Following the Brilliant Minds Behind Hacking Education

Posted on 06. Mar, 2009 by Koichi in Community, Education, Resources, Revolution

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An incredible event went down in New York today: the “Hacking Education Conference.” Jon was there, and even though I wasn’t, I followed it on Twitter and was able to contribute a bit from across the country. Everyone at the conference (or tweeting about it) used the hashtag #hackedu to keep track. All day, I’ve been compiling a list of all the contributors to the #hackedu conversation and wanted to share them here with you, so even after the conference is over, you can continue to see what these educational geniuses are up to. Oh, and of course, with every Twitter-related article, a shameless plug: follow us over at @edufire.

Who’s Tweeting #hackedu? A list of “Education on Twitter”

This is just a list of people who have contributed to the “Hacking Education” discussion on Twitter (will be adding more as they come along, to a certain extent). I don’t know exactly who was at this conference, but honestly, it doesn’t matter. Everyone listed below is passionate about changing education for the better, so if you are as well, this is a great list of people to follow! If they have a blog, I linked it under their name.

If you’re looking for a good recap on the event, AVC does a great overview with some great points as well (my favorite is number 11). My congrats and encouragement to everyone out there hacking education! I’m looking forward to building change and a great future for the system!

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Andrew Warner

Point #1 is what I hope you guys will help with:

The student (and his/her parents) is increasingly going to take control of his/her education including choice of schools, teachers, classes, and even curriculum. That's what the web does. It transfers control from institutions to individuals and its going to do that to education too.

koichi

I hope so - it's really cool to see how so much of what they talked about at Hacking Education really correlates to our goals here! It's really kind of humbling, actually!

Matt Jukes

Thanks for putting this list together and the other links - looking forward to following a great many new and interesting people on Twitter. #hackededu seems to have been a great event and I'm looking forward to seeing what ideas it has sparked in the attendees...

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Matt Jukes

got to agree with you. would like to see where this goes.. #hackedu does seem like a great event.. keeps up the good work.. every one working on it.. good luck

KirstenWinkler

I think I need to follow some people of this list. 5 month later, but hey, still relevant.
Thanks for putting it together, Koichi!

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