Friedman, T. (2005).  The world is flat: A brief history of the twenty-first century.  New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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This is a book about globalization and how world economies, networks, and technology have converged to level the playing field of knowledge and power, creating huge shifts in the standards of living throughout the [...]

Pink, D., Friedman, T. (2008).  Tom Friedman on education in the ‘flat world.’  The School Administrator.  February, 12-18.
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This article is actually an interview or conversation between Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind, and Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat.  It is a great discussion about the importance of “mashing” the [...]

Zhao, Y. (2008).  What knowledge has the most worth?  The School Administrator.  February, 20-26.
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An outstanding article relating how America can and should continue to flourish in a global economy—by continuing to nurture more right-brained thinkers—in short to breed creativity.  Clearly, based on the fact that much of East Asian development has been done on [...]

Burke, J. (2007). Teaching English language arts in a “flat” world.  In Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice (149-165). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
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A good article relating relevant literacy skills in the 21st century and how today’s students are going to have to think and appreciate a lifelong learning approach in order to be successful adults.  [...]

Question: Is this kind of presentation even that paradigm shifting anymore? Personally, I’m ready to move past this visionary type of discussion and into one of logistics.