It means that static textbooks that are outdated the day they are printed can be replaced with up-to-date information online that is continuously refreshed and renewed.

It means that teachers’ professional learning will take place in online connected spaces that span the globe.

We need, first, to take charge of our own learning, and next, help others take charge of their own learning. We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something that is provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves. It is time, in other words, that we change our attitude toward learning

That means schools will need to embrace a form of learning that is fundamentally different from the one they have known.

prepared. We have to introduce our kids to a whole new method of learning that is less about memorizing and “doing their own work” and more about content creation and collaborating with others, and doing so in the context of their passions.

Learning networks are very different both in form and purpose in that we instead connect with people we don’t already know—helpful strangers who share our passion for a particular topic.

They tried to take the same content, produced by the same people, in the same ways, and get subscribers and advertisers to pay for it on the web in a traditional model.

Newspapers continued to try to do what they had always done—in effect, trying to adapt the Internet to them.

Today, according to Siemens (2007), “learning is a network formation process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources.”