Guest Commentary: It's an Amazing Time to be a Learner

"Whether it’s the two billion teachers we can now connect to on the Web, the myriad of entertaining and at the same time educational video games we can play with our friends (or by ourselves), or the potential to answer almost any question we can pose through a few keystrokes on the phones in our pockets, we live at a moment of ubiquitous learning, one few of our ancestors could have imagined. It’s a moment that in many ways we ourselves are still struggling to make sense of, struggling to imagine the endless possibilities that we find ourselves swimming in."
That's why Will Richardson, author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for the Classroom, says that "it’s an amazing time to be a learner."
It an article adapted from the upcoming book Spotlight on Technology in Education (Harvard Education Press), Richardson says today's students are "getting used to learning what they want to learn, when they want to learn it, with whom they want to learn it, and they’re wondering why they can’t do more of that in school."
Click here to read his entire post.