Web+2.0+Outline

Read/Write Web - Adapted from Will Richardson's presentation at MCIU - May, 2007

"It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change" – **Charles Darwin** "The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." -- **Alvin Toffler**

An Interesting [|Article] about the merits of technology in our schools.


 * A Changing World, A Changing Internet**
 * The "Read/Write Web" - Web 2.0 allows people to create online, not just surf online
 * Challenging times for educators
 * Our students know more than we do - even in elementary school!
 * Students want are participating more
 * Students are publishing more
 * Students are connecting more
 * Our students are **//capable//** of more
 * Knowledge is abundant and changing
 * Pace of change is lightspeed
 * [|Jeff Han]
 * Learning is becoming //passion-based and deeply personalized//
 * Students and teachers from Kansas State University have created insightful videos in their [|Digital Ethnography] class of what should be expected in our Web 2.0 world and in our education systems:
 * [|The machine is changing us] - so we need to change!
 * 21st Century skills are imperative...[|students need a vision] and we need to help them. ([|How did they make that video?])
 * [|Information R/evolution] - How information has changed

Do the development of 21st Century skills and creativity intersect? Are there aspects of higher order thinking skills are uniquely expressed with creativity exercises? Is creativity as important as literacy in the world ahead? Controversial questions, but here's a short video from Sir Ken Robinson that addresses some of the questions you just read http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66
 * What Role Does Creativity Play?**


 * Changing notion of what it means to "read" and "write"**

Writing means not just text Reading is no longer limited to just reading People are writing:
 * Writing means participating
 * Writing means connecting
 * Writing means learning - The amount of information is overwhelming
 * Reading means responding
 * Reading means interacting
 * Reading means collaborating
 * 70 million blogs worldwide, 120,000 new blogs created per day, which is 1.4 blogs created every second of everyday according to Technorati's [|State of the Blogosphere] report in April 2007
 * 75,000 videos uploaded to [|YouTube] each day
 * A Connected World**
 * Learning is not about acquiring knowledge as much as it is about building networks. (Articulated by [|George Siemens] is his blog and the idea of [|Connectivism] posted in 2005)
 * Connective writing is judged not by what the document contains as much as by where it takes us. (David Weinberger)
 * The new Web changes the way we read and write....it gives kids a new authentic audience to learn from.


 * The New Web has many purposes in this environment.**
 * **//To Learn//: I have learned so much more from the network that I've been a part of on the web.**
 * My blog, [|Pushing the Technology Envelope] is an example of network creation. It's where I post my thoughts abuot educational technology.
 * My [|Google Reader] allows me to view and read blogs from other educators or any other web pages with RSS Feeds. This is where most of my new learning takes place!
 * My good fortune is that I can visit teachers [|around the world] or students [|around the world]!
 * We are at times teachers and at times learners. Our roles shift with each interaction.
 * And, through our students writing, we can [|connect them to other teachers] as well (The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd).
 * //**To Build Networks: It is much more than simply sharing thoughts...it's connecting to them.**//
 * We can help our kids to start creating their own networks as well and [|work with people around the world]. (Nata Village)
 * A daily read for me: [|Will Richardson]
 * Teachers can do this: [|Kristen Hokanson]
 * And even principals do this: [|Kimberly Mortiz]
 * And students can do it too: http://blogs.saschinaonline.org/chowitt/2007/09/18/character-change/
 * //**To Create Identity**//: And like it or not, [|MySpace] is another example of kids creating their own networks.
 * There are [|student role models], (Meg Cabot) on MySpace!
 * The Collaborative Web - This page is a collaborative space!**
 * Together, we [|negotiate truth]. (Wikipedia)
 * We can attend and contribute to a conference without leaving our rooms.
 * We can also [|write synchronously] from anywhere in the world with Google Docs and Skype.
 * And here's [|another example] of how these technologies can connect our students in new ways. (Celeste movie)
 * We can also connect our students to other students around the world so they can learn together. (Flat Classrooms Wiki)
 * The new web is more than just text.**
 * Giving students.
 * As [|Marco Torres] says, students' work "[|should have wings]." (Buckle Up)
 * Our students can [|teach back to us what they know]. (AP Psych)
 * And they can [|write in audio] as well. (Radio Willow Web)
 * Connective Writing Is...**
 * Writing that is inspired by reading and is therefore a response to an idea or a set of ideas or conversations.
 * Writing that processes those ideas and remixes them in some way to make them our own and is published to potentially wide audiences.
 * Writing that then becomes a part of a larger knowledge that is evolving in the larger network.
 * Writing that is written with the expectation that it too will be taken and remixed by others into their own truths by this continuous process of reading, thinking, writing (and linking), publishing and reading some more.


 * Questions for Educators**
 * //Who are your teachers?//
 * //How are you writing?//
 * //How are you modeling your learning for your students?//


 * Where do we go from here?**