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Conference Technology

Drilling Down on the Real Impacts of Emerging Technologies in Education

Presenter(s)
Steve Hargadon (Consultant, US)
Audrey Watters (Consultant, US)
Session Information
July 26, 2012 - 8:30am
Institutional Level: 
Multiple
Audience Level: 
All
Session Type: 
Plenary Session
Location: 
Galileo 901-906 & 1001-1006
Session Duration: 
70 Minutes
Virtual Session
Abstract

In their weekly ed tech podcast Audrey Watters and Steve Hargadon take an independent, sometimes critical, and hopefully insightful (but sometimes inciteful) look at emerging technologies and education. Today's session will bring you their no-holds-barred responses and reactions to the current ed tech landscape in the back-and-forth style of their show.

Lead Presenter
Steve Hargadon

Steve Hargadon

I am the Social Learning Consultant for Elluminate/Blackboard Collaborate and the founder of the Web 2.0 Labs.

I created the Classroom 2.0 social network, am host of the Future of Education interview series, and co-chair the annual Global Education and Library 2.0 worldwide conferences. I pioneered the use of social networking in education, particularly for professional development. I blog, speak, and consult on educational technology, and I run several virtual and physical events to build community and connections in education.

I am also the Emerging Technologies Chair for ISTE, the author of "Educational Networking: The Important Role Web 2.0 Will Play in Education," the recipient of the 2010 Technology in Learning Leadership Award (CUE), and a blogger at www.SteveHargadon.com. I have consulted for PBS, Intel, Ning, Blackboard, Microsoft, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, CoSN, MERLOT, the U.S. State Department, and others on educational technology and specifically on social networking.

My wife and I have four children.
   
Audrey Watters Audrey Watters is a journalist specializing in education technology news and analysis. She has worked in the education field for the past 15 years: as a graduate student, college instructor, and program manager for an ed-tech non-profit. Although she was two chapters into a dissertation in Comparative Literature, she decided to eschew the professor track for a different path, and she now happily fulfills the one job recommended to her by a junior high aptitude test: freelance writer. She has written for Edutopia, MindShift, Inside Higher Ed, The School Library Journal, O'Reilly Radar, ReadWriteWeb, and The Huffington Post, in addition to her own blog Hack Education.

 

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