Footprints in the Digital Age - Annotated 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 "