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Multidisciplinary

Four Weeks to a Flatter Us

Bob Sprankle writes about how new media tools and collaboration can democratize teaching and learning.

Students at computer Last year I posted an article here at Media Infusion called “Four Weeks to a Flatter You.” The theme of the post was that the world is indeed becoming smaller as Thomas Friedman suggested in The World is Flat, and I provided a 4-week regimen to help teachers prepare themselves with skills necessary for constructing 21st Century classrooms. This year, I’d like to follow up that article on “Web 2.0 Self-improvement” with tools for “Web 2.0 Us-improvement.” I’ve put together another 4-week course to help us move further along the journey. We’ll examine the idea of how — because of the Internet — culture (and business) is changing through crowdsourcing and how we can take advantage of this phenomenon to transform and democratize our classrooms.

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