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Web 2.0: Changing the Web from Read to Read-Watch/Write
Our children and your students are headed to a networked world that allows learning 24/7/365, rendering physical space less important and changing our roles as teachers. (The assignment below for EMSE 3122 at kean University is taken from a talk given by Will Richardson)


 * The Change: The Read-Watch/Write Web**
 * It's as easy to create and publish content as it is to consume it.
 * "[|Web 2.0]"
 * The Web is Changing Politics**
 * "The YouTube Cam [|]
 * The [|YouTube Debates] (NCLB Question)
 * YouTube "[|You Choose]" Page
 * [|Barack Obama]
 * [|Mike Huckabee] and [|supporter created video]
 * [|Local politics], too. (Nashua Teachers)
 * David Cameron's [|YouTube Channel]
 * [|Impact] at MySpace, where the first presidential primary will take place on Jan. 1 and 2, 2008.
 * [|Impact] at MySpace, where the first presidential primary will take place on Jan. 1 and 2, 2008.


 * The Web is Changing Government**
 * [|US Intelligence Agencies are using wikis] to communicate and collect information more effectively. ("Open Source Spying")
 * [|The United Nations is using wikis] to help decision making processes. (MSNBC)
 * [|Australian Government Caught Editing Wikipedia] (The Age)


 * The Web is Changing Journalism/Media**
 * "My readers know more than I do." --Dan Gillmor
 * [|USA Today] example (Gray Googler's article)
 * [|We all make editorial decisions] for the group. (Digg.com)
 * Traditional models for music and movies are quickly becoming obsolete
 * [|Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog] from the New York Times Magazine
 * Radiohead released its latest album in October 2007 [|without a label and without a price]. Buyers pay what they want when downloading at the [|Radiohead site].


 * Challenging Times for Educators:**
 * Our students are leading us.
 * Participating more
 * Collaborating more
 * Creating more
 * 71% of students with online access use social networking tools on a weekly basis ([|NSBA])
 * 75% of college students have a Facebook site
 * The use of social software by educators is significantly less.
 * We are entering a time of //deeply personalized, passion based learning//. (John Seeley Brown)
 * That makes our current curricula less and less relevant to our students.
 * More and more, the expectation is to create, not consume, yet we're not creators.
 * The amount of information is infinite and overwhelming.
 * Pace of change is lightspeed
 * [|Over 5,000 Web 2.0 apps]
 * Differing levels of access
 * 21 percent of households with an annual income of $30,000 or less had a broadband connection at home in 2006.
 * Standardized tests still emphasize content
 * Our [|notion of privacy is shifting] dramatically
 * Our kids use social networks [|to grieve publicly] as well. ([|Facebook] login required.)
 * We block instead of teach
 * Filtering does not work
 * A Melbourne student disabled the Australian governments $84 million porn filter in minutes. ([|Herald Sun])
 * Restricting use of technologies will not work
 * As wireless becomes ubiquitous, students will use their devices in schools. ([|Local Schools Battling High Tech Distractions])
 * In the next 10 years, over [|18 million teachers will be needed worldwide], over 2 million of them in the US (roughly half the education workforce.)
 * Our own time is limited.


 * The Web is Challenging Traditional Approaches to How We Learn**
 * My own learning has been transformed due primarily to the network I have become a part of.
 * an example of network creation. It's where most powerful learning has taken place. Here are a couple of examples: "[|Dear Kids, You Don't Have to Go to College]" and "[|Owning the Teaching...and the Learning]
 * And our networks [|can be with us wherever we are]. (Twitter)
 * And our networks connect our passion for learning.
 * My good fortune is that I have potential teachers visiting from [|around the world]. (ClustrMap)
 * Contrast that to most of our kids' classrooms which are still [|defined by four walls].
 * We are at times teachers and at times learners. Our roles shift with each interaction.
 * And they are using networks to [|create change around the world]. (Taking IT Global)
 * And like it or not, [|MySpace] is another example of kids creating their own networks.
 * But so are [|student role models], (Meg Cabot)
 * Millions and millions of [|people are participating] in the new social networking services. (Wikipedia)
 * Research is beginning to show that social networks have a [|positive influence on learning].
 * And teachers [|have their own as well]. (Classroom 2.0)
 * But we can help our kids to start creating their own networks as well and [|work with people around the world]. (Nata Village)
 * We can also build networks in virtual worlds. In fact, over 70 colleges already have. ([|Berkman Center in Second Life])


 * The Web is Challenging our Assumptions About Knowledge, Information and Literacy**
 * It's not as much about content anymore as much as it is about context. Knowledge and information used to be scarce...that's what our education system was built upon.
 * But how much of that information do we really remember and use? "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?" How many sides to a [|trapezoid]?
 * But today, I can learn anything, anytime, anywhere providing I have access.
 * Knowledge is [|no longer scarce]. (MIT) (1.4 million visitors per month from every country, every MIT course online by year's end.) ([|Discussion group on bio class here].)
 * Or check out the [|YouTube channel from Berkeley].
 * Or check out the catalog of [|podcasts from Stanford on iTunesU].
 * We can connect to information and build knowledge from it [|collaboratively, and freely]. (Wikiversity)
 * And we tend to look at knowledge as hard or unchanging...but these days, knowledge is soft. It's [|constantly changing]. (Wikipedia) To date, almost 6.5 million articles have been created in some 250 languages by almost 6 million people.
 * (By the way, [|errors are everywhere]. What would you do with [|this textbook]?)[[image:http://myskitch.com/willrichardson/twitter-20071017-072113.jpg align="right" caption="external image twitter-20071017-072113.jpg"]]
 * And the collaborative construction of knowledge is effective...[|just ask the CIA]. (Open Source Spying)
 * In this world, we cannot only seek information, but [|information seeks us]. (Pageflakes)
 * But in a world where anyone can create and publish information, [|how do we know what to trust]? (Dove Beauty)
 * How do we teach our students (and ourselves) to make sense of a much more complex literacy regarding [|who to trust] as authoritative sources. When we [|can be manipulated] or [|be the manipulator].
 * We can no longer be "just" readers...we must be editors as well.
 * And reading is no longer a passive, linear activity that deals simply with text. How do we read [|multimedia and hypertext]? (A Tank of Gas)
 * In this world, we must read with an ear for writing and responding, engaging and interacting.


 * The Web is Challenging our Assumptions about Classrooms and Teaching**
 * If teachers are no longer the arbiters of knowledge in the classroom, our roles need to change.
 * Classrooms [|can be global and anywhere]. (Supplementing my kids education.)
 * Take this teacher's Tweet: "In Gr.8 - using [|Google Earth], [|Flickr], [|YouTube], [|bbcnews], to learn about the protests in Burma .. world at their fingertips, AS IT HAPPENS!"
 * Now we have the opportunity to be connectors, to bring our classrooms to the world in a variety of ways. We can [|find other teachers] who may know more than we do. (Secret Life of Bees)
 * Here's [|another example] of students learning from mentors. (Polar Science)
 * We can also connect our students to other students around the world so they can learn together. (Flat Classrooms Wiki)
 * And in a world where all of our students can be content producers as well as content consumers, we need to re-envision the work we ask them to do.
 * They can [|teach what they know]. (Radio Willow Web)
 * Our students can [|teach in powerful ways]. (Pre Cal)
 * And they can share their experiences in meaningful ways, like [|Sam Jackson's Education Blog]--12th Grade student blog about college application process
 * As [|Marco Torres] says, students' work "[|should have wings]." ("Parents")


 * We Need a 2020 Vision for Education** (Bud Hunt)
 * Why is this important? Because the world is changing, and we are changing it, and our students need to know how to [|change the world with these technologies]. (Water Buffalo Movie)
 * How do we learn to help our students leverage the technologies they are already using instead of have them check them at the door? (Especially when our students can [|get around our efforts anyway].)
 * How do we change? How do we re-envision teaching for a vastly changed world?
 * How do we the use of these technologies in our own practice?
 * How do we begin to [|add nodes to our own network maps]? (Blank ClustrMap)
 * To take advantage of these opportunities, we all need to:
 * Find our passions
 * Connect to others who share those passions
 * Participate
 * Build learning networks with other teachers and learners
 * Model our learning for others