According to Thomas Friedman world is flat because technologies,
habits and people converge. Besides, people work together and can collaborate.
He also mentions that the flattening of world has already happened in
Russia, India and China. He says that there are three globalizations:
globalization 1.0, that is, globalization through countries, globalization 2.0,
that is, globalization through companies and globalization 3.0, that is,
globalization through individuals.
Thomas Friedman talks about 10 flatteners and all these flatteners
work together and that is why world is flat:
- the
fall of Berlin wall which opened many windows
- Netscape
went public-it gave internet to the world- people easily connect to other
people
- Work
flow (software)- people connect through applications
- Outsourcing
- Off
shoring
- Open
sourcing
- Supply
chaining
- UPS
- Informing-collaborating
with data
- Steroids-wi-fi
He also mentions things that converge. For instance, we should
horizontalize ourselves, that is, change our habits in order to collaborate
differently with others and to successfully interact with each other. His ideas
can refer to teaching and learning in a way that teaching is also
collaboration: with materials, students, other teachers, parents and the whole
system under the term “teaching”.
Sugatra Mitra’s talk was rather interesting as he talked about
primary education in remote areas. His findings showed that the remoter area
was the worse the results were. His experiment proved that primary education
could happen on its own. Besides, if they had access to the Internet, they
could learn anything. It was pretty interesting that children were rather self-organized
and worked well in groups. The most surprising fact was that they did not need
a single teacher or instructor. They needed only a good computer and access to
the Internet.
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