Hintonblogger

I recently was reading through a backlog of Will Richardson's posts and came across one that struck a cord that I felt I needed to express.

His post about his NECC workshop, titled Empowering Practice: Leveraging the Read/Write Web for Professional Growth, highlights in his approach from applying Read/Write Web concepts to classroom practice towards a greater emphasis on professional practice among educators.

I have been in my current position (Instructional Technologist) for a year now, and am very grateful to my school district (Gilbert Public Schools in Arizona) for the opportunity to attend NECC. The whole conference opened my eyes to a different paradigm of learning and to consider that the student perspective, with the advent of technology, might really have shifted effective educational techniques more than I had been willing to admit. The sessions I attended not only helped expose my to that paradigm, but also provided some potential short-term actions I could do to help begin meeting the challenge of educating today's students, who are truly digital natives.