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 * Will Richardson**


 * Key questions:**

What do Web connections and technologies change more: reading or writing? What has changed in your own reading and writing because of your use of the Web? How do these shifts create opportunities for learning?


 * The Read/Write Web**

A place where we can not only consume information easily but we can write and publish information as well. A place that is driven by the link (hypertext) which in and of itself changes the nature of reading and writing.


 * Connective Reading**

--Reading interactively, with an intent to respond and to begin or add to the conversation.
 * Reading blogs: "[|Affordances & Constraints: Reflections on the Value of Read Write Technology and the Future of Public Education]" (Chris Sessums)

--Reading as an editor
 * [|Wikipedia]

--Reading for relevance and interest
 * [|RSS] (Google Reader)
 * The way we read changes. We scan, we search for main ideas, and we make decisions about the content we read.

--Reading nomadically
 * [|Reading in hypertext environments] is not the same as reading linear text (Edubloggers as Prisoners of the Nation State, Stephen Downes)
 * "[|Scan this Book]"

--Reading multimedia
 * "[|A Tank of Gas]"


 * Connective Writing**

"In the analog world, we assessed writing as a container, by what it held. In the digital world, we assess it's value by where it takes us."--David Weinberger

Changing notion of what it means to "write." Not simply to communicate, but to connect through the ability to link. Linking is the fundamental tool of [|network creation]. (Touchgraph)

In hypertext, transparent environments, we write for different purposes:
 * Writing to participate in relevant conversations with engaged communities
 * Writing to create identity
 * Writing to archive our thinking and learning
 * Writing to connect...to other learners and teachers in collaborative ways
 * Writing to reflect
 * Writing to teach what we know (or think that we know)
 * Writing to learn

Connective Writing Is...

1. Writing that is inspired by reading and is therefore a response to an idea or a set of ideas or conversations. 2. Writing that synthesizes those ideas and remixes them in some way to make them our own and is published to potentially wide audiences. 3. Writing that then becomes a part of a larger negotiation of a truth or knowledge that is evolving in the larger network. 4. Writing that is written with the expectation that it too will be taken and remixed by others into their own truths by this continuous process of reading, thinking, writing (and linking), publishing and reading some more.


 * Connective Reading and Writing Change the Way we Learn**

Learning is not about acquiring knowledge as much as it is about building networks. ("Connectivism" as articulated by [|George Siemens].) Connective learning is much different from classroom learning, and that is a pressure point right now...our kids are beginning to connect without us.

And this is all still changing:
 * [|Chatcasts]
 * [|Twitter]