Steve+Hargadon

Steve Hargadon

"Dumbing us Down" - John Taylor Gallo

-learning taking place outside of the formal institutions - what do we bring in?

Used to cost a lot of money to publish something – now costs nothing! We in the position to produce text.

Web1.0 – researching, Web2.0 – contributing, collaborating, creating

Why create more content if there’s already great content out there?

We need to create more openness

MIT open courses - only version 1.0 b/c it's one way

There's value to an environment that cultivates collaboration and sharing - Steve H

Flex book - open textbook (1.0)

Do your kids invite people over to do things (participate) or watching things (i.e. movies)? Increasingly becoming more participatory

Amazon - what books do you buy? because of the description or the comments of the users?

experimenting, pioneering, listening, texting, learning, adapting.......will be value activities

Social networking -

educatioanl networking will become the framework for the educational experience


 * Social networking + LMS +live collaboration **

How well are we preparing students for this world? How prepared are we?

Data's valuable - we need to work together to figure out how to use the data

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