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Preparing for 21 st Century Learning Will Richardson Weblogg-ed.com weblogged@gmail.com http://webloggedlinks.pbwiki.com
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Changed World
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Reputation in Links
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Not About Technology
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Imagination
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July 12, 2005
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Imagination
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“The ability to confront and deal with reality by using the creative power of the mind; resourcefulness"
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The Reality…
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…The Web
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1,000,000,000+ people
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10,000,000,000+ pages
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1,000,000,000,000+ links
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The New Reality…
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…the Read/Write Web
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“Web 2.0”
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“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)
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40,000,000+ Blogs
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70,000 new blogs each day
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1.2 million new posts each day
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7 million new Web pages each day Link
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2,500,000,000 links
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Linking pages…
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…ideas…
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…conversations…
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…and people…
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…creating our own learning networks…
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…on a global scale.
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“Society of Authorship” “Age of Participation” “Era of Collaboration” “Age of Engagement”
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“Uploaders” --Thomas Friedman
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An active, participatory Web
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"We do not realize how significant the Read-Write internet could be." --Lawrence Lessig Author “Free Culture”Lawrence Lessig
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For educators…
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…extremely significant.
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12 million kids creating content online
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Imagination
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They are creating…
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Matthew Bischoff
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Blogs Videos Spoken Word Music Games
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They are teaching…
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…and they are learning…
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…building networks…
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…expanding far beyond the walls of our classrooms.
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It’s different now.
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Harnessing the Read/Write Web is not about technology…
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It’s about imagination…
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It’s about thinking, literally, “out of the box” of the traditional classroom
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Computers haven’t changed the world…
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The Read/Write Web just might.
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The Question is…
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To what extent do these changes demand we rethink our curricula and our practice?
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Big Changes for Schools
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1.
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From closed to open
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Content Providers: Weblogs Wikis Websites News Books Forums P2P Podcasts Screencasts
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“Rip, Mix and Learn”
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Teacher as DJDJ
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Web as app
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From Office to…
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2.
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From one teacher to many
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3.
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From some time to any time learning
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“Pull” vs. “Push”
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Learn Anything Anywhere Anytime
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“Ubiquitously connected and pervasively proximate.”
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From work alone to work together
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Wikitext Wikinews Wiktionary Wikibooks Wikiquote Wikisource Wikispecies Wikipedia Commons Wikitravel
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Link
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From text to multimedia
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Weblogs Wikis Audiocasts Photos Videos Digital Stories Bookmarks Screencasts Feeds IM
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Digital Portfolio, Loosely Joined
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From and audience of one to an audience of many
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“Hand it in” vs. “Publish it”
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Students can teach
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From Readers to Editors
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From Experts to Networks
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RSS Real Simple Syndication
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Read what others write…
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…Read What Others Read…
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…Read What Others Create
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From “Know What” Learning To “Know Where” Learning
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10.
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From Information Literacy to Network Literacy
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Network Literacy Working in distributed, collaborative environments (Jill Walker)
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More Content More Information More Knowledge
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Faster than ever before
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More transparent More collaborative
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Questions:
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What needs to change when our students can publish to audiences far beyond our classrooms…when they themselves can begin to teach?
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How does a teacher’s role change when we can bring primary sources into the classroom?
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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?
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Challenges
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Fear
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MySpace would be the 15 th most populous country in the world.
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Change
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“Change is inconvenient.”
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Control (or lack thereof)
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Responses
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Blocking/Filtering
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Restricting
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We take the tools they use out of their hands
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The result?
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Schools are looking less and less like their “real world…”
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…and are in danger of becoming irrelevant.
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So…
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Envy/sympathy
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