This document discusses the changing nature of learning in a networked world. It notes that learning is now anytime, anywhere, and done by anyone using mobile devices. Learning is networked, global, collaborative, self-directed, and authentic. Literacy now involves skills like building relationships online, sharing information globally, managing multiple streams of information, and developing ethical skills for online environments. Effective schools will embrace both traditional and digital/networked approaches to education by focusing on inquiry, authentic experiences, and having teachers also act as learners. Overall, the document advocates for being bold and not waiting to change in order to prepare students for a world that is constantly changing.

1. LEARNING
in a Networked World
Will Richardson
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3. change

4. CHANGE

5. “The illiterate of the 21st
Century will not be those who
cannot read and write, but
those who cannot learn,
unlearn, and relearn.”
Alvin Toffler

6. Story 1

8. Unit Test on Ancient History
Story 1
and the Middle East

9. 14. This Roman emperor
changed the official religion of
the Roman Empire and moved
its capital to Constantinople
(today Istanbul):
Story 1
A. Ptolemy
B. Cyrus the Great
C. Constantine
D. Jesus

10. Short Answer Option 1:
What are the positive and
negative aspects of Uthman’s
caliphate? Why do you believe
Story 1
these aspects to be positive and
why do you believe them to be
negative. [Sic] Explain your
reasoning.

11. Story 1
Why?

12. Story 1

13. Story 1
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What does she need to know
about the Middle East?

14. Story 2

15. Mark Klassen
Cinematographer

17. Film Study
Video Production
Web Design
Storyboarding
Final Cut Pro
Photography
Story 2 Audio
Multimedia Editing
Scripting
Writing for Video
Web Publishing
Safety
Social Networking

18. Story 2

19. Story 2

20. Story 2 Classroom Time?

21. Story 2 Not one minute.

22. “Sharing my work online
so that other people can
see it and give me feedback
Story 2 and advice on it has
become a huge part of
the way I learn.”
Mark Klassen
January, 2011

23. Which of those two
stories is a more
Story 2
compelling narrative
around learning today?

24. Story 2 And, how is this...

25. 14. This Roman emperor
changed the official religion of
the Roman Empire and moved
its capital to Constantinople
(today Istanbul):
Story 1
A. Ptolemy
B. Cyrus the Great
C. Constantine
D. Jesus

26. Preparing my daughter
Story 2
for this:

27. Story 2

28. CHANGE

29. Media
Politics
Journalism
Medicine
CHANGE Books
Business
Music

30. Media - YouTube/Netflix
Politics - Obamanet/Change.org
Journalism - Twitter/Storify
Medicine - Patients Like Me/Foldit
CHANGE Books - Kindle/Nook/iBooks
Business - Amazon/Paypal/Ebay
Music - iTunes/Rhapsody

31. Media - YouTube/Netflix
Politics - Obamanet/Change.org
Journalism - Twitter/Storify
Medicine - Patients Like Me/Foldit
CHANGE Books - Kindle/Nook/iBooks
Business - Amazon/Paypal/Ebay
Music - iTunes/Rhapsody
Schools - ??????

32. CHANGE
Challenges

33. CHANGE
Challenges and
Opportunities

34. CHANGE Scarcity

35. CHANGE

36. CHANGE

37. CHANGE A B U N DA N C E

38. CHANGE
Content is not scarce.

39. “Today knowledge is ubiquitous,
constantly changing, growing
exponentially…There’s no competitive
advantage today in knowing more than
the person next to you. The world
doesn’t care what you know. What the
world cares about is what you can do
with what you know.”
Tony Wagner

40. CHANGE
Content is not scarce.

41. CHANGE
Content is not scarce.
Teachers are not scarce.

42. CHANGE

43. CHANGE

44. CHANGE

45. CHANGE

46. CHANGE

47. CHANGE

48. CHANGE

49. CHANGE

50. CHANGE

51. CHANGE

52. CHANGE

53. CHANGE

54. CHANGE

55. CHANGE

56. CHANGE
2020?

57. CHANGE

58. CHANGE

59. CHANGE

60. Learning?

61. Learning What Changes?

62. Learning
What do we need to
“unlearn?”

63. “We need to move beyond the idea
that an education is something that
is provided for us, and toward the
idea that an education is something
that we create for ourselves.”
Stephen Downes

64. Learning (This will not be easy.)

65. “Institutions will try to
preserve the problem to
which they are the solution.”
Clay Shirky

66. Learning So, what is our value now?

67. Learning
What do we mean by
learning?

68. Is it...
“higher student achievement”
Learning “increased student performance”
“better student outcomes”
“college readiness”

69. Learning Or is it something else?

70. "Productive learning is the learning
process which engenders and reinforces
wanting to learn more. Absent wanting
to learn, the learning context is
unproductive or counterproductive."
Seymour Sarason

71. • creativity
• passion to know
• application of knowledge
• inquiry
• seeing patterns
• posing and answering questions
• understanding the world
• acquiring knowledge
Learning • curiosity
• finding and solving problems
• making something
• understanding something you previously didn’t
understand
• making connections
• changing your perspective on something
• synthesizing ideas
• adding new knowledge

72. Learning
Which of these do we
assess?

73. • creativity
• passion to know
• application of knowledge
• inquiry
• seeing patterns
• posing and answering questions
• understanding the world
• acquiring knowledge
Learning • curiosity
• finding and solving problems
• making something
• understanding something you previously didn’t
understand
• making connections
• changing your perspective on something
• synthesizing ideas
• adding new knowledge

74. Make no mistake, we
Learning define learning by what
we assess

75. But remember...
Learning
If we do not find ways to
measure what we value,
we will value what we
measure.

76. Learning Today

77. Today “Triple A” Learning

78. Anytime,
Today Anywhere,
Anyone

79. Today

80. Today

81. Today Two billion predators

82. Today Two billion teachers

83. Today

84. Today

85. Today Learning is...

86. Today ...Mobile

87. Today

88. Today

89. Today ...Networked

90. Today

91. Today

92. Today

93. Today ...Global

94. Today

95. Today
99.9% Strangers

96. Repeat:
Today “I want to be found by
strangers on the Internet.”

97. Today ...Collaborative

98. Today

99. Today

100. Today ...Self-Directed

101. Today

102. Today ...Authentic

103. Today

104. Today ...Transparent

105. Today

106. Today

107. Today Learning is Personal
(not personalized)

108. New Literacies

109. Literacy
National Council
Teachers of English

110. Literacy
Develop proficiency with
the tools of technology

111. Build relationships with
Literacy
others to pose and solve
problems collaboratively
and cross-culturally

112. Design and share
Literacy
information for global
communities to meet a
variety of purposes

113. Manage, analyze and
Literacy
synthesize multiple
streams of simultaneous
information

114. Create, critique, analyze,
Literacy and evaluate multi-media
texts

115. Attend to the ethical
Literacy
responsibilities required
by these complex
environments

116. • Develop proficiency with the tools of
technology
• Build relationships with others to pose
and solve problems collaboratively and
cross-culturally
• Design and share information for global
communities to meet a variety of
Literacy purposes
• Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple
streams of simultaneous information
• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate
multi-media texts
• Attend to the ethical responsibilities
required by these complex environments

117. • Develop proficiency with the tools of
technology
• Build relationships with others to pose
and solve problems collaboratively and
cross-culturally
• Design and share information for global
Literacy Are You Literate?
communities to meet a variety of
purposes
• Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple
streams of simultaneous information
• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate
multi-media texts
• Attend to the ethical responsibilities
required by these complex environments

118. Literacy “Network Literacy”

119. Transparency
Balance
Literacy Safety
Connection
More...

120. Our
Work So...

121. What
Our
Work
Changes?

122. Our What do we have to
Work “unlearn?”

123. Our Our challenges...
Work

124. Our Our challenges...
Work Our opportunities.

125. Our Old school?
Work

126. Our Old school?
Work Or BOLD school?

127. Our
Work Bold = Doing Both

128. Inquiry
Authentic
Our Digital
Work Bold =
Networked
Collaborative
Personal

129. Our
Work Bold = Teacher as Learner

130. Our
Work Bold = Not Waiting

131. Our
Work Bold = Speaking Out

132. “In times of change, learners
inherit the Earth, while the learned
find themselves beautifully
equipped to deal with a world that
no longer exists.”
Eric Hoffer

133. THANKS!
Will Richardson
willrichardson.com
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