Jeff Jarvis argues that in today’s media landscape, everybody is a network, and that networks are now about sharing, openness, and fluid participation rather than control and one-way distribution. This has powerful implications for education, where schools remain largely static, closed, and control-oriented, and where both teachers and students rarely get to develop true network literacy or practice working in distributed, collaborative environments.

We get the chance to address 49 Superintendents in Upstate NY and want to show them the power and potential of the Read/Write Web, what teachers and students are already doing, and the obstacles we need to discuss. If you had 90 minutes with this group, what one key challenge or message would you focus on?

Scott Leslie’s “Matrix of Some Blog Uses in Education” has been remixed into an interactive drag and drop tool that can help faculty and others brainstorm different ways to use blogs as an activity and process, not just an end product.

So here we go…let’s REALLY get around this messy job of educating our kids by just legislating away school access to not only MySpace…

We’re finding it difficult to keep up with the edblogosphere, and the resulting silence feels strangely appealing. Maybe the answer isn’t trying to read and write more, but focusing on deeper, more meaningful engagement instead of adding to the overload.

Dear Tess and Tucker, For most of your young lives, you’ve heard your mom and we occasionally talk about your futures by saying that…

Interesting to use a post on distributed conversations to show how distributed conversations work. But we think it’s informative. Alan started this process description,…

Ok, look. We know we’re probably just beating our head against a wall here, but this kind of article really, really bothers us: “On…

Yesterday as we were driving our seven-year old daughter home from her gymnastics class she ominously announced that she wasn’t going back to school.…

From the “Throwing it Out There to See What Sticks Department” here are some very raw thoughts about the various types of Weblog posts…