What it all means Chapter 10 By: Joshua Williams

What is going to be the impact on education? In this project the impact will be defined by using trends and shifts. There will be 2 trend and 10 Big Shifts in my presentation. I hope you learn and enjoy…………

1 st Trend Read/Write Web is defined by two trends in the use of technologies. R/WW will use more than 1 trillion web pages Google will be attempting to digitize more than 50 million book from the world’s 5 largest libraries. Arcive.org founder, Brewster Kahle will digitize 500 million volumes in the library of congress.

2 nd Trend Creation of content will be collaborative. Mostly all major software packages have collaborative tools built in. Ex. Shared Workplace has Microsoft Office software. Microsoft Office allows teams to collaborate Teams use: spreadsheets, presentations, etc…………. Google Docs also posses the same capabilities.

2 nd Trend Open source developments are helping individuals.

2 nd Trend Students will be working with others around the world. Because of this Teachers are now employing Weblogs and Wikis transforming education.

The Big Shifts Classroom of Read/Write Web is a seamless transfer of information. Technologies demand the way we reexamine our way of thinking about content and curriculum. Nurturing new ways to best teach students.

Big Shift 1: Open Content Teachers “owned” the content they taught in their classrooms. Most taught from text books with a few added resources. Magazines, newspapers, books, and public libraries offer extra resources. Students don’t want to put in extra effort

Big Shift 1: Open Content Today info is brought up using google or wikipedia Keeps info current and renders the need for text books. The “code” to teaching and learning once held by instructors are being replaced with open-source type classrooms.

Big Shift 2: Many, Many Teachers and 24/7 learning R/WW allows connection with other subjects as well as teachers that teach other subjects. As our access to content increases, so does access to other teachers. R/WW allows teachers to reach individuals like biochemist, scholars of Faulkner, and Civil War actors to bring to the classroom. Teachers that harness such tools can be considered knowledgeable like historians, authors, and researchers. Unlike the traditional student-teacher relationship, the student no longer just consumes the content provided by the teacher.

Big Shift 3: The Social, Collaborative Construction of Meaningful Knowledge For generations students have had to live up to the principal, “do your own work” which was produced for a limited crowd or audience. Now days there is interactions amongst the entire classroom. This new method teaches students how to collaborate in the real world. RW/W makes it easy for students to produce work that’s collaborative and for large audiences. This work will help students do work that has real purpose, real meaning, for the audience that reads and consumes it.

Big Shift 4: Teaching is Conversation, Not Lecture By publishing content to a wide audience, we say “these are my ideas, my understanding of the world at this moment.” This will ensure voices are heard around the world. R/WW’s intent is to stay relevant, requiring educators to respond accordingly. By conversing with the students, this helps students stay focus.

Big Shift 5: Know “Where” Learning In the R/WW classroom having the right answer is not necessarily more important than knowing where to find it. When info was not as accessible, relying on memory was the best way to find the answer. By having the ability to search for the answer, this causes stimulation to the mind. Today answers are just a few clicks away. In the past relying on the teacher, the library, newspaper, or the library was the way. The past method was time consuming and took tons of energy, which students and teachers don’t have in this society. Also being sure which sources are reliable and which ones are not.

Big Shift 6: Readers Are no longer just Readers With textbooks we can be sure that content is accurate and truth. Today reader cant assume someone has checked the content they are reading. Readers must learn to be critical consumer of the info they read for themselves. Readers must be able to discern the good from the bad on their own. This helps readers not only be readers, but also become writers. By education becoming more electronic readers are no longer suffered to read through a boring long book anymore. Readers can now chose to read what they want to read and don’t want to read better. In my opinion readers are actually reading more now today, more than ever.

Big Shift 7: The Web as Notebook (or Portfolio) The web has become more a source of content for our teaching and learning. Also uses less paper and a less effective way to capture the information we find relevant. Wikis and blogs were born to save and organize digital ideas that are found interesting. Now we can include audio, video, photography, and more. The web make learning an easier experience and also creates a better environment for the wildlife and trees. Also makes less of a hassle to store and save things. No need for the huge book bag, briefcase, binder filled with paper, or the heavy text books.

Big Shift 8: Writing Is No Longer Limited to Text Moving away from plain text on the page, moving toward a totally new definition of what it means to write. The world has become more multi- media, relying on TV to communicate the important ideas of our culture. According to a 2009 study, Americans only read about 13 books a year. We can now write in audio and video, music, digital photographs, and even codes, Ex. Java Script.

Big Shift 9: Mastery Is the Product, Not the Test The Age of R/WW is an age of participation and production. Compare the ways we showed mastery in the old days compared to today. For most mastery was proved by passing the test. Only in schools are students given the mastery title by scoring a 70 percent. Would a doctor be a good doctor if he knew 70 percent of what her was talking about? By using creativity and different realms of learning and demonstration, not only students, but artist, teachers, and other individuals can show how bright they truly are.

The Big Shift 10: Contribution, Not Completion, as the Ultimate Goal All the technologies allow students to contribute their own ideas and work to the larger body of knowledge that is the Web. Students can now keep track of their assignments, instead of getting them back and throwing them away. This offers students a new way to look at their work. This also helps students teach and show other students. By recycling the work of prior students, teachers can capitalize and encourage more strategies for students development.

The Big Shift 10: Contribution, Not Completion, as the Ultimate Goal The “New Net” allows us to tap into the creativity and knowledge of many that are willing to learn together and give students the best chance to learn. Pretending to know everything, isn’t the way anymore. More effective if we contribute to ideas and content. Teachers should act more as coaches, helping to strive for excellence. Teachers should be change agents.