live, rather than taking what they read in a book.

There are so many directions that I could take my Social Studies classes in with all of the new technology out there. Right now it is just a matter of implementing those ideas into my classroom. The hard part is that I want to try to add a little at a time, but my fear is that by adding too little, my students may end up farther behind.