Garth and I are sitting here at an AALT conference listening to Mr. Richardson (Dr.) talking about the change that is needed in education.  Will has written several important books including Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms and Personal Learning Networks.  Will is doing a great job of setting up how technology can really help expand education past “Jeopardy-like questioning”. 

The crux of Will’s argument revolves around allowing students to use everyone and everything at their disposal to find passion in learning.  He is also doing a great job of showing all of the knowledge and skills that are developed through students being freed to learn through what they are passionate about.

Will just asked a great question, “Do our kids really need everything we put in their heads?”  Are we creating learners or the learned?  **Since I am writing in real-time, this post may seem a bit jagged.  Will has moved onto a discussion about real ways to change our scope and vision of education in the classroom.  Great look at how the Web has created a world of abundance and has truly changed the access to information. 

I will add more to the post later when I have time to sit and reflect with Garth.