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Confessions of a Learning Revolutionary

Steve Hargadon

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This Is a Conversation

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Steve Hargadon’s Personal History of “Ed” Movements

  • Open Source in Education
    • Interview series that became FutureofEducation.com
  • Social Networking in Education (MySpace Era)
    • Classroom 2.0
    • Library 2.0
    • Teacher Librarian.org
    • 175,000 members
  • Web 2.0
    • Encyclopedia Britannica Article
  • “Massive” Online Meetings (pre-MOOC)
    • Global Education Conference
    • Library 2.0
    • Others
  • Education Unconferences
    • EduBloggerCon / Hack Education - 10 years
    • EdCamps and $1M

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Have They (or Others) Revolutionized Education?

Why Not?

(CQ)

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A Modest Proposal

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A Modest Proposal

(CQ)

Valuable

Not Valuable

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Agency <-> Institutional Cycle

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Agency <-> Institutional Cycle

How It Works

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Agency <-> Institutional Cycle

How It Works

Where Else Do You See It?

(CQ)

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Education & Learning

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Education & Learning

Let’s Try an Experiment: Stories

(CQ)

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Education & Learning

Let’s Try an Experiment: Stories

Conditions of Learning

(CQ)

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Education & Learning

Let’s Try an Experiment: Stories

Conditions of Learning

Are We Focused on Those Conditions?

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I Submit:

The Lesson That Schools Teach Best

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I Submit:

The Lesson That Schools Teach Best

A System of Intellectual Indoctrination,

not Intellectual Liberation

(liber = bark/free)

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H.L. Mencken

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda – a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make ‘good’ citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.

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A Call to Lead

(Seriously)

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A Call to Lead

(Seriously)

You Are not Just Shop Class 2.0

(Personal Opinion)

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A Call to Lead

(Seriously)

You Are not Just Shop Class 2.0

(Personal Opinion)

You Are the Guardians of Millenia-old Independent Intellectual Traditions

(PAUSE)

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A Call to Lead

(Seriously)

You Are not Just Shop Class 2.0

(Personal Opinion)

You Are the Guardians of Millennia-old Independent Intellectual Traditions

It’s You.

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Help Build This

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Steve Hargadon

steve@hargadon.com

http://www.stevehargadon.com�http://www.library20.com�http://www.teacherlibrarian.org�http://www.learningrevolution.com

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How Do We Break the Cycle?

  • Silicon Valley Strategy
  • Christensen’s Disruptive Innovation
  • Gandhi / Martin Luther King
  • 4th Turning (it breaks on its own, be ready)