With the advent of a Web were we can read (consume) AND write (create and collaborate), much of what we once thought to be true about learning and teaching is quickly changing. As we are able to connect more easily to a wide variety of people and ideas and pieces of content, the ways in which we find, assess, and organize information are becoming more and more complex. New Web 2.0 tools like blogs, wikis, social bookmarks and others have huge implications for our classrooms regarding both learning and literacy. This page will point to resources to further explore these changes.
Will's Links
- Weblogg-ed.com
- My Weblog
- Bloglines
- My public Bloglines subscriptions.
- del.icio.us
- My del.icio.us bookmarks.
- Ed Tech Coast to Coast Podcast
- A semi-regular podcast that I take part in.
Connective Learning Reading /Viewing List
Connective learning is based on the idea that we learn through our network of connections to people and content, and that the Web is creating all sorts of new potential connections for each one of us.
- Small Pieces Loosely Joined--David Weinberger
- Just from a Web philosophy standpoint, this is a great place to start. It really provides a great deal of context in terms of how the Web is evolving and what that means for us humans. Not education specific, but all sorts of connections.
- Free Culture--Lawrence Lessig
- Lessig is my hero at the moment. I've seen him speak three times and I just find his ideas and vision to be amazing. He's the person behind Creative Commons which is as good an idea as I've seen in a long time. This book made me see many things in a totally different way. Best part is it's free online.
- Connectivism--George Siemens
- This essay describes a new theory of learning for a digital age. Personally, the idea that learning is "a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources" makes a lot of sense since it parallels my own experience in this space over the last four years.
- We the Media--Dan Gillmor
- I have a journalism background, so maybe this book appeals to me more than to others. But these changes are already being felt in journalism, politics and business (we'll get there eventually) and this book does such a great job of describing the effects in media. And guess what? It's free too.
- The World is Flat--Thomas Friedman
- I actually like this book less and less as time passes because I think Friedman is capitalizing (and overusing) an easily accessible metaphor, and in doing so, I think he makes his argument a bit too lopsided. I've read much since that tempers the picture he paints. Nonetheless, the general idea that our world is changing in large part due to the technologies that connect us is an important one. And he does make that idea very accessible in this book.
- bglogging--Barbara Ganley
- There are many really good ed bloggers out there that I love to read, but if you really want to cut to the chase, Barbara's blog is the place to start, I think. No one that I have found writes more eloquently and with more synthesis than she, and I really love it when my Bloglines account shows a new post on her site. She's one of the few bloggers whose content I don't read in Bloglines because I just find it more engaging to do it at her blog.
- OL Daily--Stephen Downes
- Stephen is a pretty amazing thinker about these technologies, and this article in Educause and his daily wrapup of interesting links should both be required reading by anyone seriously trying to understand the Read/Write Web.
- A Whole New Mind--Daniel Pink
- As Pink says, our the relevance of what we do will be based on how we answer the following three quesitons:
1. Can someone overseas do it cheaper?
2. Can a computer do it faster?
3. Am I offering something that satisfies the nonmaterial, transcendent desires of an abundant age?
Must reading to those who want to figure out how to best respond to the "flat world" that Thomas Friedman writes about. - Connectivism Presentation
- This is a presentation done in Articulate by George Seimens which goes into depth about the idea of Connectivism as it relates to learning.
Other Relevant Reading List
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- Book--Weblogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools that are Transforming Classrooms
- My upcoming book on the use of Web 2.0 tools in the classroom
- "Tech Tools for Learning"--Access Learning (Jan. 2006)
- An overview with accompanying links of the tools of the Read/Write Web.
- "An Educator's Guide to the Read/Write Web"--Educational Leadership (Dec. 2005)
- An overview of the tools and the changes they are bringing about for educators.
- "What's a Wiki? A Powerful Collaborative Tool for Teaching and Learning. That's What!"--Multimedia and Internet @ Schools (Nov. 2005)
- Primer on wikis in schools.
- "Blog Revolution: Expanding classroom horizons with Web logs." --Technology and Learning Magazine (Oct.. 2005)
- Why blogs are still the most important tool of the Read/Write Web.
- "New Jersey High School Learns the ABCs of Blogging,"--T.H.E. Journal (June 2005)
- How I've used blogs at my school
- "The ABCs of RSS."--Technology and Learning Magazine (May 2005)
- A primer on using RSS in the classroom.
- "Blogging and RSS: The 'What's It?' and 'How To' of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators,"--Multimedia and Internet @ Schools (Jan. 2004)
- An overview of blogs and RSS in the classroom.
- "Blogging On."--Prinicipal Leadership (Nov. 2003)
- Blogging overview.
- "Weblogs: Internet Publishing Made Easy," --Desien (Aug. 2003)
- Another overview.
- "Web Logs in the English Classroom: More Than Just Chat"--English Journal (Sept. 2003)
- Overview specifically for English teachers.
Upcoming Presentations
This is an RSS feed of the presentations I have scheduled. If you'd like more information on having me speak to your group just e-mail me at weblogged@gmail.com
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