I have certainly been looking forward to this conference. It seems that 99% of the ideas that I try to express about what and how we teach and learning point to this one thing — ubiquitous access to networked digital information. I believe that a computer at every child’s desk is as essential to making them ready for the 21st century as the textbook was to my classrooms of the 1950s and ’60s. It’s what information is today. It glows and grows and reshapes itself in so many ways. It stands still and it moves, and it is totally under our control, both individually and in mass. It comes from all over the world and beyond through the networks and it is overwhelming. All of this has about as much to do with textbooks as Cuneiform had to do with my learning — and if you don’t know what Cuneiform is, point taken.
Today, I’ll be talking about Web 1.0 and the changes that it demands in our notions of literacy for the twenty-first century and also Web 2.0 and the further changes that have occurred to the nature of our information landscape. You’ll find the online handouts for my keynote address at:
My afternoon session on Web 2.0 are supported at:
I’ll also be facilitating a roundtable tomorrow and will likely offer some wiki pages to record this conversation and its conclusions. They will be linked here at that time.
Tuesday Roundtable
I have the opportunity today of facilitating a roundtable discussion on issues that have already been raised at the conference and perhaps some that have not. I would like for this conversation to extende beyond the time and the space of this conference event, by using a wiki that might be used after the session is over and by people who are not even at the conference. To participate, click this link.
