1. A Web of Connections: Why the Read/Write Web Changes Everything Will Richardson Weblogg-ed.com weblogged@gmail.com http://webloggedlinks.pbwiki.com

2. NECC 2.0!!!

3. Changed World

4. Not About Technology

5. Imagination

6. July 12, 2005

18. Imagination

21. The ability to confront and deal with reality by using the creative power of the mind; resourcefulness"

22. The Reality…

23. …The Web

24. 1 billion people

25. 10 billion pages

26. 1 trillion links

27. The Emerging Reality…

28. …the Read/Write Web

29. Web 2.0

30. We are at a turning point in the technology industry, and perhaps even in the history of the world. –Tim OReilly (May 14, 2006)

31. 50+ million Blogs

32. 70,000 new blogs each day

33. 1.2 million new posts each day

34. 7 million new Web pages each day Link

35. 2.7 billion links

36. Linking pages…

37. …ideas…

38. …conversations…

39. …and people.

40. Society of Authorship Age of Participation Era of Collaboration Age of Engagement

41. Uploaders --Thomas Friedman The World is Flat

42. An active, participatory Web

43. "We do not realize how significant the Read-Write internet could be." --Lawrence Lessig Author Free CultureLawrence Lessig

44. For educators…

45. …extremely significant.

46. 69,000 Education Blogs --Joanne Jacobs

47. 25+ million kids creating content online --New York Times

48. Imagination

49. They are creating…

50. Matthew Bischoff

55. They are teaching…

58. …and they are learning…

59. …building networks…

60. …expanding far beyond the walls of our classrooms.

61. Its different now.

62. Kids know it…

63. …now that we have podcasting and blogging anyone can do it. You don't need to be some rich person in New York, you can produce from your own home. It has also changed how we can learn in today's society. --Student in Clarence Fishers class

64. So…

65. Leveraging the Read/Write Web is not about the technology…

66. Its about imagination…

67. Its about thinking, literally, out of the box of the traditional classroom

68. Big Changes for Schools

69. 1. The Web Changes Classrooms

73. From do your own work to work with others

77. Link

78. 2. The Web Changes Texts

82. We can create our own.

83. Content Providers: Weblogs Wikis Websites News Books Forums P2P Podcasts Screencasts

84. Rip, Mix and Learn

85. 3. The Web Changes Teaching

86. Teacher as Connector

89. Teacher as DJ

91. 4. The Web Changes Learning

92. Learn Anything Anywhere Anytime

93. U-Learning

94. Ubiquitously connected and pervasively proximate. --Mark Federman

96. Learner decides what, when, where and how she learns.

97. From just in case learning to just in time learning

98. Nomadic Learning

99. Learning networks based on meaning not proximity. --Stephen Downes

102. Learning is a social process. --John Dewey

103. Social Networks

105. Social Research

108. Social Photos

111. 5. The Web Changes curriculum

112. Audience

113. From Hand it in to Publish it

114. Students can teach.

116. iTunes K-12 Podcasts

119. Audiocasts Photos Videos Digital Stories Screencasts

120. 6. The Web Changes Literacy

121. Changes Reading

124. Changes Writing…

125. On the Net, documents/pages get their value to a large degree not from what they contain but from what they point to. --David Weinberger

127. Literacy is Editing

130. Literacy of Networks

131. Working in distributed, collaborative environments (Jill Walker)

132. 7. The Web Changes Computing

133. Web as app

135. So…

136. Questions:

137. To what extent do these changes demand we rethink our curricula and our practice?

138. What needs to change when our students can publish to audiences far beyond our classrooms…when they themselves can begin to teach?

139. How does a teachers role change when we can bring primary sources into the classroom?

140. 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?

141. Challenges

142. 1. Fear

143. MySpace would be the 12 th most populous country in the world.

144. MySpace adds 200 new accounts every minute. --Wired

145. 280,000 new accounts each day

149. MySpace friends can be movies, cellphone companies, even deodorants. --NY Times

150. When you meet someone, the question is not Whats your number? Its Whats your MySpace. By checking out a guys profile, she said, you can actually get a feeling for who they are. --Heather Candella NY Times

151. We need to teach MySpace.

152. 2. Change

153. Change is inconvenient. --Al Gore

154. The inconvenient truth about education…

155. US DOE, 2000

156. 30% of 9 th Graders dont graduate high school in 4 years. --Education Week

157. But change may be coming…

158. School 2.0

159. --US Department of Education

160. 3. Control (or lack thereof)

161. Responses

162. Blocking/Filtering

163. Restricting

164. We take the tools they use out of their hands

165. The result?

166. Schools are looking less and less like their real world…

167. …and are in danger of becoming irrelevant.

170. So…

171. Be imaginative…