Learning on the Blog

Collected Posts for Educators and Parents
Willard H. Richardson - Connective Learning, LLC
Learning on the Blog
August 2011 | 144 pages | Corwin
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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, weblogg-ed.com, 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 readiness

The 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.

Contents

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction: Invitation to Participate in the Dialogue

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

Index

Resources

Description

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, weblogg-ed.com, 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 readiness

The 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.

Contents

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction: Invitation to Participate in the Dialogue

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

Index

Resources

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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, weblogg-ed.com, 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 readiness

The 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.


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

Recent Product Reviews:

Students are already familiar with the Blog format and the idea of adapting it to the classroom is a great way to create a comfortable learning environment. It will also allow me to have students comment on each other's posts in a way that might be more detailed than on a Discussion Board. Great resource.
Dr Paul Beaudoin, Humanities Dept, Fitchburg State College
"Perusing this succinct, reader-friendly book feels like being invited into Will Richardson's restaurant for some fine dining and animated conversation. One of my favorite dishes: teachers at the center of their own learning networks."
Milton Chen, Senior Fellow, The George Lucas Educational Foundation
“… shows the potential when we collaborate to share ideas and best practices for the future.”
George Lucas, Edutopia
"An inspiration for innovative educators everywhere providing the big ideas and insights that transform the way we think about, discuss, and support student learning."
Lisa Nielsen, Author,The Innovative Educator Blog, Innovation Specialist, NYC Dept of Education
“Learning on the Blog is the single best place to start understanding how to take advantage of the power of social media, and the changes in teaching and learning that digital media have made possible. A great way to start cultivating your personal learning network is to read Will Richardson’s book, follow his blog, and follow him on Twitter.”
Howard Rheingold, Lecturer, Stanford University, CA

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