[TIPS] Are these students prepared for learning in this flat world?

http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2007/12/youre-invited-to-flat-classroom-student.html

Well, this week, the students in the classroom from Austria and those in Atlanta will be presenting their projects. Next week, the students in Qatar are presenting. Oh, and those students from the classroom in Australia presented last week. Read the above post (if your school permits you to see blogs) to get the link to the recording of that session.

I defy anyone to say that this isn’t GREAT stuff. That makes me all the angrier, and all the more frustrated, when I visit a school that blocks wikispaces, and that won’t allow even their TEACHERS to read blogs, or that otherwise stand in the way of EVEN READING ABOUT exciting projects like this.

Please, check this out – at home, if necessary. Then formulate a plan to present to your school board to get them to relax the restrictions on your network. There is too much at stake to allow that to stand.