Rebora, A. (2010, October 11). Change agent. Education Week, 04(1), Retrieved from http://www.edweek.org/tsb/articles/2010/10/12/01richardson.h04.html?cmp=clp-edweek&intc=bs&sms_ss=delicious&at_xt=4cb7dc75d0303b73,0
Change Agent
The interview with Will Richardson repeats what many have thought and most definitely have said. There needs to be a reformation in the classrooms. Will Richardson has found that the reformation of school must integrate web tools. For the web tools to be integrated into the classrooms they must be used and managed by the instructors. The instructor must have a web presence to keep up with latest methods of instruction and current tools for learning. Will Richardson stresses that instructors must stay up to date with web 2.0 to teach their students how to leave a positive online footprint. The biggest problem he states is the shift. The greatest thing that can be done to help this shift is a model to help shift and create new cultures. Brenda McCombs' article Creating A Collaborative Culture lays it out real well when she prompts professional development and web 2.0 tools. Ultimately the goal is to create a comprehensively broad, technical, and global student so as to make way for a well rounded society. This must be certain in schools for students to excel later on in life. Richardson also emphasizes learning and how it's very fluid. It's reasonable to think that web 2.0 can satisfy the many modes of student learning.
Question 1.) How will the methods of assessment change in the next three decades? I believe the method of attaining the results and delivery of the assessments will change much with Web 3.0 on the horizon. Maybe by then we will be at Web 4.0. Either way I still believe there will be standardized testing and bell curves.
Question 2.) Must we embrace the web? That is a definite yes. It's not going away and it will only get more semantic. The web is expected and not being on the web is equivalent as to not having a phone line. The web is a measurable tool and with it the youth must be taught how to navigate through all the clutter to find what they need and to not misuse or get taken advantage of by the web. The culture of digital information must be embraced so as to not get left behind in the dust.
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