My Bookmarks and Annotations 03/20/2009

  • Will Richardson

    In the Web 2.0 world, self-directed learners must be adept at building and sustaining networks.

    tags: web2.0, socialnetworking, willrichardson, digitalcitizenship, richardson, digitalfootprint, footprints, pln

    • the online portfolios of who we are, what we do, and by association, what we know—are becoming increasingly woven into the fabric of almost every aspect of our lives
    • They're creating all sorts of content—some, as we all know, doing so very badly—and they're doing all sorts of things with online tools that, for the most part, we're not teaching them anything about. In the process, they're becoming Googleable without us. By and large, they do all this creating, publishing, and learning on their own, outside school, because when they enter the classroom, they typically "turn off the lights"
    • these shifts demand that we move our concept of learning from a "supply-push" model of "building up an inventory of knowledge in the students' heads" (p. 30) to a "demand-pull" approach that requires students to own their learning processes and pursue learning, based on their needs of the moment, in social and possibly global communities of practice.
    • They need to know that publishing has a nobler goal than just readership—and that's engagement.
      • Our teachers need to focus on engagement as well - post by hthiele
    • "collective action," sharing responsibility and outcomes in doing real work for real purposes for real audiences online
    • And older students should be engaging in the hard work of what Shirky (2008) calls "collective action," sharing responsibility and outcomes in doing real work for real purposes for real audiences online.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Comments

  1. Excellent bookmarked article - I completely agree!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Understanding the Superintendency - The Role of the School Board: A Basic Overview

Embedding Google Calendar in Another Language