The World is Flat and 21st Century Classrooms at Rugby Middle School

A Professional Development Session for Rugby Middle School

Developed by Katherine A. JonesITC 5220-375

March 30, 2012

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Supplies Needed by Participants

• Laptop

• Colored pencils (provided)

• Tablet paper (provided)

• The ISTE NETS and Performance Indicatorsfor Students (provided)

• The ISTE NETS and Performance Indicators for Teachers (provided)

• RMS School Improvement Plan (provided)

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Performance Indicators for

Students

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Teachers

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Sources: NETS for Students [Adobe Reader document]. (2007). Retrieved March 28, 2012 from

www.krumisd.net/site/default.aspx?PageType=3NETS for Teachers [Adobe Reader document]. (2007). Retrieved March 28, 2012 from http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-teachers.aspx

The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman

• Won Pulitzer Prize three times for his work in the New York Times

• Author of bestsellers: From Beirut to Jerusalem, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11

• Named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report

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What are the main book topics?

5. You and the Flat World

6. Geopolitics and the Flat World

7. Imagination

1. How the World Became Flat

3. Developing Countries and the Flat World

4. Companies and the Flat World

2. America and the Flat World

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On November 28, 2007 Thomas Friedman gave the keynote address at MIT for Unlocking Knowledge , Empowering Minds amilestone celebration.

We will listen to the first 5 minutes of this speech. In this section of the video you will found out what inspired Mr. Friedman to write The World is Flat in 2004.

Source: MIT Milestone Celebration/Keynote Address [Video]. (2008). Retrieved March 28, 2012 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcE2ufqtzyk

Globalization Small Group Discussion

Globalization

Economics

Business

Culture

Education

Medicine

Policy

Environment

Technology

Communication

Each table has a Globalization concept map. Select a recorder who will jot down ideas shared in your small group discussion.

Why a flat world?Globalization 1.0

1492 – early 1800’sWorld shrank from large to medium

Globalization 2.0Early 1800’s to 2000

World shrank from medium to small

Globalization 3.02000-present

World shrank from small to tiny

How does The World is Flat relate to educational issues at Rugby Middle School?

Source: Rugby Middle School webpage

Educational Issue #1Effective Teaching and Learning Environments Produce

Globally Competitive Students

Replica of the one-room log school on campus of

Rugby dating back to 1840.

Section One: How the World Became Flat

One: While I was Sleeping

Two: The Ten Forces That Flattened the World

Three: The Triple Convergence

Four: The Great Sorting Out

The first Rugby school was built in 1840. Friedman describes the early 1800’s as globalization 2.0 when the world shrank for size large to medium.

Source: Rugby Middle School webpage

Activity for Issue #1: Globalization has effects on our students

Round Table directions for groups of two–four people:

At each table is a 24’ x 32’ piece of paper labeled Educational Issue 1: Effects of Globalization. Place this sheet in the center of your group’s table. Each person select a colored pencil from the pencil holder at your table. Respond to each question. When you hear the bell rotate the chart clockwise and respond to the next question. At ending bell, group members will have a group discussion and then each group will share with staff. (Post all charts on wall.)

Round Table Card One

Response Topic OneThe playing field is being leveled. Countries like India are now able to compete for global knowledge work as never before-and America had better get ready for this. (quote from Nandan Nilekani , p. 5) How can teachers at RMS prepare our students for this competition? What does Nandan Nilekani’s statement say to you about your curriculum and high order thinking skills?

Source: Friedman, T. L. (2005). The World is Flat . New York, N.Y. Picador

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Round Table Card TwoResponse Topic Two

Chapter two explains the ten forces that flattened the world.

Flattener #4 is Harnessing the Power of Communities.

In this section Friedman points out that Apache collaborators did not set out to make free software. They set out to solve a common problem-Web serving-and found that collaborating for free in this open-source manner was the best way to assemble the best brains for the job they needed done.

Use your laptop and go to Google Apps for Education. http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/collaboration.html

View description and list ideas for using with your curriculum this school year.

Source: Friedman, T. L. (2005). The World is Flat . New York, N.Y. Picador

Round Table Card ThreeResponse Topic Three

The societies that we are now melding with have a very high ethic of education. Here is a description of an Indian High School:-hundred 12th graders crammed into a room that is well over 100 degrees-students listen, rapt, although it is nearly 10:00 p.m.-students rush to reply to instructors question-students eager to finish before everyone else from a problem posed-return home and complete several more hours of studying (pages 212-213 description of an academic-coaching class for 12th graders in Chennai, India)• How can you inspire your students and their families this year in your program of study?• How can you help students and their families realize that there is a world full

of young people today who are competing for their future jobs ?• How can RMS collaborate with families to involve technology support at

home for school projects?

Source: Friedman, T. L. (2005). The World is Flat . New York, N.Y. Picador

Round Table Card FourResponse Topic Four

In the old world, where value was largely being created vertically, usually, within a single company and from the top down, its was very easy to see who was on the top and who was on the bottom. But, when the world starts to flatten out and value increasingly gets horizontally, who is on top and who is on the bottom, who is exploiter and who is exploited, gets very complicated….many players and processes are going to have to come to grips with “horizontalization.” (pages 242-243)• In what ways is the leadership at RMS vertical? Horizontal? • Can RMS come to the “grips with horizontalization”? • How can we become more “horizontal” in our professional learning

communities?

Source: Friedman, T. L. (2005). The World is Flat . New York, N.Y. Picador

Education Issue #2Effective Teaching and Learning Environments Produce

21st Century Professionals

Section Two: America and the Flat World

Five: America and Free Trade

Six: The Untouchables

Seven: The Right Stuff

Eight: The Quiet Crisis

Nine: This is Not a Test

What do the “Help Wanted” Ads look like in a flat world?

Read and Move ActivityOn your table is a folder labeled FLAT WORLD JOB DESCRIPTORS. There is a paper for each person to read. After reading all the descriptions, stand up and move under the sign that you feel best suits your personality and strengths.

Great Collaborators and Orchestrators (page 285)

Good horizontal interaction, comfortable working for a global company and translating its services for the local market wherever that may be.

Great Synthesizers (page 287)

Creating value by combining disparate parts into an integrated whole, designedaround consumer needs and demands.

Great Explainers (page 288)

Selling “advice” such that the product becomes a secondary focus.

Source: Friedman, T. L. (2005). The World is Flat . New York, N.Y. Picador

Great Leveragers (page 290)

Combining the best of what computers can do with the best of what people cando and then constantly reintegrating the new best practices the humans areinnovating back into the system to make the whole – the machines and thepeople – that much more productive.

Great Adaptors (page 293)

These are the “versatalists” - applying a depth of skill to a progressivelywidening scope of situations and experiences, gaining new competencies,building relationships, and assuming new roles.

Green People (page 297)

There will be lots of jobs involving the terms “sustainable” and “renewable”,focusing on bio-derived or bio-inspired solutions to our looming energy andenvironmental problems.

Passionate Personalizes (page 298)

The new middle jobs will require a personal touch, producing a revival in humaninteractive skills, skills that have atrophied to some degree because of theindustrial age and the internet.

Great Localizers (page 303)

Small and medium-sized firms will need to learn how to take all the global capabilities that are out there and tailor them to the needs of a local community.

Math Lovers (page 300)

More and more of what we design, what we write, what we buy is built on the foundation of math. “Whether it is the search engine guys, or the Goldman Sachs guys, everything is boiling down to who can make those complex computations to get the little edge, to be just two weeks ahead of everyone else.” (quote from Infosys CEO Nandan Nilekani)

There is a need for people who can execute the sorts of algorithms that drive search engines and Wall Street derivative strategies, proficient in Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II

Source: Friedman, T. L. (2005). The World is Flat . New York, N.Y. Picador

Rugby Middle School Upstairs Computer Lab

In your small groups review the technology goals in the RMS School Improvement Plan. Are we preparing the students at RMS for employment in a flat world?

Write suggestions on the notecards and place in SIP Suggestion Box or email suggestions to SIT chair. You will have further discussions in grade level meetings for researching best practices to use with your subject matter.

Education Issue #3Effective Teaching and Learning Environments Produce Leaders who act

responsible for greater interest of community

Section Three: Developing Countries and the Flat World

Chapter Ten

Section Four: Companies and the Flat WordChapter Eleven

Section Five: You and the Flat WorldChapters 12-14

Section Six: Geopolitics and the Flat WorldChapters 15-16

Section Seven: ImaginationChapter 17

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Examples of leaders in The World Is Flat

Examples of leaders found in The World Is Flat • Muhammad Yuns, a Bangladeshi and social entrepreneur-activist won Nobel

Peace Prize in 2006. Yunus founded the Grameen Bank, which granted small loans, without collateral, to the very poorest members of his society. He helped inspire a whole new banking industry-microfinance. (Read details to group from pages 493-495.)

• Andrew Rasiej, founded MOUSE.org to bring more technology to New York city schools and was Democratic candidate for New York City’s Office of Public Advocate. “One elected official alone cannot solve the problems of eight million people, but eight million people networked together can solve one city’s problems. (Read details to group pages 503-505.)

Source: Friedman, T. L. (2005). The World is Flat . New York, N.Y. Picador

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Two more examples of leaders in The World is Flat

Rob Watson, CEO of EcoTech International most respected environmentalists working in China started own company : “I saw the need for new green frameworks for business-where the clean path is the most profit…We need to realign these human laws with natural law unless we want to be a dad biological experiment of the planet.” (Read details to group pages 512 -514.)

Abraham George, Indian man born in Kerala who graduated from NYU started software firm that specialized in international finance, sold it in 1998 to return back to India and use his American-made fortune to try to change India from bottom-the absolute botton up. (Read details to group pages 630-632.)

Source: Friedman, T. L. (2005). The World is Flat . New York, N.Y. Picador

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Curriculum goals, Indicators, and Leadership

Curriculum Goal

ISTE NETS and Performance Indicators for Students

ISTE NETS and Performance Indicators for Teachers

How can we incorporate all three to develop effective leaders?

Globalizati onIn your Classroom

Flat Classroom Projects

How can these projects help our students at RMS?

• Gives students experience of in-depth global learning

• Allows for cross-curricular units of study

• Enriches cultural diversity

• Allows for collaborations and global awareness

• Participation in a social cultural environment

Flat classroom Resources

Here is your chance to embed a flat classroom experience into your curriculum!

Use the RMS Flat Classroom Wiki for sharing ideas with each other.

Generate ideas from links: http://www.flatclassroomproject.org/

http://www.flatclassroombook.com/

With so much focus on globalization, we sometimes loose sight that a community can meet many of their needs locally.Examples:

• Henderson county is the largest grower of apples in NC. However, you can purchase apples grown in China at our local Wal-Mart.

• Western NC has a significant number of trout farms. However, most seafood in the frozen section of Ingles is produced and shipped from Asia.

Shipping these products from China and Asia to NC greatly increases the carbon footprint for bringing these products to market, thus possibly contributing to global warming.

Alternate Considerations to Globalization

Local Awareness at RMS RMS teachers are making students aware of the local produced products and local businesses through units of study and projects:

• Fieldtrips to Mineral Museum

• Math in Our World: Local business representatives explain how they use math in their career

• Apples in Education Unit (guest speaker a local apple farmer and research specialist)

Source for Image : http://www.cityofhendersonville.org/

Activities teachers can Use to Incorporate Technology, Cultural Awareness, Global Awareness, and Community Support

Project Based Learning

COOPERATIVE

LEARNING

GROUPS

Research projects

Flat Classroom Projects

Globalization 4.0 is the next great challenge

for educators.

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Works Cited

Flat Classroom Projects. [Website]. Retrieved April 1, 2012 from http://www.flatclassroomproject.org/

Friedman, T. L. (2005). The World is Flat . New York, N.Y. Picador

Google Apps for Education [Google Document]. Retrieved March 28, 2012 from http://www.google.com/educators/p_apps.html

Google Images

MIT Milestone Celebration/Keynote Address [Video]. (2008). Retrieved March 28, 2012 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcE2ufqtzyk

NETS for Students [Adobe Reader document]. (2007). Retrieved March 28, 2012 from www.krumisd.net/site/default.aspx?PageType=3

NETS for Teachers [Adobe Reader document]. (2007). Retrieved March 28, 2012 from http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-teachers.aspx

Rugby Middle School website. Retrieved March 28, 2012 from www.rug.henderson.k12.nc