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Teacher as “Global Celebrity” 
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
I’m not sure this will ever come to pass, but talk about standing the world on its end. Chris Anderson of Wired and Ted answers the question “What Will Change Everything” with this: “The Web Empowered Revolution in Teaching“.
For one thing, the realization that today’s best teachers can become global cel
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Social Media “Using Our Kids”
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Sun, 04 Jan. 2009
Just for the record, I love this quote by Michael Wesch:
We use social media in the classroom not because our students use it, but because we are afraid that social media might be using them - that they are using social media blindly, without recognition of the new challenges and opportunities they might create
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Looking Back, Looking Forward; Slow Blogging, Slow Change
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Fri, 02 Jan. 2009
Happy 2009!
I did some counting yesterday. Totalled up all of the blog posts and comments on those posts for the last three years, and found a pretty interesting relationship. Seems the less
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“What is Literacy?” Elluminate Session Today at 1 ET
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Fri, 02 Jan. 2009
So I know this is short notice, but yesterday Ben Grey, Ryan Bretag, Sylvia Martinez, Doug Belshaw, Bud Hunt and others were having one of those (I think) maddeningly frustrating chopped
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If You Are Going to EduCon 2.1…
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Tue, 30 Dec. 2008
…which I hope you are, the session/facilitator lineup/schedule has been posted, and there are some great topics for conversation and some equally great people leading them. It’s the edu
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“Oh, and You Have a Degree, Too?”
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Mon, 29 Dec. 2008
I know I’ve been on this “do my kids really have to go to college?” bender for a while now, but yesterday’s New York Times column by Charles Murray has added some new fuel to the fire. In “
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Meet the New Story, Same as the Old Story
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Tue, 16 Dec. 2008
So I’m still happy that in a few weeks Barack Obama will become president, but I have to admit I’m not as happy today as I was yesterday. I was hoping for the bold stroke, the real vision when it came to choosing a Secretary of Education, but alas,
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Networked Learning: Why Not?
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Fri, 12 Dec. 2008
So there seems to be a little string of really good blog posts that are laying out some definite re-vision of what schools can look like. This one, by Bill Farren, fits nicely with those Mark Pesce posts that I’ve been drifting in and out of here and
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The Ultimate Disruption for Schools
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Thu, 11 Dec. 2008
So sue me if sometimes I get too smitten with those who write compellingly and with vision about what all of this connective learning stuff means for the long term, but I love to read stuff that makes my head shift and hurt at the same time. Case in point is this post by Mark Pesce titled “Fluid Learning” which I read first last wee
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Of Dead Deer and Dead Blogs and Live Communities
(unknown author) via Weblogg-ed on Wed, 10 Dec. 2008
Shared by Darren Draper
Pretty funny stuff. :)
So it’s been a whacky couple of days both in virtual and physical space. First my blog got hacked by some Cialis spammer who left invisible links in a post from a couple of weeks
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Shameless Ad for EduCon 2.1
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Wed, 10 Dec. 2008
So, I’ve been telling everyone I see to come to EduCon 2.1 in Philly next month. After reading Chris’s info below, please register, and let me know if you’d like to help frame my discussion on “What Will Classroom Learning Look Like?”
Registration is now open for
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Edutopia: “World Without Walls: Learning Well With Others”
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Sat, 06 Dec. 2008
Once again, from the “Shameless Self-Promotion Deptartment” comes this essay I wrote for the December issue of Edutopia Magazine. As always, would love to know what you think.
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So What is the Future of Schools?
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Fri, 05 Dec. 2008
So I’m home from Seattle today with some mixed feelings about Microsoft’s School of the Future Summit, which was really excellent in some respects but left me wanting in others. The best part without question (and not tha
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New MacArthur Study: Must Read for Educators
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Thu, 20 Nov. 2008
So here is the money quote from the just released study from the MacArthur Foundation titled “Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project” (pdf):
New media allow for a degree of freedom and autonomy for youth that is
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“The Less You Share, the Less Power You Have”
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
My friend Bruce Dixon pointed out to me a few weeks ago that if you do a search for “lesson plans” in Google you get almost 9 million hits, which, when you think about it, is a pretty amazing number. Not saying that they are all great plans, mind you, but when y
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A Ray of Hope?
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Sat, 15 Nov. 2008
So, I’m thinking it’s got to be a good sign when one of the people Obama has picked to head up the FCC review team has been quoted as saying this:
“We’re not doing at all well for reasons that mostly have to do with the fact that we failed to have a US industrial policy pushing forward high-spe
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A Ray of Hope?
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Sat, 15 Nov. 2008
So, I’m thinking it’s got to be a good sign when one of the people Obama has picked to head up the FCC review team has been quoted as saying this:
“We’re not doing at all well for reasons that mostly have to do with the fact that we failed to have a US industrial policy pushing forward high-spe
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Get. Off. Paper.
(unknown author) via Weblogg-ed on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
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I certainly like this point, but it is not something that doable for most people now. Paper is easily portable and mailable. When everyone gets easy to use tablets or other electronic writing devices, then we can make the move. That's probably not too far off, but it's certainly not now.If, however, everyone has a computer in front of the
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Obama
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Wed, 05 Nov. 2008
Doesn’t matter who you voted for, history was made last night. I, for one, am happy for my kids.
No matter how the impact of paper newspapers is declining, at moments like these, there’s still nothing like the front page of the paper, not the website, that gives me goosebumps. And in that vein, I’m cruising through the hundreds of
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It’s the Parents’ Fault. Not.
Will Richardson via Weblogg-ed on Sun, 26 Oct. 2008
Recently, during a Q & A after a presentation, I had an interesting exchange with a high school principal that went something like this:
Principal: So I just want to give you my take on this.
Me: Sure
Principal: You bring up those examples of kids on MySpace and make the point that no one is really teaching them how to use those sites well.
Me: Yep
Princip
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