Will Richardson


Will Richardson is an author and speaker on educational technology. He has many published works, including the book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, and the edublog Weblogg-ed which he wrote from 2001 to 2011. Richardson is also active on the web; he has both a Twitter account and YouTube channel.
Richardson co-founded Modern Learner Media and is co-publisher of ModernLearners.com. He also co-founded Change School, an online learning resource for educators. Richardson is a founding partner of Connective Learning, LLC. He promotes the implementation of Read/Write technologies in K-12 classrooms. He is also an advocate for school reform which encourages the integration of technology in learning. He was also named to the National Advisory Board for the George Lucas Educational Foundation. Along with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, he co-founded Powerful Learning Practice, a company that delivers job-embedded, year-long professional development to schools worldwide around the pedagogies of Web 2.0 tools.
District Administration magazine has published a quarterly column by Richardson titled "The Online Edge".
Richardson has been part of a panel presentation at the 2006 Milken Global Conference and has given presentations all over the world.

Biography

Richardson's bio for a February 2007 conference noted that "Will lives along the Delaware River in Western New Jersey with his wife Wendy and his children Tess and Tucker, all of whom are bloggers."
Formerly a teacher at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, New Jersey, Richardson was recognized for his use of blogs in the classroom as a "trendsetter in education" in 2003 by The New York Times. In 2017, Forbes named Richardson one of the top five edupreneur voices to follow.

Education

Books