In theme for the December/Jan issue of Edutopia Magazine is on the Collaboration Generation. An article of particular interest is "World Without Walls: How to Teach when Learning is Everywhere." It begins as an 11 year old community volunteer was asked where she gets her project ideas, and her response was, "I ask my readers." This 11 year old routinely blogs about her community service work with people all over the world. They exchange ideas, successes, and failures as they inspire each other to continue to carry the torch of volunteerism that makes a real difference. This is but one example of the power of collaboration and its global strength in numbers. We as teachers need to empower students to find these global connections by becoming their connectors and making our classrooms into hubs of global connectivity. We need "to teach students to see themselves as connectors and teach them to get better at learning from each other." Think of the power in learning that students would experience by Skyping, blogging, adding to a class Wiki, etc. that is shared with fellow students around the world?We need to teach students to find their writing voices so they can really connect with the millions of voices online. Can you imgine the global competition out there for your online voice to be heard? Can you imagine the power of capturing an audience that will commit to reading what you have to say on a blog or to contribute to a Wiki on a topic you've selected? To be a true collaborator, one has to be "freely willing to share ideas and to share these ideas on a daily basis, not just at the end of a semester for project day or open house. " True collaborators are driven by a passion to learn from each other. True collaborators are not limited by the walls of a classroom or the boundaries of a city or nation. This is where education needs to travel. This is the strength of future learning and power. This is the learning we need to pass on to our students so they can be successful collaborators in the 21st century.A link to the magazine can be found at: http://www.edutopia.org/collaboration-ageHowever the current articles are not posted. I do have a hard copy of this magazine which is published by the George Lucas Foundation.