Dec7-11


 * Monday - Share Video Podcasts with group.**


 * Tuesday - Snow Day

Wednesday - Flat Classroom Introduction**

Look at the [|other schools] involved. Add a push pin to the map for each school.

Check out the [|wiki] and [|videos] from the latest project.


 * Thursday -** Watch these 2 videos as a class.

[|ABC News Report on Outsourcing] (Video) [| ABC News Report on Outsourcing Part 2] (Video)

Answer this question, "How does outsourcing effect me and my future?"

Who better to create understanding about globalization than Thomas Friedman and his book The World is Flat. Interesting "stuff" about this world and this history of where we are and how we got here....the technology that is. The global economy is all around us. Read and explore these articles:

[|A Whole New Mind for a Flat World??] [|What does THAT mean??] [|Are you sure about that??] [|Could it be so?] Future graduates will need skills beyond those that used to be sufficient?? [|Hmm.....] What should you be teaching yourself that they didn't teach you in school?


 * Friday - Outsourcing**

Watch video - Thomas Friedman and "The World is Flat" - at MIT

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/266/

The Right Stuff - Part 2 - Ch 7 - 7:27.03

Listen to Daniel Pink [|speech] about "A Whole New Mind" and the abilities necessary to think in the 21st Century.


 * Monday - Outsourcing**

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