Connecting and Learning in a Flat World

We have been accepted as Peer Reviewers in The Flat Classroom Project which links students in five different countries. The Flat Classroom Project is a global, collaborative project using Web 2.0 tools to foster communication, collaboration and creation. For inspiration and content material it draws on the work of Thomas Friedman and 'The World is Flat'. Read more about the project background and view 2006 and 2007 archives.

Our task is to review and comment on their work.Our comments will be read both by these students and by some serious experts who are evaluating the project. The main audience for our comments are the high school students.We need to remember in our writing that they are working very hard and also that only some of the students are from the USA. Our students have the responsibility of reviewing two of the eleven projects- 'Connecting the World Online' and 'Why we should be promoting Web 2.0 Tools for Sharing Information'

Students evaluated each group's work on three different criteria:

• Quality of Content
• Communication / Collaboration
• Presentation - Layout and Design

Take a moment to look at the evaluative thinking that took place by checking out their Graphic Organizer Summary of their Feedback here and here.
Students then had the task of organizing their feedback into a 3-2-1 model:

• 3 good things about the wiki project
• 2 improvements for the wiki project
• 1 piece of new knowledge that your group has acquired due to these high school students participating in the Flat Classroom Project

Take at look here and here to see the response the students sent to their high school Flat Classroom project partners.