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.

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[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.

[OscHol1]

Really great speech! Awesome!

[Brandon Irwin]

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"?

[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

[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 .

[Corin Goodwin]

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.