What does it mean to flatten your classroom?

<object height="315" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/skepG0Fkf54?hl=en_US&version=3&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/skepG0Fkf54?hl=en_US&version=3&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>What does it mean to flatten your classroom?</b></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">You remove the walls. You connect students to others around the world.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Connecting your classroom globally isn't as hard as you might think but is more important than you can imagine.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">This is a short 7 minute segment that I recorded on the Ignite Show, a show about education taped in Atlanta by my friend  <a class="g-profile" href="http://plus.google.com/110252016675633537553" target="_blank">+Anne Ostholthoff</a>  , where I was also a guest with Georgia Governor <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Deal" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Nathan Deal">Nathan Deal</a>. I highly recommend following <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skepG0Fkf54" target="_blank">the show</a> on YouTube, where I hope you're building a PLN of good shows and channels by real people.</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">It isn't about what you're keeping out but about what you're bringing into your classroom. What are you bringing in?</div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The Ignite Show - Flattened Classroom Segment (by <a data-mce-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skepG0Fkf54" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skepG0Fkf54" style="color: #007bff;">Anne Ostholthoff</a>)</div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/?px" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_c.png?x-id=9a8874aa-6b58-43c2-8e9b-b00745fa7a77" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div>

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