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Edutopia blogger, Elena Leoni, recently blogged about her recent experience attending a #140edu conference. She summarizes how the speakers of the conference spoke about changing education in the United States. Some guest speakers spoke about how the education system serves a demographic that no longer exist in most of the US. Some guest speakers spoke about how the Internet is changing education continuously. While others spoke about how to over come the "Yes, but . . ." people, and using gaming models in education. Her experience sounded enlightening, something I bet most teachers could use this time of year, especially in the face of what is to come this new school year starting in about a month.
The tweets from the speakers and attendees can be followed on Twitter. She even mentions the date for the next #140edu conference. This is definitely something I might look into for next summer. I just not sure of the logistics. Do you actually go to the conference or just follow the Tweets of these people? I am a cloudy on how exactly this conference works. Nonetheless, it does sound interesting.
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Works Cited
Leoni, E. Reinventing Education One Tweet at a Time. Edutopia. Retrieved August 11, 2011 from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/140edu-real-time-internet-education-elana-leoni?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
I am sure that education is changing toward technology whether some educators like it or not. As each new generation of teachers are getting hired, the range of technology talents will keep unfolding. I know that new technology keeps changing every year and we can only hope that education will involve more technology with every future generation of teacher hired.
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