preparing for 21 st century learning will richardson weblogg-ed.com weblogged@gmail.com

Preparing for 21st Century Learning

Will Richardson Weblogg-ed.com

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Changed World

Reputation in Links

Not About Technology

Imagination

July 12, 2005

Imagination

Imagination

“The ability to confront and deal with reality by using the creative power of the mind;

resourcefulness"

The Reality…

…The Web

1,000,000,000+people

10,000,000,000+pages

1,000,000,000,000+links

The New Reality…

…the Read/Write Web

“Web 2.0”

“We are at a turning point in the technology industry, and

perhaps even in the history of the world.”

–Tim O’Reilly (May 14, 2006)

40,000,000+ Blogs

70,000 new blogs each day

1.2 million new posts each day

7 million new Web pageseach day

Link

2,500,000,000 links

Linking pages…

…ideas…

…conversations…

…and people…

…creating our own learning networks…

…on a global scale.

“Society of Authorship”“Age of Participation”“Era of Collaboration”“Age of Engagement”

“Uploaders”

--Thomas Friedman

An active, participatory Web

"We do not realize how significant the Read-Write

internet could be." --Lawrence Lessig Author “Free Culture”

For educators…

…extremely significant.

12 million kids creating content online

Imagination

They are creating…

Matthew Bischoff

BlogsVideos

Spoken WordMusicGames

They are teaching…

…and they are learning…

…building networks…

…expanding far beyond the walls of our classrooms.

It’s different now.

Harnessing the Read/Write Web is not about technology…

It’s about imagination…

It’s about thinking, literally, “out of the box” of the traditional classroom

Computers haven’t changed the world…

The Read/Write Web just might.

The Question is…

To what extent do these changes demand we rethink our curricula

and our practice?

Big Changes for Schools

1.

From closed to open

Content Providers:WeblogsWikis

WebsitesNewsBooksForumsP2P

PodcastsScreencasts

“Rip, Mix and Learn”

Teacher as DJ

Web as app

From Office to…

2.

From one teacher to many

3.

From some time to any time learning

“Pull” vs. “Push”

LearnAnythingAnywhereAnytime

“Ubiquitously connected and pervasively proximate.”

4.

From work alone to work together

WikitextWikinewsWiktionaryWikibooksWikiquoteWikisourceWikispecies

Wikipedia CommonsWikitravel

Link

5.

From text to multimedia

WeblogsWikis

AudiocastsPhotosVideos

Digital StoriesBookmarksScreencasts

FeedsIM

Digital Portfolio,Loosely Joined

6.

From and audience of one to an audience of many

“Hand it in”vs.

“Publish it”

Students can teach

7.

From Readers to Editors

8.

From Experts to Networks

RSSReal Simple Syndication

Read what others write…

…Read What Others Read…

…Read What Others Create

9.

From “Know What” LearningTo “Know Where” Learning

10.

From Information Literacy to Network Literacy

Network Literacy

Working in distributed, collaborative environments

(Jill Walker)

More ContentMore InformationMore Knowledge

Faster than ever before

More transparentMore collaborative

Questions:

What needs to change when our students can publish to audiences far beyond our

classrooms…when they themselves can begin to teach?

How does a teacher’s role change when we can bring primary

sources into the classroom?

How do we define literacy in a world where we must not only

know how to read and write but to edit and create and publish?

Challenges

Fear

MySpace would be the 15th most populous country in the world.

Change

“Change is inconvenient.”

Control (or lack thereof)

Responses

Blocking/Filtering

Restricting

We take the tools they use out of their hands

The result?

Schools are looking less and less like their “real world…”

…and are in danger of becoming irrelevant.

So…

Envy/sympathy