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.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• TEDxNYED
• education
• innovation

[cybrarianliz]

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

[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 .

[OscHol1]

Really great speech! Awesome!

[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.

[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.

[MrHumphrey259]

As a high school teacher in MA, I agree. But, this video still assumes different is "better". This presentation is still under the impression that public education is failing as a whole, when it is not. Some of our students are flourishing in public schools; some schools can "teach to the test" and also create students who are inspired, informed and among the best in the world. Let us seek "different" while remembering that the grass is not always greener on the other side.

[bormann83]

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

[51295monk]

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

[dflyfamily]

Yes! thank you.