K12 Online Conference 2007
Posted By Doug Belshaw On 8th October 2007 @ 21:38 In Learning | Comments Disabled
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The [3] K12 Online Conference begins next Monday 15th October 2007. As with last year’s inaugural conference, [4] Dave Warlick has done the [5] Pre-Conference Keynote. His presentation last year [6] Derailing Education: taking sidetrips for learning was excellent - is this year’s as good?
Well… no. In fact I nearly turned it off after 20 minutes; I unsubscribed from Dave Warlick’s [7] blog a while ago and he does talk a bit too much about himself. But to have turned him off half-way through would have been to do Dave a disservice. His 2007 Keynote, entitled [8] Inventing the New Boundaries seems to ramble a bit, but comes together towards the end. I like his metaphors especially - talking about how learning used to be accomplished through ‘gravity’, for example.
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Dave speaks of teachers and students looking for ‘traction’ - without boundaries and frameworks they are going nowhere. He lost me a bit when he started talking about [10] sci-fi novels, but it reminded me of something else I’ve read this week - namely Jason Calacanis’ definition of Web 3.0:
Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web 2.0 technology as an enabling platform.
In [11] From the Information Age to the Connected Age, Anne Zelenka at GigaOM cites the following table:
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I think we’re past the stage where we realise the potential of Web 2.0 tools. It’s now time to make sure what it means to be ‘literate’ in the 21st century is understood for us as educators to build upon. Oh, and that just happens to be the topic of my [13] Ed.D. thesis… 
Update: there have been some streaming issues with Dave’s presentation, so I uploaded it to [14] Google video. This means people can embed it in their blogs/wikis, as I have done below:
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#1 Comment By audrey On 9th October 2007 @ 04:20
I find your response very interesting… I also found Dave’s response a little rambling.. at points I sort of drifted off.
The gravity part, for instance… I wasn’t sure what he meant. I sort of slipped out around that time and came back in when he was saying that the old way used gravity to teach or rolling down hills.. I guess I didn’t really get the metaphor… (information from on high rolling down the hill… learning through inertia?) well anyway… whatever it was and the new way doesn’t do that and gravity doesn’t exist. I happen to think inertia is a maligned force to begin with.. it’s pretty wonderful in the right circumstances.
In any case, I doubt we’re about to enter a gravity-less world where we have to create our own traction and none of the old rules apply. It makes for a good sound byte and it encourages the idea that anything goes as we work it out… but it’s a bit too vague and evangelical for me. The fact is that a lot of the old rules are going to hang right in there. Nothing so grand as chillin’ at the Starbucks being an enthusiastic self learner as the new classroom is coming… at least not for kids. My feeling is that a more practical, coherent, age appropriate and integrated approach is where we’re going and what we need.
#2 Comment By Doug Belshaw On 11th October 2007 @ 17:51
I think we need a new keynote speaker. Will Richardson is another example of someone who’s every blog post I used to read as it was a breath of fresh air. There’s something missing when they’re doing it for a living and no longer practitioners… 
Roll on next week! 
#3 Comment By Graham Wegner On 28th October 2007 @ 05:05
Doug, this is way late but as I’ve expressed my dismay elsewhere on the web, I found the pre-conference keynote to be a total fizzer. It didn’t enthuse me - luckily I’m not a first time K12 Online Conference goer and using this as a litmus test for how the conference will be. I really enjoyed Clarence Fisher’s keynote and would have preferred that as the opener to get people fired up and enthused. I agree with you about having conference circuit people keynoting to practitioners - but ironically, we still keep them in business by turning up in droves whenever they headline a conference somewhere in the world. As far as appealing to a global audience, David’s keynote seems to have been warmly received by the North American contingent (not withstanding some Canadian pockets of dissent) but most of the underwhelmed seem to be from the UK or down under. Maybe there’s something to be said for getting to the point.
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[6] Derailing Education: taking sidetrips for learning: http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=26
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