From Hand it in to Publish It: Re-Envisioning Our Classroom

Presented by Will Richardson. I have heard Will's presentation before, however, he really gets the idea of preparing our students for 21st Century learning and I am impressed again with his thinking and ideas.
Will has posted his presentation on a wiki: http://handitinnecc.wikispaces.com
My lecture notes follow his wiki, please have a look at it.

What does it mean to live in a world that is connected like it has never been connected before?
This changes how we teach, how we run our classroom….everything

Trends:
A networked world, Wikinomics – Don Tapscott, Taking IT Global, People can come together by there passions and connect with them.

Our kids are going to enter a hyper connected world, they have to understand certain Literacies, have particular talents.

Ideas of privacy is changing.

More of the work we create, is expected that we will share it out on our network. That is a shift, plagerism, copyright.

Extremely collaborative world.

Used to be “do you own work, now do work with others, bring others into the process.

Creativecommons.org, content producers can freely assign copyright to their work.

Take my stuff, use it as you will, make money off of it, attribute it me, or not.

The Changes are significant!

MitOpenCourseware – all free

Content is everywhere!

Wikipedia – currency of the articles may make up for some errors, content is always changing (look at recent changes)

How many have a MySpace or Facebook account – 55% - 60% of young people have one.

Technology is not slowing down, it in increasing.

Our classroom is not limited by 4 walls.

Cooperative Learning is not Collaborative Learning

Are our classrooms and our practices preparing kids for the world they will be facing when they begin their life’s work.

Are we teaching our kids to become life long learners?

Our students have to see Life long learners everyday, teacher is passionate about learning, it doesn’t stop when they go.

Thomas Freedman – If you aren’t doing it someone else will, even if you are doing it someone else will.

Blog: The Sam Jackson College Experience

Self – Learners
Self - Starters
Self - Selectors
Self – editors – information literacy – MartinLutherKing.org

Delicious Network Explorer

How do our kids build their networks? We aren’t happy with MySpace, Facebook, or kids need help organizing their network..

Kids are writing in hypertext environments – links drive the network.

Self – organizers

NECC special tags

Self – Reflectors

Self – Publishers

Google – scan this book

Tucker – Iditerod info added to Wikipedia

Self – regulators

Balance?

Self – protectors

***This are not units – They are a part of how we do business in a parts of the curriculum ***

How must we change?

WillowWeb

VoiceThread the have an audience

Flat Classroom Wiki – 10 Flattners from Thomas Friedman’s book

Thanks Will for another inspiring message!