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. Changing World

3. Not About Technology

4. Imagination

5. July 12, 2005

18. Kipling, Saskatchewan

19. Imagination

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

23. The reality for many of us…

24. …The Web

25. 1 billion people

26. 10 billion pages

27. 1 trillion links

28. The emerging reality…

29. …the Read/Write Web

30. Web 2.0

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

32. 50+ million Blogs

33. 70,000 new blogs each day

34. 1.2 million new posts each day

35. 7 million new Web pages each day Link

36. 2.7 billion links

37. Linking pages…

38. …ideas…

39. …conversations…

40. …and people.

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

42. Uploaders --Thomas Friedman The World is Flat

43. An active, participatory Web

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

45. For educators…

46. …extremely significant.

47. 69,000 Education Blogs --Joanne Jacobs

48. 25+ million kids creating content online --New York Times

49. Imagination

50. They are creating…

51. Matthew Bischoff

56. They are teaching…

59. …and they are learning…

60. …building networks…

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

62. Its different now.

63. Kids know it…

64. …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

65. So…

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

67. Its about imagination…

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

69. Big Changes for Schools

70. 1. The Web Changes Learning

71. Learning based on scarcity of knowledge and geography looks like this:

73. Learning based on abundance of knowledge and interest looks like this:

76. …and like this:

80. From do your own work to work with others

82. Question:

83. How can we re-envision classrooms that have access to people and ideas?

84. 2. The Web Changes Texts

88. We can create our own.

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

90. Rip, Mix and Learn

91. Question:

92. How can we create or supplement our texts to be more current and more relevant to our students?

93. 3. The Web Changes Teaching

94. Teacher as Connector

97. Teacher as DJ

100. Question:

101. When we have access to great expanses of content and billions of people, how can we re-envision teaching?

102. 4. The Web Changes Learning

103. Learn Anything Anywhere Anytime

104. U-Learning

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

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

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

109. Nomadic Learning

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

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

114. Social Networks

116. Social Research

119. Social Photos

122. Question:

123. How do we best support students to be self-directed, ubiquitous learners?

124. 5. The Web Changes curriculum

125. Audience

126. From Hand it in to Publish it

127. Students can teach.

129. iTunes K-12 Podcasts

132. Audiocasts Photos Videos Digital Stories Screencasts

133. Question:

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

135. 6. The Web Changes Literacy

136. Changes Reading

139. Changes Writing…

140. 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

142. Literacy is Editing

145. Literacy of Networks

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

147. Question:

148. 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?

149. 7. The Web Changes Computing

150. Web as app

152. Question:

153. How can we use open source and open content to connect students more fully?

154. 8. The Web Changes Culture

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

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

157. 280,000 new accounts each day

161. 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

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

163. We need to teach MySpace.

165. But, we need to know MySpace.

166. We cant be afraid of it.

167. Responses

168. Blocking/Filtering

169. Restricting

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

171. The result?

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

173. …and are in danger of becoming irrelevant.

174. Change is inconvenient. --Al Gore

175. The inconvenient truth about education…

176. US DOE, 2000

177. 30% of 9 th Graders dont graduate high school in 4 years. --Education Week

178. Only 27% of adults over 25 have a college degree. --US Census

179. But change may be coming…

180. School 2.0

183. We educators need to embrace these changes. We have no choice.

186. So…

187. Be imaginative…