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The Divided Stories of Education Reform, Personal Cognitive Revolutions, and New Superheroes

A few months ago I interviewed John Taylor Gatto for my “Future of Education” interview series. From 1989-1991 Mr. Gatto was recognized as the New York City teacher of the year, as well in 1991 as the New York State teacher of the year. In the summer of 1991 he retired abrubptly, and in a very public way: in an op-ed piece published… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on November 5, 2010 at 1:59pm — No Comments

This Week's Live and Interactive Webinars in Elluminate

Below are this week's public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org, the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate.

The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile. Event recordings are posted and available after the events if you aren't able to attend them live. If you are… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on July 10, 2010 at 10:14pm — No Comments

Live and Interactive Events This Week

Below are this week's public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org, the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. This post has the live links for each session (which are left out of the emails in order to avoid spam filters),

The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on July 5, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

New Ning Plans: The Good, The Bad, and the Unknown

As they had promised, today Ning announced a new strategy for their host-your-own social networking service. The following notes are from my reading of the blog announcement, the similar announcement page, and the new FAQ. They are not definitive and are subject… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on May 4, 2010 at 3:16pm — No Comments

Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education

A moment of extreme clarity became an obsession for me last week. A session that I had prepared for the IL-TCE conference went from "Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom" to "Why Web 2.0 Is Important to the Future of Education." Then, as PowerPoint fever gripped me (OpenOffice.org Impress, actually), moving slides around as though they were puzzle pieces finally coming together correctly, I found my thoughts coalescing toward a bold conclusion and… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on March 5, 2008 at 8:00am — 11 Comments

Report on the Classroom 2.0 LIVE Workshop in San Francisco

This past Friday and Saturday we held the first ever "Classroom 2.0

LIVE" workshop in San Francisco, California. I've been trying to make

as many notes as I can about this event because I think the format of a

collaboratively-built workshop around the topic of Web 2.0 in education

has such potential, and I am anxious to do more of these and to keep

improving them. I apologize in advance for the length of the post--for

those of you who are interested, the detail may… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on February 7, 2008 at 6:53pm — 10 Comments

Guide to Standardized Tagging for Forum Posts

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Added by Steve Hargadon on September 24, 2007 at 7:03am — 23 Comments

Anastasia Goodstein on Totally Wired Teens

Anastasia Goodstein, the author of…

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Added by Steve Hargadon on August 1, 2007 at 8:27pm — No Comments

The P.E. Geek: Boys, Sports, and ... Wikis?

Kristian Still teaches 16 - 19 year old young men in a sports course at Tauton's College

in the UK, which is designed to encourage male learners to go on to

higher or extended education. The course uses their interest in sports

to help them stay engaged and pursue additional… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on July 31, 2007 at 11:58am — 2 Comments

Feed for All Forum Discussions and Replies

If you want to track every forum discussion and all the comments that are posted on Classroom 2.0, you can use this URL:

http://classroom20.ning.com/forum/topic/list?feed=yes&sort=mostRecent&xn_auth=no

link

If you need help understanding how to use a feed reader, you can watch… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on July 8, 2007 at 9:11am — 6 Comments

Helping to Understand Social Networking: Danah Boyd

As

more and more we are seeing social networking for the huge phenomenon

that it is, and as educators are beginning to see the value of social

networking in education (for both student and teachers--especially

professional development), it is worth getting to know Danah Boyd. Danah is a PhD candidate at the… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on July 3, 2007 at 3:02pm — No Comments

Ben Wilkoff 's Academy of Discovery (School 2.0, Part 11)

For months, I've been listening to this guy who records himself talking in the car (and no, it's not Kevin Honeycutt!). He calls his recording series and blog "Discourses

about Discourse," and most of them are discussions with himself about

his attempts to implement "School 2.0:" his use of the tools of the web

in his classroom, how his students are responding, what feedback he… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on July 3, 2007 at 1:38pm — No Comments

Feedback to US Secretary of Education on Technology in Education

For those in the U.S., Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has asked for ideas on the integration of technology in education. There is a form on the ed.gov site, but no ability to dialog or even leave your contact information if you fill it out. Therefore, I have created a forum thread for each of Secretary Spellings' questions, and propose that we discuss them here and invite her office to view the dialog on this website and even participate.

This is a terrific… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on June 8, 2007 at 4:07pm — 1 Comment

How to Upload TeacherTube Video to Classroom 2.0

Adapted from Phil McCluskey at Ning:

Go to the video that you want to use on TeacherTube. Then look at the "page source" information for the page (in Firefox, View --> Page Source).

When you view the source of the page you get a lot a lot of gobbledy-gook. Look for some code like this:

<embed src="…

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Added by Steve Hargadon on May 29, 2007 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

Tim O'Reilly on Web 2.0 and Education

(Cross posted from www.SteveHargadon.com)

"I think we're in--in a lot of ways--a period of the most profound

reinvention of ...education and how people need to learn since the

invention of literacy."

Tim O'Reilly is the founder of… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on May 1, 2007 at 10:58am — 3 Comments

The Web 2.0 and School 2.0 Connection

I gave the keynote address to the CVCUE meeting

in Fresno this past Saturday, and prepared a presentation on why Web

2.0 is going to be so important to education. When I was driving home I

made a connection that I hadn't fully made before: that the transition

between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is very similar, if not almost… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on April 25, 2007 at 1:02am — 8 Comments

Web 2.0: A Personal Learning Renaissance

(Cross-posted on www.SteveHargadon.com)

Yesterday, on the Classroom 2.0 social network, Elizabeth Davis posted:

"Following and reading blogs, participating in ning, contributing to wikis,

writing in my blog, I haven't thought… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on April 17, 2007 at 11:15am — 3 Comments

Educational Blogger Conference on June 23rd in Atlanta

Edubloggercon2007

– This first-ever, international, all-day “meetup” of educational

bloggers will take place on Saturday, June 23rd, at the Georgia World

Conference Center in Atlanta just before the start of NECC.

All are invited–whether you yourself blog, are just an educational blog reader,

or even just want to hang out with an interesting group of people. The

event is free, and you can indicate that…

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Added by Steve Hargadon on April 13, 2007 at 12:14pm — No Comments

Interview with Gina Bianchini from Ning

(Cross-post from www.SteveHargadon.com)

Gina Bianchini is the co-founder and CEO of Ning, the "do-it-yourself" social networking site. Gina is no ivory-tower

entrepreneur--she is an active participant herself in several Ning

networks, and she demonstrates her passion (and her hands-on style) in

this fun interview. We… Continue

Added by Steve Hargadon on April 13, 2007 at 10:29am — No Comments

Amazing, Amazing Use of an Old Computer

(Cross-post from www.SteveHargadon.com)

I'm

having an incredible brainstorm about used computers and homeless

shelters, emergency shelters, low-income housing units, schools, etc.

This is our kitchen computer. Actually, it's just the monitor and our small

stereo. The computer is below, and pictured…

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Added by Steve Hargadon on April 13, 2007 at 12:34am — 3 Comments