10.0 : "What It All Means"

In Ch. 10 Richardson summarizes the primary takeaways and implications of the preceding material. My first question is whether he meant the last sentence of the chapter to be incomplete or if an error made it past the publishing team. On P. 155 in the section titled "Just the Beginning" the final paragraph (in my copy) reads "If you have come this far, I'm hoping you have a new box of tools and techniques to take full advantage of the opportunities this new Internet presents. Here is where the real learning,"... Yes, it ends with a comma, making me wonder how he was going to qualify his meaning for "real learning" before he ended with a verb like "begins". Of course, he continues to write prolifically, and I have a good sense of what he might say.

He asserts that the most important impact on education of the Read/Write Web will be the response of classroom teachers (p. 154), as he re-uses the word "classroom" in the sentence to apply to the context of the Web rather than the brick-and-mortar space, and in the following paragraphs breaks down what he means by saying that this new "classroom" requires a redefinition of what it means to teach:

• to connect content and people, modeling strategies of finding relevant and worthwhile content and using primary sources in the classroom, including people as primary sources
• to create content in the form of blogs, podcasts, wikis, and to create and sustain PLNs
• to collaborate with other teachers and with students
• to coach, modeling the skills that students need to be successful, helping to motivate them to strive for excellence
• to function as agents of change as the transparency induced by Web 2.0 use threatens the formerly dominant paradigm.