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Hacking Education -- Curated and Archived

On March 10th, 2009, Union Square Ventures put on a conference called Hacking Education. The theme of the conference was re-imagining how education should look in a web 2.0 world.

Arguably the best part of the conference was the lively discussion on twitter. However, in order to read that discussion via a normal twitter search one would have to scroll through over 60 pages of tweets. That's almost 2,000 tweets total!

This lens is a curated and archived collection of the tweets that contributed something of value to the conversation. These tweets are relatively unfiltered; every substantive tweet is included regardless of viewpoint. However, after weeding out the retweets, nonsense, and linkspam we now have a single page with a few hundred tweets rather than a few thousand.

Also, I've taken the liberty of grouping the tweets into rough categories to make the conversation easier to follow. I'm sure there are a few in one category that could just as easily be in another category, and that's ok; the categories are meant merely as a tool to make understanding easier.

Education Today

  • daveschappell: Why does edu talk always talk about children? We learn forever/all the time- how to 10x that? #hackedu
  • jonbischke: @daveschappell Amen. Peter Drucker: The #1 industry for the next 20 years is continuing education...of adults. #hackedu
  • opencontent: Rob Kalin: The cost of degrees is getting higher while their value is rapidly declining. #hackedu
  • daveschappell: Taking 4 years 'off' for 'education' seems terribly inefficient - so much could learn/create if interspersed with practice #hackedu
  • kprentiss: @kylemathews while starting your own company (as an education) is getting cheaper all the time, plus poss. of $ return #hackedu
  • opencontent: Perhaps we really need to help people learn that fun and happiness are not related to job prestige (though they imagine they are). #hackedu
  • opencontent: Alex Grodd: The driving force in the lives of school-age children is to fit in. It's also "cool" to rebel and be bad. Implications? #hackedu
  • opencontent: Mitch Resnick: People want to create; people want to have and express their own voice. "Smart" has more to do with "create." #hackedu
  • opencontent: Katie Salen: There's a fundamental tension between the idea of education and the idea of learning. Learning is a form of currency. #hackedu
  • opencontent: Steven Johnson: Learning how to be obsessed with things is super valuable. (One man's obsession is another's addiction.) #hackedu
  • zephoria: I'm worried that cases of people succeding outside the system skews people's sense of how hierarchical society still is. #hackedu
  • jaysbryant: This graphic http://tinyurl.com/bsw49e (expand) shows billions spent on education w/ no changes in test scores - time to rethink the process #hackedu
  • kprentiss: @zephoria can we use tech to source more "teachers" /volunteers in long tail to help those w/out tech? meetup meets teachforamerica #hackedu
  • Idit: #hackedu What's new is technology and tools AND infrastructure, people and purpose, a learning environment to "homeschooling the homeless."
  • ceonyc: We used to have Home, Church, School....now schools bear more responsibility w/o being endowed to support all that.-Salen/Rhoten #hackedu

    photo credit: Alfredo Hisa

Brilliant insights

  • opencontent: Sir Ken: a 3 yr old is not half a 6 yr old. #hackedu
  • Idit: Sir Ken, live short version of School Kills Children's Creativity (TED-06): "You can't understand education if you only use stats!" #hackedu
  • Idit: Many people in our session don't know how to express, connect and learn with Twitter. Just imagine millions "have-nots" out there. #hackedu
  • jeffjarvis: #hackedu Brad Burnham "the product is becoming the credential." A portfolio is a new diploma. And it never ends.
  • BradUSV: #hackedu Bing Gordon if parents used the same feedback loop as professors it would be a week before they shout look out for the truck
  • lawlesz: We need situations of learning, whether it will be a game, a lecture, a conversation, a moment of silence, a kiss, a smile, a dream #hackedu
  • DorianBenkoil: #hackedu students must be "re-educated" to feel empowered, too. Many don't realize the power they have - and the fear profs have of that
  • fredwilson: Jessie Shefrin: making is a kind of thinking and thinking is a kind of making #hackedu
  • ceonyc: We concede the idea that all vocations can be fulfilling too easily. We all have too narrow an idea of success. #hackedu
  • marziah: @csessums In a way a crashed economy is a good thing for higher ed, since it forces us to change and innovate. #hackedu
  • jonathanglick: @jerrymichalski #hackedu Important to remember that there are many styles of learning. It's possible/probable that some kids need *teachers*
  • jamesmarcusbach: RT @michaelbolton: "With every university degree you purchase, you get an optional free education." G.M. Weinberg #hackedu #edupunk
  • stylianosm: Ken Robinson: We must change the question "How intelligent are you" to "How are you intelligent?" #the_element #hackedu RT @chrislehmann

How should learning environments be structured?

  • opencontent: Steven Johnson: The most successful times of my life were when I had fallen in with a peer group where being smart was rewarded. #hackedu
  • opencontent: Jessie Shefrin: How do we create the conditions necessary for imaginative space? #hackedu
  • Idit: #hackedu What we need to do: we need to develop powerful alternative models to facilitate the revolution and transformation of education!
  • heif: #hackedu @fredwilson suggests new cult of group homeschooling
  • Idit: #hackedu Bing - Why are you looking for ONE definition for what education is? We ned MANY definitions, integrate balance among them
  • jonbischke: @opencontent Fantastic idea [homeschooling] but not viable for many socioeconomic groups. That's the challenge. #hackedu
  • daveschappell: What's your definition of well-educated? My first attempt - knowing how to learn and having encouragement to pursue you passions #hackedu
  • Idit: #hackedu Fred: a revolution with today's techn and socio-learning theories for "Home Schooling for Masses, not just those who have parents
  • jeffjarvis: #hackedu Certification can = success, satisfaction, approval, fame, money.
  • jeffjarvis: #hackedu What's the new framework for eduation (not institution, not top-down): game, creation, links...?
  • opencontent: Bing Gordon: Judge student work (assign grades) based on subscribers or downloads. 10,000 people read your article? You get an A. #hackedu
  • morganchrisp: #hackedu Importance of eclecticism (multi-specialization) to encourage integrative thinking
  • morganchrisp: #hackedu @kellyanncollins social currency can severely erode individuality. Especially in middle/high school. Long tail must exist.
  • underoak: @zephoria Excellent point on hierarchy. But some like @jritch take that concept and use it to redefine success. http://bit.ly/bHpQ (expand) #hackedu
  • jeffjarvis: #hackedu @heif decries - or frets about - the "metrification" of education. yes, we shouldn't replace tests with new numbers.
  • opencontent: Metrification of learning is scary, but society continues to need an efficient way of scaling high stakes decisions (e.g. hiring). #hackedu
  • rokali: #hackedu We should have tests that discover what people want to know, not need to know.
  • aburak: #hackedu metrification can work better when it's multi dimensional - what are YOU good at... Good games do that...
  • mickhagen: I am more than a test score. #hackedu
  • chrishughes2: what are the limits of 1 on 1 learning? or direct learning between a person and system/text? what important social skills are lost? #hackedu
  • opencontent: I'm not so interested in what we're "on the cusp" of being able to do - what can we get done today? Should I be more of a futurist? #hackedu
  • andrewparker: "Could the future of edu be conference-format schools? BarCamp for school (SchoolCamp)?" #hackedu
  • jeffjarvis: #hackedu Disaggregated, Distributed University: separating learning, certification, research, socialization. (#wwgd)
  • jeffjarvis: @heif asks whether schools shuld and have tried unconferences. Some yeses. Provost @davewiner. #hackedu
  • opencontent: Scott Heiferman: Has anyone every tried an "unconference" format for school? SchoolCamp, anyone? #hackedu
  • budtheteacher: @jeffjarvis: We've tried them. Kind of. They work. http://colearning.wikispaces.com #hackedu
  • mmparker: #hackedu Education has craziest tensions between econ. of scale and decentralization. Makes me think of James Scott's Seeing Like a State.
  • albertwenger: Kids like "hard fun" (Alan Kay) but that's different from "chocolate covered broccoli" #hackedu
  • morganchrisp: #hackedu As a student would like to see more interesting/insightful quantitative tests that inform/benefit student more than administration.
  • gjb: @albertwenger actually, "hard fun" originated with Seymour Papert, but admittedly there's been substantial crosstalk betw SP & AK #hackedu
  • foes4sports: "Hard fun" is an amazingly succinct goal for teachers! #hackedu
  • Idit: @gjb #hackedu see my article in Telemedium Journal of Media Literacy (2002); "Hard Fun: The Essence of Good Games AND Good Education"
  • milara: #hackedu Part of changing how we learn may mean pulling down barriers between knowledge professions. Journalists, teachers, researchers...
  • morganchrisp: I'd like to see more hybrid programs. Departments isolate themselves within universities, discouraging cross-disciplinary thinking. #hackedu
  • jerrymichalski: #hackedu we need to stop thinking of classrooms and libraries as the only places learning happens. & a PhD isn't needed to teach/coach
  • jonbischke: @edupirate The "open credit" idea you blogged last week is very powerful. Hoping it is discussed this afternoon at #hackedu
  • BillSeitz: @opencontent I think ProjectBasedLearning might come closed to UnConference #hackedu
  • morganchrisp: My online entrepreneurship class has a larger % of grade on multiple choice than business plan. Teacher is not an entrepreneur. #hackedu
  • jeffjarvis: @morganchrisp You're kidding. In the entrepreneurial journo class I teach, grades don't matter; seed funding does. #hackedu
  • jonbischke: @jeffjarvis Frameworks, platforms & networks sounds like @umairh's networks, markets & communities. Would love his take on #hackedu
  • farazq: Poss scenario: personalized online classes tailored for learning style/interests & streamed live globally. anyone can join #hackedu
  • GregTracy: a big piece of #hackedu will be creating the tools that not only allow self-directed learning, but that also continuously evolve.
  • dit: #hackedu the debate is about 1) hack education from zero build new model, or 2) reform the existing system. What do you vote for? I SAY BOTH
  • opencontent: Should the Open High School openly publish anonymized achievement data throughout the year for the sake of public accountability? #hackedu
  • jeffjarvis: @opencontent Yes. And tie data to teachers (anon?), curriculum, college admission, ultimately professional success. #hackedu
  • foes4sports: @lawlesz So, really, the most important goal would be to get all to value education. #hackedu

    photo credit: dcJohn

Structuring learning as a game

  • kenbot: @drhoten @fredwilson #hackedu when school becomes work it dies... play is the way fwd ... edu level design is the art we need to master
  • aburak: Playing is an experience, it's non linear and immersive, our schools are many times none of the above #hackedu
  • Idit: @aburak #hackedu I agree! nonlinear-immersive experience example: http://tinyurl.com/ca7u43
  • Idit: #hackedu hey! we are moving in cool direction: induce public education system with elements of game systems. create obsession with learning.
  • jeffjarvis: #hackedu There's a danger to gaming as the new framework. Games have singular goals. Winning's 1 form of certification. Quality's another
  • jeffjarvis: #hackedu Games operate by rules. Life often doesn't. So games become a new form of systemization.
  • DaveTitle: @jeffjarvis is totally bothering me with his small-minded view of games and gaming. #hackedu
  • aburak: @jeffjarvis maybe the broader term is interactive experience. Not necessarily about winning and sometimes all about testing rules #hackedu
  • Idit: #hackedu Bob Kerrey: we must get into the regulatory environment. How can I get certified, get credit for learning language through a game?
  • morganchrisp: #hackedu Creative workspaces for children: play in platforms, not through narrative. Allow emergence.
  • Idit: #hackedu cultivating platforms for project-based learning, with game playing and game making in a network that makes learning transparent
  • Idit: #hackedu the games-in-education group do NOT want to stop playing!
  • zFlix: @jeffjarvis #hackedu if you look at games as a framework to education, educational games generally have different goals then competitive 1s.
  • Idit: #hackedu Bing+Idit: The hardest thing for educators (and most game designers) is to give away control to learners/players. But it's a must!
  • aburak: #hackedu had a few great teachers that I would never replace with computers, but they were probably more game designers than teachers
  • gjb: : "the only games we play are the ones we make!", I said to the ~10 4th-grade students in the computer lab * creators not consumers #hackedu

My Favorite Education Books

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The role of passion

  • daveschappell: Think schools where 'passion' is cool is better way of focusing-if passionate about coding, great! Finance? Great! Be awesome! #hackedu
  • rellimluap: Where does the stimulus come from to want to learn something? For me often comes from meeting a new group of people. #hackedu
  • drhoten: #hackedu can you really "teach" passion? Obsession? How about enable, encourage, expose instead ...
  • opencontent: @drhoten: You can't force a kid to "catch" an obsession, but you can stick them in a space with several "infected" people... #hackedu
  • PushDustIn: #hackedu learning comes from the soul's appetite,if students dont want to learn they cannot.Teachers are just ppl that show students the way
  • mbrosen: @andrewparker What if ones who didn't motivate you had actually been somewhat passionate about and/or fit for their career choice? #hackedu
  • GregTracy: it's not just about the teachers. parents and kids can contribute to the learning experience as much if not more with the tools #hackedu
  • GregTracy: imagine if we shared learning material as freely as we shared photos on facebook! #hackedu
  • opencontent: Fred Wilson: We need a line item veto for school, so kids can drop classes that suck and instead take them online and get credit. #hackedu
  • bka9: #hackedu where is the motivation to succeed? Poor performance in school == government support for the rest of their lives.
  • lawlesz: @gelbendorf we will meet the goal of education when we won't separate creating passion from teaching #hackedu
  • lawlesz: @PushDustIn yes, I think information can make people happier, but not information alone :) educating love is much more important #hackedu

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Libraries in a web 2.0 world

  • jeffjarvis: Bob Kerry says the new library is Starbucks. It's where the students are. #hackedu
  • Idit: #hackedu Bob Kerrey: we must admit that students are using software to reach materials, and it is leading universities to change
  • jeffjarvis: I spoke with NY public librarians last week and asked them to imagine libraries without buildings. What are they really? #hackedu
  • jeffreywindsor: @jeffjarvis Is the library where the students are, or where the books/materials are? Is a library a social or formal institution? #hackedu
  • jeffjarvis: @jeffreywindsor Great Q. A library must be a combination of both. #hackedu
  • jeffreywindsor: @jeffjarvis Should the library follow the students, or should it invite them? Then again, a good library is also a place of silence #hackedu
  • jeffjarvis: @jeffreywindsor The ideal library can come to you. Think distributed (#wwgd) #hackedu
  • jeffreywindsor: @jeffjarvis So there's no value to location or architecture? There's inspiration in stacks of books that Goog can never replicate. #hackedu
  • jeffjarvis: @jeffreywindsor Didn't say there's no value to the library building. But it's not THE value. So what is the value? #hackedu
  • ErikaSays: I know quite a few students who went through their college careers without once entering a library. culture changes, schools adapt. #hackedu
  • danapalooza: @jeffjarvis One library value: one of the few remaining public spaces. #hackedu
  • danapalooza: @jeffjarvis A lib. value: the set of social norms that exist there that allows one to study. Think edu cathedral. #hackedu (finally!)
  • morganchrisp: #hackedu Libraries should focus on creative work spaces if they want to remain physical.
  • foes4sports: Libraries focusing on creative work spaces is SO relevant. #hackedu
  • Zeblue_Prime: #hackedu libraries could also house craft centers for teachers and students alike; they could impart more info on how to use it's resources?
  • morganchrisp: #hackedu Libraries should look like design studios, not alleys.
  • frankiecheung: @jeffjarvis 1 framework: Open Space Technology. A common purpose allows space for learners to engage and create in the moment. #hackedu
  • morganchrisp: Students spend much more time studying and working together in the library than finding books. #hackedu
  • morganchrisp: Coffee/bookstores are result of unsatisfied demand for better public work spaces. Future of libraries are public design studios. #hackedu
  • Idit: @gelbendorf #hackedu for millions rural poor youth library is not Starbucks/B&N. A school or library may be the only fast connection in town
  • jeffjarvis: @morganchrisp Right. As offices go away, we need not a 3rd place but a new 2nd place: SBux, B&N, library, or a new business? #hackedu
  • jeffjarvis: @heif SBux is great at coffee, mediocre at providing space. But space is its greatest value. We need the inverse of SBux. #hackedu
  • DorianBenkoil: @jeffjarvis #hackedu actually, starbucks is the new conference room, not just the new library.
  • morganchrisp: @jeffjarvis Space must be free. Either current spaces evolve, or new ventures create other revenue opportunities that enhance exp. #hackedu
  • jeffjarvis: @morganchrisp Quality or reserved space could charge. Could charge for services - but on the fly. Social space also valued. @heif #hackedu
  • morganchrisp: @jeffjarvis true. Underlying value must remain open, public and free. Charge to add, not barrier essential value. #hackedu
  • morganchrisp: Comm. centers are too open. Creative spaces must have platforms/ networks that activate creativity, without narrating result. @heif #hackedu
  • jeffreywindsor: A library is an archive/repository first, a research space second, and a social place last of all. #hackedu
  • morganchrisp: That's not the actual emergent behavior in that space. There is a clear conflict of uses in that space. @jeffreywindsor #hackedu
  • gjb: @jeffreywindsor you are describing a library as it currently IS, not what it could possibly or usefully evolve into ... #hackedu
  • jeffreywindsor: If we kill the library as sanctuary, where does a student go to sit quietly and think/learn/write? @gjb @morganchrisp #hackedu
  • morganchrisp: Many library designs don't honor the sanctuary quality of a library. Nor do they honor its other uses. Recreate. @jeffreywindsor #hackedu
  • gjb: : not trying to kill the library but *enlarge* it, w/different kinds of spaces, one would be a 'sanctuary', another a 'springboard' #hackedu
  • jeffreywindsor: My concern is that the reimagined library squeezes out quiet, individual study. Social has other options; quiet has none. #hackedu
  • morganchrisp: @jeffreywindsor The point is to design a space for those who use the library as collaborative space, so library can remain silent. #hackedu

    photo credit: lusi

Technology and inequality

  • zephoria: I also worry that tech reinforces inequalities wrt education for vast majority but success stories cloud analysis. #hackedu
  • Idit: @kprentiss #hackedu yes. I join the idea of using technology to transform education to work for people that didn't already care or have opps
  • courosa: @zephoria The inequalities we find in RL are not only perpetuated, but amplified in virtual environments. #hackedu
  • opencontent: Mitch Resnick: Tech really helps us do three things - access information, make things, and connect with people. #hackedu

A market model

  • jeffjarvis: @fredwilson: We're going to have a marketplace model for education. Student (customer) in charge. #hackedu
  • academicdave: @jeffjarvis this is in some sense a scary proposition, that education will simply become market driven #hackedu
  • academicdave: @jeffjarvis market driven education assumes that unchecked market knows best, myth of invisible hand? #hackedu
  • jeffjarvis: @academicdave Pure market has that danger. But market informs and it's not good to be deaf to it. #hackedu
  • academicdave: @jeffjarvis seems some of the benefits of university have been precisely not market driven, long term gain over short term profit #hackedu
  • morganchrisp: #hackedu Market driven may be result. Not much profit incentive in education. Different incentives could surface. Point is: compete/decentr.
  • morganchrisp: Schools must treat their students as customers. Need better feedback architecture. Ratemyprof is early example, where could it go? #hackedu
  • lawlesz: @morganchrisp then we will have to introduce competition, so that changing school would become a matter of few "clicks" #hackedu
  • jeffjarvis: #hackedu What if educational vouchers let students get education anywhere, e.g., Teachstreet?
  • bka9: @jeffjarvis #hackedu we could not let tax backed vouchers be used anywhere. we have an obligation to ensure proper education.
  • jeffjarvis: #hackedu Whatever happened to Edison's paid schools? Wrong model: compete with schools instead of taking them over?
  • morganchrisp: @jeffjarvis School funding: Parents receive tax deductions for making donations to competing schools. #hackedu

    photo credit: jbrockardt

Cost of education

  • movEluvr: With the way the cost of education goes up, online schools is a great way to keep the masses educated. #hackedu
  • opencontent: Bing Gordon: Could technology ever drive the margin cost per student of education down to $0? #hackedu
  • opencontent: Bing Gordon: How can we get the all-in cost of public education (facilities, materials, people) down to $5k per student per year? #hackedu
  • marziah: SpEd is part of the per student cost, and that should not be reduced. #hackedu
  • Idit: #hackedu learning by teaching is great-it also can that reduce the cost of education? however, not everyone has teaching abilities in them!
  • opencontent: @PushDustIn Software costs are a drop in the bucket compared to teachers / admin, textbooks and programs, and buildings. #hackedu
  • PushDustIn: @opencontent Digitalized textbooks, maybe more online learning (it would reduce building cost, admin costs). #hackedu
  • marziah: @opencontent - moving software to the cloud, distance learning, etc reduce some of those costs, though some things still need F2F.#hackedu
  • BradUSV: #hackedu david wiley a mechanism to scale evaluation of essays infinetly - make reading part of writing

Role of teachers

  • opencontent: Bing Gordon: Teachers are the bank tellers of the 1970s. (And will soon be replaced by something like ATMs.) #hackedu
  • foes4sports: Teachers should become facilitators of learning, rather than imparters of knowledge. #hackedu
  • jonbischke: @ceonyc The Web creates the opp for rock star teachers. Scale massively increases the incentive for innovation. #hackedu
  • mickhagen: Brightstorm.com is one place where teachers can leverage the power of the web to teach. #hackedu
  • budtheteacher: "Teachers as ATMs" assumes learning is a one way transaction. That's an incorrect frame/assumption/model. #hackedu
  • jeffjarvis: #hackedu How do we turn teachers into rock stars? - Jon Bischke
  • jeffjarvis: @sivavaid What's wrong with teachers being famous, rich, respected, free to do what they do best? Rock on. #hackedu
  • jerrymichalski: @jeffjarvis #hackedu how do we turn all of us into teachers/coaches?
  • opencontent: Fred Wilson: We can't hack education as long as we have a monopolistic system where good teachers get paid the same as bad ones. #hackedu
  • jeffjarvis: @jerrymichalski The web provides frameworks now for all of us to be teachers & even pay for it. e.g., Teachstreet. #hackedu #wwgd
  • jeffreywindsor: @jeffjarvis If we pay teachers like rockstars we'll wind up with teachers in it for the money = recipe for a failed educational sys #hackedu
  • GregTracy: @jeffjarvis provide tools that let the teachers be the innovators in their niche rather than pushing "innovations" for them to use #hackedu
  • andrewparker: My best teachers in my life have never been motivated financially to excite me. Skeptical about free-market & edu intersection. #hackedu
  • lawlesz: @opencontent bad teachers need food too + and all good teachers are bad in the beginning #hackedu
  • morganchrisp: @jeffjarvis What are your strongest incentives to be a great teacher? For me, I would want to be inspired by my students #hackedu
  • aburak: @andrewparker agree, many were the opposite: not about money, teaching as a mission. #hackedu
  • jeffreywindsor: @PushDustIn Authority is (sometimes) required to determine "mistakes." Sometimes self-eval takes decades. Some subjs need teachers. #hackedu
  • PushDustIn: @lawlesz I think learning needs to become more independent;realizing mistakes = biggest lesson. #hackedu
  • jeffreywindsor: @lawlesz It's all relative, yes. My point is that some learning, perhaps esp in the arts, requires more teacher interaction. #hackedu
  • jeffreywindsor: @PushDustIn Don't overstate the value of exp: "A couple of months in the laboratory can save a couple of hours in the library." #hackedu

Questions

  • opencontent: Sir Ken: Theater is about a performer and an audience. Everything else is distraction. What is the irreducible core of education? #hackedu
  • rokali: #hackedu Why are we talking about all this in a room with no one under 25 yrs old?
  • chrishughes2: if anyone can access any information through the web, what structure exists or can exist to determine the accuracy of the info? #hackedu
  • morganchrisp: Not enough students on here. Is that an indication of satisfaction or learned apathy? #hackedu
  • morganchrisp: Many library designs don't honor the sanctuary quality of a library. Nor do they honor its other uses. Recreate. @jeffreywindsor #hackedu

Class size

  • jeffreywindsor: Don't raise teacher pay; shrink class sizes. The best learning is 1:1. My students learn more in conferences with me than in class. #hackedu
  • Idit: @jeffreywindsor #hackedu there many kinds of "best teaching" -some are teams2teams,some are expert-guided just-in-time-learning; or co-learn
  • csessums: @jeffreywindsor Research suggests teachers make the diff, not class size #hackedu
  • jeffreywindsor: @Idit Agreed. Shrinking classes is only a partial solution, but a large and crucial part. #hackedu
  • jeffreywindsor: @csessums You try teaching a large group to write clear prose and then tell me that class size doesn't matter. #hackedu
  • jeffreywindsor: @henryaym Student interaction is important, but teachers teaching is more important. #hackedu
  • csessums: @jeffreywindsor #hackedu No offense, but I have. And enjoyed the process. Again it's about pedagogy, not size.
  • marziah: I had a huge lecture class that taught me a lot. All because the teacher rocked. #hackedu
  • jeffreywindsor: @csessums Not offended. I currently teach writing, and without some 1:1 time most never make major progress. 1:1 is v. important. #hackedu
  • jeffreywindsor: @henryaym Maybe it's a difference in the student. I teach at a university; they're not kids, and I'm teaching advanced stuff. #hackedu
  • csessums: @jeffreywindsor #hackedu No doubt 1:1 is v. important. But so is knowing how to teach. The academic term is pedagogical content knowledge.
  • lawlesz: @jeffreywindsor advanced stuff is something relative to the audience - not to the stuff itself, don't you agree? #hackedu
  • BrijeshJ: @Idit #hackedu learning by teaching works only when teachers know they are still learning. Often they loose sight of that

External resources

  • jonbischke: For those following #hackedu convo, I posted my thoughts yesterday on what it will take to rev edu at http://blog.edufire.com.
  • kprentiss: @opencontent first 16 slides are my visuals of the comfort ramifications - it goes through college: maslow's http://is.gd/m7lM #hackedu
  • jonbischke: @heif Good examples of students teaching students = Grockit, LiveMocha, iKnow.co.jp. #hackedu
  • EricFriedman: Video example of the power of self made tutorials and learning and the ecosystems that can form around them http://bit.ly/jMiW1 #hackedu
  • jeffjarvis: Just blogged the entire education chapter from #wwgd in honor of #hackedu http://ginx.com/-wy3s
  • opencontent: Diana Rhoten mentions http://www.muzzylane.com/ #hackedu
  • Idit: #hackedu we are watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o video produced by Michael Wesch and 200 Kansas State University students
  • anya1anya: #hackedu have you read Deschooling Society? ilich hacked education 20 yrs pre-Internet. http://tinyurl.com/dfesp3
  • jonbischke: @shygrr1 Katie Salen describing soon-to-launch school Quest to Learn. One of best ideas I've heard in a long time. #hackedu
  • jeffjarvis: The big money in education rebooted will be in creating frameworks, platforms, networks. Rob Kalin is building one: parachutes.org #hackedu
  • Idit: #hackedu just demo some Voice from the Field from our Globaloria http://www.worldwideworkshop.org/programs/globaloria/voices-from-the-field
  • opencontent: Alex Grodd is talking about his new project betterlesson.org. #hackedu
  • morganchrisp: This is a well-designed visual of the thought spectrum on the future of education http://bit.ly/axiF2 #hackedu
  • jonbischke: @opencontent Clayton Christensen's book Disrupting Class is a great (albeit not perfect) manifesto for software-based learning. #hackedu
  • csessums: Dear #hackedu participants, Recommended reading: Gladwell's Most Likely to Succeed New Yorker piece http://bit.ly/OIb2
  • evanlenz: Shorter 40-second clip of Dan Greenberg on the collapse of public education in America: http://bit.ly/18n3S6 Not at #hackedu but relevant
  • fredwilson: #hackedu the attendee list for hacking education is here http://bit.ly/HEList
  • RuthHoward: http://tinyurl.com/dndovq #hackedu
  • MartinRuiz: About to start reading Sir Ken Robinson's new book, The Element http://bit.ly/iV6Ew #hackedu
  • jonbischke: Must-read book 4 #hackedu is Turning Learning Right Side Up. Fav quote="The righter we do the wrong thing the wronger we become."
  • jalam1001: Push to Pull model of learning http://tinyurl.com/ajnh5o (expand) #hackedu

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Blog reactions to conference

  • chrismeserole: "Learning is bottom up and education is top down. We'll have more learning and less education in the future." #hackedu http://bit.ly/dPzWe
  • jaxn: My thoughts related to Hacking Education http://urlzen.com/7hk #hackedu Looking forward to reading the transcripts from the mtg
  • lawlesz: My follow-up thoughts on Hacking Education + related links #hackedu http://ow.ly/HSs
  • JuergenB: 5 ideas for improving Twitter use in workshops and conference settings #hackedu http://is.gd/msam (been working on this all day!)
  • fredwilson: @ragsgupta your friend's "rant" on our hacking education session is a good response that is worth reading http://bit.ly/Ldk5 #hackedu
  • fredwilson: photos from hacking education are online at flickr http://bit.ly/HackEduPics lacking context for sure, but fun nonetheless #hackedu
  • matthewclower: This is a good interpretation of why it makes sense to invite Twitter to your "events" http://bit.ly/rLvVk #hackedu
  • lindseyb16: @eduinnovationThe cutting edge list. "Following the Brilliant Minds Behind Hacking Education" http://is.gd/miAz #hackedu
  • digitaldigs: new post on hacking education: http://bit.ly/GbqQT #twitrhet #hackedu
  • wfarren: New Post: Schools in an Age of Abundance: http://www.ed4wb.org/?p=172 #hackedu
  • jeffjarvis: The contrast between #sxsw's #edupunk panel and USV's #hackedu is stark. The latter is about reality, action. This is about rhetoric.
  • jeffjarvis: Entrepreneurs will save education, not educators. That's my thin conclusion from #edupunk vs. #hackedu

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    paul baker Jun 22, 2009 @ 1:20 pm | delete
    I'm pointing people to this curated list as an example of adding value to any conference. Thanks.
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    GB Jun 9, 2009 @ 1:02 pm | delete
    All of tthis assumes the educational system is about learning. Actually, that is Job 2. Job 1 is keeping the children safe and under control while the adults work. As long as they are all sitting together we might as well attempt to use the time wisely. Hence there will always be teachers. Or the return to child labor.
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    Daniel Jun 8, 2009 @ 12:52 am | delete
    Really bummed that I missed this conference...but excited I at least found out about it. This is a fantastic summary and catalog (Yet Another Useful Application of Twitter).

    A ton of great conversation starters about/around Education. This is just the tip of the iceberg of what open collaboration can bring to the forefront.

    Thanks for putting this together!
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    Lifeline May 21, 2009 @ 6:30 am | delete
    Have you seen Moodle. It's used extensively in education.
    We provide free Science Labs, see my blog at http://sarasotascience.blogspot.com/
    or Sartasotascience.org and let me know how you think this concept works with education in the schools.
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    Bob Wan-Qi Kim @journik May 13, 2009 @ 2:09 pm | delete
    Alex, Obama just gave Arne $100 billion as an educational stimulus package. Changing the construct of eduction is good. But the content must change too. By that I mean this: http://bit.ly/xGVpy PLS RT -@journik
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    Debibliophile Apr 23, 2009 @ 1:30 pm | delete
    Glad to see some suggestions for inter-disciplinary teaching. I had 2 classes set up like that in college (ok, back in the '80's) and they were revolutionary for me. I learned a lot more and also how to see things in new ways. I think it helped inspire me to keep learning, even though I am done with school. I probably search a term or subject an average of 5 times a day. And I went back to school; graduating w/ 2 degrees, in 2000. Nothing stands on its own; there are always connections.
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    MartinTheGregerson Apr 14, 2009 @ 9:22 am | delete
    Hui, that was hard work hum? - But very interesting. thanks alot
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    seegreen Apr 13, 2009 @ 3:25 am | delete
    Enjoying the discussion immensely.
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    ShelbieD Apr 9, 2009 @ 3:12 pm | delete
    Great discussion! I think one of the big problems with modern education is that too many THINK they can solve the problems by throwing more money at it. That simply doesn't work. Private schools and homeschoolers have been proving that for years.
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    CollegeKid1 Apr 7, 2009 @ 6:43 pm | delete
    Interesting stuff.
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    nwmtrainingpartner Apr 5, 2009 @ 7:07 pm | delete
    Everyone does have an opinion. Instead of quoting everyone, I would find this much more useful if you would summarize key points and then add quotes. Most people don't have the time to decipher these details. But maybe this is meant for the people who attended.
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    rydigga Apr 3, 2009 @ 9:39 am | delete
    Hi Alex,

    Very thorough lens. Well done! 5*

    Thanks for sharing your insight :)

    Ryan
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    KarateKatGraphics Apr 1, 2009 @ 9:42 am | delete
    Lots of great, quick insights here on an incredibly important topic. Fun to read, too!
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    aexdesign Mar 31, 2009 @ 12:24 pm | delete
    I suggest reading this incredible, inspiring book:
    Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
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