Mariana

I really enjoyed the ICT first sessions. Popplet was really interesting and very useful as a documentation page available to all parties. Hope to learn more during the last two days, and be an effective part of the ICTschool community.

We had a lot of fun arguying about whether we're with or against Technology. What popped out at last is that we are mostly all conviced that ICT is a continuum and each one of us can find his spot on the line.

1- At a time when nations seem intent on building fences, is there hope for opening doors? 2-The Flat Classroom Project has expanded to help other classroom teachers create similar global exchanges, always including cocreated student projects and a video that is evaluated by international judges. 3-They are an opportunity to "connect, communicate, and cooperate with people from various cultures. … I believe that when we broke down the walls of the classroom, a small crack was made on the walls of the world".
 * __Sentences from Flat classrooms: How flat is your classroom?__**

Are we going back to Galileo's beliefs of the world being flat? If we see it from a philosophical angle we would say that he had a previous vision of the world and was thinking as an educator willing to eliminate all boundaries, destroy doors, obstacles and letting human beings enjoy the fact of living all on one land, sharing all natural and human-made ressources as they are no one's belongings but the Whole Earth community...

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