How is a flat classroom different from a traditional classroom?

What will be an ideal response?


ANS: A flat classroom is one in which students have ready access to information. The teacher is not the lone expert or keeper of the truth, as in the traditional classroom. The teacher's role in the flat classroom is as a filter or a guide. Classrooms are becoming flatter due to students' access to information .

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Remarriages involve economic challenges for both the new blended family system and for single-parent family systems

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The term "child development center" includes:

a. full-day care centers b. part-day care centers c. preschools d. all of the above

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The growth in comic books was not always met with praise because:

a. many parents and educators questioned the deleterious effects that comics might have on children. b. publishers did not want to invest substantial financial resources into a genre that young adults did not want to purchase. c. writers of serious realistic fiction and historical fiction objected to young adult literature being "watered-down." d. sales dipped substantially when realistic fiction became most popular—comic writers lost their market share and were unable to compete.

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