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Will Richardson says, “More and more, though, as I look at my own kids and try to make sense what’s going to make them successful, I care less and less about a particular teacher’s content expertise and more about whether that person is a master learner, one from whom Tess or Tucker can get the skills and literacies to make sense of learning in every context, new and old. What I want are master learners, [...]

Last Thursday morning I traveled to Vancouver to speak with Mark Bricklin, a reporter for the Vail Daily (Vail, Colorado), who was covering elements of the 2010 Winter Games for the newspaper. Okay, I didn’t really go there in person but used Skype to transport two classrooms of students to the Media Press Center. The original plan was to contact Mark from one of the venues but a wireless connection was not reliable for this [...]