What the World Needs Now

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Just got this email from Julie Lindsay with a list of schools coming to the Flat Classroom Conference in Beijing the end of February. This is very exciting!

Changchun American International School
Guangzhou Nanhu International School
RDFZ Xishan School
International Academy of Beijing
Hua Shi Yi Fu Zhong High School
Tsinghua High International School
Yokohama International School, Japan
International School Beijing
Gyeonggi Suwon International School, Korea
Western Academy Beijing
Beijing City International School
Beijing Normal University
University of Nothern Iowa, USA
Livingston American School, China
Al-Azhar Islamic Senior High School, Indonesia
Dalian Maple Leaf Foreign Nationals School
American International School of Guangzhou
Dulwich College Beijing
Kaohsiung American School, Taiwan
Shanghai American School
British School of Beijing -Shunyi Campus
International School of Tianjin
International School Yangon, Myanmar
Cebu International School, Philippines
Nanjing International School
British School of Beijing
The Illawarra Grammar School, Woolongong, Australia
Nishimachi International School, Japan
Stonehill International School, Bangalore, India
International School Bangkok, Thailand
Shekou International School
Yew Chung Intern. Beijing
Harrow International School Beijing
St Andrew's Cathedral School, Sydney, Australia
Westwood Schools, Georgia, USA
Minerva Special Needs School, Australia
Kristin School, Auckland, NZ
Vientiane International School, Laos
Teda International School
St. Michael's International School, Japan
Osama Bin Zaid School, Oman
Senri Osaka International School, Japan

There are many schools that understand that what their students need now is not only a world class education where the students know math, literature, writing, reading but also that students need to know this whole new subset of communication skills: technopersonal skills. More than that, they need to know how to relate and work with one another and that we need to have our students working together and co-creating with one another on an ongoing basis.

Our students need so much but they also need each other. They have an uncanny desire to relate. Let's social-network their learning in powerful ways.

I believe that those coming understand that the world is changing and they want to be part of it. In fact, so many of the schools coming are coming because of Twitter, Blogging, and Social networking. Pretty much all of the speakers involved came in to the program through our network.

Project based conferencing as we do it with very very short speeches (when they are given - we call them Flat Learning Action Talks or FLATs) and several projects that run through the conference is still a somewhat "experimental" method of conferencing in the eyes of many. But for those who have seen it in action it is tremendously powerful and transformational.

Wish you call could come - meanwhile, feel free to join the Conference Network and participate virtually. We'll send out instructions through the Ning.