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Yesterday Steve Hargadon published an article entitled “Web 2.0 is the Future of Education” that every educator should read. Here are a couple of excerpts”

“I believe that the read/write Web, or what we are calling Web 2.0, will culturally, socially, intellectually, and politically have a greater impact than the advent of the printing press. I believe that we cannot even begin to imagine the changes that are going to take place as the two-way nature of the Internet begins to flower, and that even those of us who have spent time imagining this future will be astounded by what happens.”

He then goes through ten trends that are important for education and learning and seven steps we, as educators can take to make a difference.

Trends:

1. A New Publishing Revolution
2. A Tital Wave of Information (Great statistics on how this information is growing, but he encourages more creation… with good reason.)
3. Everything is Becoming Participative
4. The New Pro-sumers (combination of ‘producer’ and ‘consumer’)
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.  (I especially like this one.)
9. The Long Tail (Availability of specialization)
10. Social Networking Really Opens Up the Party

Steps we can Take:

1. Learn about Web 2.0
2. Lurk
3. Participate
4. Digest This Though: “The Answer to Information Overload Is to Produce More Information.”
5. Teach Content Production
6. Make Education a Public Discussion
7. Help Build the New Playbook

What are your thoughts? Did you see this yesterday?