Will Richardson with Scott McLeod at ISU

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WR: "If you're not feeling uncomfortable in education today, you're probably not paying attention."

WR: "About 80% of adolescents are participating in social networking, but the vast majority of them have no adult teaching them how to use them."

This video was done by a 12-year-old, who shows remarkable lack of ego, and a remarkable awareness of the fact that this video would be watched and responded to on YouTube. Did he believe that the best way to get the answers he was looking for was to post on YouTube? He got a number of very constructive and informative comments from people all over.

WR: We're moving toward a Passion-Based Learning model. We need to hook into the interests and passions of kids, and give them the tools and skills to explore, collaborate and produce.

WR: "If you are a newspaper right now, you're being killed by CraigsList."

Companies are employing people to monitor Twitter for references to their company or products. Want help from Best Buy? Twitter Twelpforce.

WR: "Politics is changing, business is changing, media are changing. What's not changing? Education?

Required Reading:

• http://www.macfound.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=lkLXJ8MQKrH&b=2024163&ct=6355221

Is the online predator threat overblown? Frontline video:

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/relationships/predators-bullies/predator-panic.html?play

If an employer Googles an applicant, and nothing comes up, they're going to ask, "What have you been doing with your life? Where's your evidence of collaboration, creativity, productivity?"

Wall Street Journal - Ebooks will change the way we read and write:

• http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123980920727621353.html

WR: After teaching a unit, ask the kids "What do you want to tell the world about what you just learned?" Then, publish online.

WR: The way we've done professional development for the last 40 years doesn't work. Stop basing PD on tools. We need to create a culture of learning among our teachers.

Diversity of ideas fosters critical thinking. How do we create intellectually diverse communities for our students?

Scott McLeod: We're living in an increasingly niche-fied environment. Brings us together in communities of interest, not of geography.

WR: It's not information overload, it's information overchoice.

WR: If you can't figure out who owns a website, and what their agenda is, you're not literate.

McLeod: Are the vast majority of educators information illiterate (in today's, not yesterday's, information environment)?

Technology and 21st Century Skills Rubric for Administrators

• http://bit.ly/ialead

ISTE/NETS for Administrators 2009

• http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForAdministrators/2009Standards/NETS_for_Administrators_2009.htm