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Steve Hargadon steve@hargadon.com www.stevehargadon.com 916-899-1400

See blog posts based on this outline from on this at: http://www.techlearning.com/blog/2008/03/web_20_is_the_future_of_educat_1.php http://www.stevehargadon.com/2008/03/web-20-is-future-of-education.html


 * Ten Web 2.0 Trends That Will Have a Profound Impact on Education:**


 * 1) A New Publishing Revolution
 * 2) A Tidal Wave of Information
 * 3) Everything Is Becoming Participative
 * 4) The New Pro-sumers
 * 5) The Age of the Collaborator
 * 6) An Explosion of Innovation
 * 7) The World Gets Even Flatter and Faster
 * 8) Social Learning Moves Toward Center Stage
 * 9) The Long Tail
 * 10) Social Networking Opens Up the Party


 * Educational Shifts:**
 * From consuming to producing
 * From authority to transparency
 * From the expert to the facilitator
 * From the lecture to the hallway
 * From access to information to access to people
 * From learning about to learning to be
 * From passive to passionate learning
 * From presentation to participation
 * From publication to conversation
 * From formal schooling to lifelong learning
 * From supply-push to demand-pull


 * Bombshell: Web 2.0 __Is__ the Future of Education**


 * What You Can Do:**
 * Learn About Web 2.0
 * Lurk
 * Participate: Become Personally Engaged
 * Digest: The Answer to Information Overload Is to Produce More Information
 * Teach Content Production
 * Make Education a Public Discussion
 * Help Build the New Playbook

(Links to School Library Journal article pages)