And now, a word from Don Tapscott....

I'm jumping in between the chapter summaries to share information about the "Flat Classrooms Debate, Live from Qatar and Philadelphia"  --which occurred last weekend, Sat. 1/24/09.  Thomas Friedman, author of "The World is Flat" and Don Tapscott, co-author of "Wikinomics," spoke to the students. Tapscott also offered to send a personalized copy of his new book, "Grown Up Digital" to any student who writes a review of his book on Amazon.com. 

You can tune into the 2 hour Eluminate session, or just play the interviews from Friedman or Tapscott on the "Future of Education" website: http://www.futureofeducation.com/forum/topics/the-flat-classrooms-debate.

You will also see information from Steve Hargadon (the website's author), who shares his frustration with the "technology" for setting up and participating in this online debate.

These types of experiences could be made available to Stevenson students. What responsibility, if any, do we have as educators to make this happen?

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