1. Communicate and Connect:
Writing in a Networked World
Will Richardson
will@willrichardson.com
willrichardson.com
@willrich45
bit.ly/Qd88vy

2. Writing Outlets for This Session:
Today’sMeet chat:
todaysmeet.com/ncte12cnc
Google Doc:
bit.ly/ncte12cnc
Anything else (photos, vids, Tweets, etc.):
#nctecnc12
MGMGrand05

3. ?

4. What is the future of writing?

5. Write/discuss

9. Jacob Arnott
14-year old Editor in Chief

10. New realities

11. CHANGE

12. Scarcity

13. ABUNDANCE

14. 600,000 Apps
2.5 Billion People
2 Trillion Webpages
4.5 Years of YouTube video per minute
16,000 Tweets per second*
Etc...
*Japan’s 2012 New Years Celebration

15. “Writers are everywhere.”
Kathleen Blake Yancey

16. “Writers are everywhere.”
(Audiences are everywhere, too)
Kathleen Blake Yancey

17. Writers are networked.

19. This is really good news.

20. This is really challenging news.

21. What doesn’t change about writing?

22. Clear
Concise
Engaging
Etc...

24. Common Core

26. The idea...is to reduce writing "opinion untethered to
evidence" and "decontextualized" writing—writing
not based on the reading of a text—in favor of
writing that requires students to read, comprehend,
and respond to text, grounding their interpretations
in evidence found there. That shift reflects what
young people can expect in college and work.

27. Reading to promote writing,
writing to develop reading.

28. But, what DOES change?

29. What is now
UNcommon
about writing?

30. NCTE Literacies

31. Literate 21st Century readers and writers must:
• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
• Build relationships with others to pose and solve
problems collaboratively and cross-culturally
• Design and share information for global
communities to meet a variety of purposes
• Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of
simultaneous information
• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media
texts
• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by
these complex environments

32. “Design and share information
for global communities
to meet a variety of purposes.”

33. “Designing” writing

34. In a networked world,
writing must be authentic.

35. Real purposes

36. Real purposes
Real audiences

37. Real purposes
Real audiences
Original ideas

45. More?

46. “Design and share information
for global communities
to meet a variety of purposes.”

47. “Sharing” writing

48. In a networked world,
writing must be transparent.

51. My six-year-olds ARE blogging for millions of
strangers, many of whom take the time to help them
learn. “Strangers” have taken the time to comment, to
encourage and to help my students learn many things
that I could never have taught them on my own.

54. In a networked world,
writing must be connected.

55. “Designed” for connections.

56. tl;dr

58. “Linked” for connections.

59. Links

60. “Comment-able” for connections.

61. Publishing is now a midpoint,
not an endpoint.

66. Writing might be collaborative

70. What else?

71. Let’s write

72. How do we prepare our students to
write effectively in environments that
don’t yet exist?

73. Now Tweet your anwer!
#ncte12cnc

74. Thanks!
will@willrichardson.com
@willrich45
willrichardson.com

75. Credits:
Writing in Journal: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lecates/307250887/sizes/o/in/photostream/
In 60 Seconds: http://www.socialnomics.net/2011/12/28/infographic-every-60-seconds-on-the-web/
Focus Infographic: http://www.bestinfographics.info/focus-age-distraction/
of purposes.”