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What on earth is an Ideation Nation? First let me say, I'm so excited about The Flatclassroom Conference that words cannot express them!  This conference is a three year dream and I'm so grateful for Julie Lindsay , Qatar Academy, and HSBC Bank for making this happen.  I truly believe this is going to be a monumentally transformational experience both for us and for education as a whole. It is about empowering students, empowering educators, and using technology in powerful ways that make sense in ways that promote learning.  Interactivity, engagement, and pushing conferences to truly become participative. We're working to get materials to you so that you'll be ready, but the first thing to do here is to PARTICIPATE!  Meet others, blog your reflections (as I'm doing) - share your photos, ask questions.  You'll get so much more out of the conference by interacting with people BEFORE you get there! Our theme is  Ideation Nation:  Citizenship in ...

Tomorrow night on the WOW2 show, my friend and global collaboration expert Sharon Peters will be moderating and interviewing Julie Lindsay, from Bangladesh and I about the Flat Classroom Project. We are quite excited that Thomas Friedman asked for several hundred words about this project to be potentially included in version 3 of his book. This was an honor to be asked by someone we both respect so much. We submitted it to him this week, perhaps it will work out! After reviewing the new NETS standards proposed by ISTE , Julie and I have concluded that this project meets each standard. Honestly, it was quite striking when we realized this, because the project literally evolved under our fingertips. Each of us pushed the other to do better and include more and we know that there are several areas we will improve upon next time. I hope you'll join us over at edtechtalk.com, Tuesday night at 9 pm EST. Join in the chat room and listen on Channel 1. It will be a great talk. (Julie...