1. Will Richardson
Chapter 9

2. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Tools for Classrooms
Excellent book that teaches educators how to utilize the emerging tools of the Read/ Write web including podcasting, blogging, RSS and wiki use.
Chapter nine discusses what this means for education.

3. Page 126 – New Literacies Tyner’s Chapter 8 –Critical Media Literacy
Richardson – 4 New Literacies
Editing – Including being a critical reader and viewer.
Publishing – Teach and model how ideas and products can be presented online.
Collaboration – Literacy includes communication skills and proceses
Managing Information – Tools for collecting, storing and retrieving relevant information.

4. 10 Big Shifts in Education
Open Content
Information that used to be found in textbooks is now a Google search away
Teachers no longer are there to provide knowledge

5. 2. Many, Many Teachers and 24/7 Learning
Biochemists, scholars of Faulkner, Civil War reenactors are available to our students
Primary Sources
Resources much richer than the traditional teacher – student relationship

6. 3. The Social, Collaborative Construction of Meaningful Knowledge
“do your own work” replaced with share your knowledge
No longer done with project – finished – move on
Share work with other scholars around the world

7. 4. Teaching is conversation, not lecture
George Siemens, “ Ideas are presented as the starting point for dialogue, not the ending point.”
Students are active participants in their learning – thus formulating them to earn how to be active participants in their life

8. 5. Know “Where” Learning
Not important to know what the answer is…….but where to find it
Move away from “closed” resources such as textbooks and move into “open” resourcs such as webpages and wikis

9. 6. Readers are no longer just readers
The Web is the “printing press for the masses” allowing many sources to be unedited
Students need to read as editors and edit out bad resources and content

10. 7. The web as a notebook
Wikis, blogs and websites make paper writing less and less important
Students save their writing online as well as pictures movies and resources

11. 8. Writing is no longer limited to text
“Rip, Mix and Learn” Alan Levine
Write in text AND audio, video, music, digital photographs, code in Javascipt, and publish this for an audience
Prove your knowledge – (as opposed to write a paper)

12. 9. Mastery is the Product, Not the Test
Traditional – show mastery by the TEST
Today – Methods of showing mastery – innumerable
Trend towards electronic online digital portfolios

13. 10. Contribution, Not Completion, as the Ultimate Goal
Traditional – Student hands in paper – teacher grades it – student throws paper away and is “done”
Today – Audience has shifted to the world
Teachers must change how they teach ----

14. Teachers as CONNECTORS
Model strategies
Connect students to primary sources
Invite scholars from the world to comment on student work

15. Teachers as Content Creators
To teach tools – teachers must know how to use them
Teachers who use the tools develop learning strategies and styles similar to their students. (Thatcher, 2005)

16. Teachers as Collaborators
Teachers need to see themselves as learners as well – not just with each other but with their students as well
No longer can teachers pretend to know everything

17. Teachers as Coaches
Model the skills – students responsible for their own performance
Similar to a coach – and players on a team

18. Teachers as Change Agents
Teachers need to incorporate new tools into their instruction – no longer wait until the administration tells them they have to
Find new ways to help students learn

19. The future is static
What is fresh and new now will be different in a year
We cannot imagine what will be available to educators in the not so distant future