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Summary
Summary
Education reform: We don′t need better, we need different
Today′s students are immersed in the digital age, but can our educational system keep up? Best-selling author Will Richardson′s comprehensive collection of posts from his acclaimed blog, outlines the educational reform we must achieve to stay ahead of the curve. The book′s entries present a multifaceted vision of the 21st-century classroom and describe how a social media-changed world has created new opportunities for:
Project-based learning Student-created media that develops critical thinking Extending learning beyond the classroom and school hours Cooperative and collaborative learning Student empowerment and career readinessThe necessary shift will not magically happen, but experts agree that it must happen now. This compilation will inspire educators and parents to engage in the technology their children already embrace, and to take an active role in transforming education to meet the challenges of the digital revolution.
Author Notes
Will Richardson has been writing about the intersection of social online learning networks and education for the past 10 years at "weblogged-ed.com" and in numerous journals and magazines such at "Ed Leadership", "Education Week", and "English Journal." Formerly a public school educator for 22 years, he is a co-founder of Powerful Learning Practice, a unique professional development program that has mentored over 3,000 teachers worldwide in the last three years. His first book Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms has sold over 80,000 copies and has impacted classroom practice around the world. His articles have appeared in "Educational Leadership", "EdWeek", "The English Journal", "Edutopia", and "Principal Leadership," among others, and over the past six years, he has spoken to tens of thousands of educators in more than a dozen countires about the merits of learning networks for personal and professional growth.
Table of Contents
| About the Author |
| Introduction: Invitation to Participate in the Dialogue |
| Part I Teachers as Master Learners |
| On My Mind: Teachers as Master Learners |
| Personalizing Education for Teachers, Too |
| Urgent: 21st Century Skills for Educators (and Others) First |
| Why Is It So Hard for Educators to Focus on Their Own Learning? |
| Teaching Ourselves Right Out of a Job |
| The Next Generation of Teachers |
| Teachers as Learners Part 27 |
| Unlearning Teaching |
| "What Did You Create Today?" |
| Get. Off. Paper. |
| Opportunity, Not Threat |
| Response to Jay Matthews at the Washington Post |
| Part II Learning is Anytime, Anywhere, Anyone |
| I Don't Need Your Network (or Your Computer, or Your Tech Plan, or Your . . .) |
| What do We Know About Our Kids' Futures? Really. |
| Aggregator as Textbook |
| The Steep "Unlearning Curve |
| What I Hate About Twitter |
| It's the Empowerment, Stupid |
| So What Is the Future of Schools? |
| The End of Books? (For Me, at Least?) |
| No, Actually, You're Out of Balance |
| Making Kids "Googleable" |
| "I Never Knew I Could Have a Network" |
| Part III The Learner as Network |
| The Learner as Network |
| Social Learning |
| "The Less You Share, the Less Power You Have" |
| "School as Node" |
| Part IV Learning and Leadership |
| Don't, Don't, Don't vs. Do, Do |
| Transparency = Leadership |
| Yeah, You've Got Problems. So Solve Them. |
| "Willing to Be Disturbed" |
| "Tinkering Toward Utopia" |
| "What Do We Do About That?" |
| Who's Asking? |
| Part V Parent as Partner |
| It's the Parents' Fault. Not. |
| Dear Kids, You Don't Have to Go to College |
| "So Why Do You Only Give Your Kids 45 Minutes a Day on the Computer? |
| a Parent 2.0's Back to School Dilemma |
| a Summer Rant: What?s Up With Parents? |
| Owning the Teaching . . . and the Learning |
| The Ultimate Disruption for Schools |
| Part VI The Bigger Shifts . . . Deal with It |
| The Bigger Shifts . . . Deal With It |
| Failing Our Kids |
| Why Blogging Is Hard . . . Still |
| The Wrong Conversations |
| Index |
