Web 2.0 for Education Outreach to Low-Income and Minority Students

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Honeycutt on February 13, 2009 at 10:08pm

I absolutely am interested in this conversation! I know that Ginger Lewman, Teresa Morgan, Terry Eis and many other Kansas would be as well!

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on February 14, 2009 at 9:29am

Thanks, Kevin. I hope you'll bring them into the discussion. I'm somewhat stunned to look at this thread after posting it late on a Friday night and to wake up to 31 responses so far...

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on February 14, 2009 at 9:42am

I love this train of thought. It matches, for me, the way John Palfrey talks about a "population" of digital natives instead of a "generation."

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Permalink Reply by Vivian Wolfe on February 14, 2009 at 3:40pm

II would love to see how various districts use the money included in the stimulus package.

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Permalink Reply by Julie Lindsay on February 13, 2009 at 10:27pm

Steve, this links in directly with the work we did at the Student Summit of the Flat Classroom Conference recently and with our plans for future development of Flat Classrooms. Our aim is to encourage action and creative solutions for social and global issues by using Web 2.0 in the actual process as well as in the solution. We are putting together student-designed/envisioned projects over the next 12 months as spin-offs from the conference that address global needs. To do this we are including the students in the organisation and management of the projects, students who are basd all around the world. In particular we have also been discussing how we can include low-income, geographically dispersed groups and include them in this conversation via Web 2.0. We are looking at links with the OLPC initiative and we hope to be able to add value by providing ideas for pedagogy, once again based on connectivity, communication, collaboration and creation, that will shift education into a more meaningful realm.
Let's talk more!
Thanks
Julie

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Permalink Reply by Julie Lindsay on February 14, 2009 at 4:54am

I was just thinking that maybe readers of this discussion may not be familiar with Flat Classroom Projects or the conference we ran recently. Here are some links.
Flat Classroom Conference Ning (and hyperlnks found from this) - http://flatclassroomconference.ning.com/
Archived projects: http://archives.flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.net

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on February 14, 2009 at 9:46am

Would love to follow up on this. I'll try and keep track of what you are doing, and if you have any interest in having the students participate in the discussion here or elsewhere, let me know a good way to facilitate that. Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Julie Lindsay on February 14, 2009 at 8:25pm

Hi Steve, posted an invitation on the Flat Classroom Conference Ning inviting students to contribute.

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Permalink Reply by Graham Glass on February 13, 2009 at 10:47pm

Hi Steve,

I'm Graham Glass, the founder of edu20, a free online site for teaching and learning (http://www.edu20.org). We've got quite a bit of experience in how web 2.0 approaches are being used for education since we have over 34,000 members now. Many of our teachers and students are in low-income areas of the world and use our system extensively.

Please let me know if I can be of assistance in this discussion.

Cheers,
Graham

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on February 14, 2009 at 10:09am

Graham: nice to connect with you again. Just participating, or encouraging participation, in this forum discussion would be helpful. Looking forward to any thoughts you have. The site looks good, btw!

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Permalink Reply by Bill Claxton on February 13, 2009 at 11:24pm

Steve, hi -

I have 3 ideas for your talk.

1. Check out Elliot Masie (http://www.masie.com). He's one of the gurus in the space, but a bit 'right of center' (more on the corporate learning side than the academic side).

2. Look at what's being done in the area of standard operating environments (SOEs), where the Windows products are stripped down to minimum feature set, and most of the interesting bits are cloud computing apps. This trend promotes ease-of-use, reliability, disaster recovery and reduced support costs.

3. Look at the relationship of content, portals and communities. For example, it is well known that presentation recording (eg- podcasts and lecture capture) promote use of learning management systems, and in turn help build online communities to support wikis and other shared spaces.

Hope this helps.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on February 14, 2009 at 10:12am

I don't know Elliot--do you know him well enough to make an introduction? I am fascinated by the hardware side, having overseen a project for a Firefox "kiosk" we made available after the Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (see http://www.publicwebstations.com). I'm also very interested in the ways that time-shifting technologies might have an impact here. Thanks.

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