Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time

Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds presents a seven-step approach to transforming teaching using current pedagogies, technology tools, and global collaboration to create standards-aligned, technology rich, cross-cultural learning experiences that enhance 21st century student engagement.

Designed so readers may interact via their mobile devices, this highly engaging book on 21st century teaching and global collaboration pulls readers into the rapidly growing 21st century learning network of educators, teachers, and students. As schools struggle to engage students with learning and disengage them from their cell phones and social networks, Lindsay and Davis show how leveraging technology and social media and implementing global collaborative practices launches learning forward in all disciplines and better prepares students for the society of tomorrow. Using a seven step process, fifteen end-of-chapter challenges, and stories about Flat Classroom ® and other global collaboration projects, this book promotes student collaboration, community learning, and content co-creation that meets standards, increases engagement, develops understanding, and fosters digital citizenship and other skills that students need to be successful in our new world. It also presents methods for planning global collaborative projects and project-based professional development experiences.