Future+of+Education?

= Is Web 2.0 the Future of Education? =



Steve Hargadon writes that Web 2.0 is the Future of Education. Find out why he thinks so from the full text on his blog at: [].

"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 a final title change: "'Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education'."
 * STEVE WRITES:**

**Steve writes about trends he sees in education:**

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

** Paradigm 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

**What to do?**

 * **Learn About Web 2.0.**
 * **Lurk.**
 * **Participate**.
 * **Digest This Thought:** The Answer to Information Overload Is to Produce More Information.
 * **Teach Content Production.**
 * **Make Education a Public Discussion**.
 * **Help Build the New Playbook**.

Read the full text here on Steve's blog at: [].