Flat Classroom Project

Now, I'm not saying we can get rid of all tests, but for me in my class, where I had a lot of freedom in my computer science class, I truly adjusted.

And it was just a few years later when I co-created the Flat Classroom Project, studying Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat, with another teacher in Bangladesh.

We had our students write wikis together about the different trends of globalization that were changing the world, and they outsourced their videos to each other.

Now, that was back in the day of 128K, 56K, so we literally were sitting at the school all night just trying to get a really small video to upload to their partners in Bangladesh and to download those.

I mean, those were the days, right? but the students showed what could be done.

And lo and behold, if Thomas Friedman didn't find out about the flat classroom project, and he included us in version three of the book as what was possible in education.

Now, if I had held onto that test, I wouldn't have changed their lives and mine because one of those students actually ended up going to the White House many years later as a result of knowing how to collaborate, how to blog, how to work with people in other places, even though she runs a family farm right here in South Georgia.

These are the kind of things that change students' lives.

Today I'm talking with my friend A.J. Giuliani.

We first met when we worked on a project called the Flat Classroom Project together.

It was in Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat.

Remarkable innovator, educator, and also a Wall Street Journal And USA Today bestselling author.