Education 3.0: Revolutionizing the Organization of Learning + Hacking Education

Hacking Education Unconference

AVC highlights:

The tools to do this are right in front of us; peer production, collaboration, social networking, web video, voip, open source, even game play. I think we can look at what has happened to the big media institutions over the past ten years as a guide to how to do this. We will use a “revolution of the ants” to take down our education institutions and replace them with something better.

Ken Robinson on Creativity and Schools

Associated Teaching, Learning, and Education Resources
Wikinomics is a great read on some of these collaboration issues.
Paulo Friere on the banking model in education.

If you are interested in the areas of learning 2.0 or education 2.0 in the K-12 or higher ed setting, you may be interested in my coverage of social media trends. Hyper local, video community, aggregation, and crowd sourcing all look to be big. This has been confirmed by the SXSW panel on “Spec Design” on the issue of crowd sourcing as well as the aggregation of all the open source university videos at Academic Earth.