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Preparing for 21st Century Learning
Will Richardson Weblogg-ed.com
[email protected]://webloggedlinks.pbwiki.com
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
