TEDxNYED - Will Richardson - 03/05/2011

A parent of two middle school-aged children, Will Richardson has been blogging about the intersection of social online learning networks and education for the past 10 years at Weblogg-ed.com. He is a former public school educator for 22 years, and is a co-founder of Powerful Learning Practice, a unique long-term, job-embedded professional development program that has mentored over 3,500 teachers worldwide in the last four years.

[@pinoyjay]

Wow ! His daughter play Don't Stop Believing by Journey on piano

[@robletcher]

I have only one issue with any of this. When I was a first year (heck, even a second or third year) teacher, I would have LOVED to have someone in my earbud helping me out. That's called mentoring and it wouldn't suck in all cases.

[@wendygordon2616]

agreed!

[@MacSteve75]

@MrHumphrey259 The only validity your argument holds is with kids in the upper echelon of academics and with those kids with well-developed IEPs. The vast majority of the kids in the middle are not getting the education they need with a "teaching to the test" approach because the material and focus on the "test" is for primarily theoretical mathematics and literature-based reading--we are teaching an outmoded system. The grass is greener on the other side, because the grass is dead on this side.

[@mamacorin]

Have you seen "Making the Choice: When Typical School Doesn't Fit Your Atypical Child"? You can find it on the Gifted Homeschoolers website. It's right in line with your arguments.

[@Skygerobrian]

The biggest mistake music teachers make is under-challenging their students. "Oh there not ready for X. " .. If you give them X and they like it then they will get ready and do very well.

[@BrandonIrwinPhD]

Will is framing the new paradigm as "different" vs. "better", but it seems to me that different IS better. Perhaps it could be more adequately be described as a shift from "product-based" to "process-based"?

[@JeffMozdzierz]

Wow! Will this is the best presentation you have EVER delivered. It was very motivational. I what I would like next are some practical help on making schools different

[@mgozaydin]

I look at statistics.
Yes some students are raised very good.
What is the percentage. I claim 4 % .
Then I say public education is failing

[@missmollystoys7512]

Everything he points out here is the very reason why homeschooling is booming.

[@cybrarianliz]

Great talk, Will. It is a daunting task to prepare 21C global citizens from an institution mired in 20th century pedagogy.

[@bormann83]

I have felt this way since day one when I started teaching. Heck, even when I was in school.

[@shtm93]

This is amazing. This is something I, as a 17 year old student, can relate to. It's such an important issue. This is something I 'm passionate about .

[@51295monk]

gosh - it's even better the 3rd time you watch it.. thanks Will.

[@roidzmaster525]

yeah yeah yeah
Waffle on mate! Different how? Be specific.

[@paulfuller75]

Powerful stuff. Thanks for your inspiration Will.

[@TheAnnaFisher]

GENIUS! ONE LOVE

[@bettytsapelas3896]

I"m a teacher, and totally agree!!

[@carmenmunoz-rivera6884]

I love this man!