I have the distinct honor to be speaking at the 2006 Annual ALA conference. My audience is mostly distinguished members of the American Association of School Librarians, and we will be exploring Flatism. It’s a word I would not have believed myself to be using on a few short years ago, and many have tired of its almost constant reference. Yet, New York Times reporter, Thomas Friedman’s used of the concept of flattening to describe a rapidly changing world has been quite useful in helping use to understand some of the things that are happening around us, and how we might adapt and even harness change to help us accomplish our goals.
Today, I will be talking about the flat world, the flattening of the web, and also the flattening of our schools, and how we must change the way that we think about teaching, learning, and curriculum in order to turn our changing landscape into valuable learning space.
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