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

From the advent of the web in the mid-1990s, newspaper circulation steadily declined from over 60 million to approximately 40 million (Ahrens, 2009; Newspaper Association of America, 2011).

We have to ask our teachers to learn in different ways than how they learned in their high schools and colleges in order to leverage the power of modern networks, not only for their own personal learning but to better deliver these new skills and literacies to the students in their classrooms.

The definition of educational leader needs to shift from the person with the title to the person with the vision.

It means that static textbooks that are outdated the day they are printed can be replaced with up-to-date information online that is continuously refreshed and renewed.

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

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.

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.

“learning networks”? We mean the rich set of connections each of us can make to people in both our online and offline worlds who can help us with our learning pursuits.