Monday, April 26, 2010

Jackie Gerstein on "User-Generated Education"

Our "Students 2.0" mini-series continues on Tuesday, April 27th, with a live and interactive interview with Dr. Jackie Gerstein on "User-Generated Education."

Date:  Tuesday, 27th April, 2010
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.
Event Page:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/70950

This session will explore the following questions:

  • "Should a student-centric, user-generated education be the predominant learning model for this era of the 21st Century?"  
  • "Can networked-learning based on communities of practice with multiage learners be a model-platform for education in this century?" 
Resources for this presentation can be found at http://jackiegerstein.wikispaces.com/User-Generated+Education.

Dr. Jackie Gerstein's byline is " I don't do teaching for a living, I live teaching as my doing, and technology has AMPLIFIED the passion."  More about Jackie's experiences and passions can be viewed at http://jackiegerstein.weebly.com/.

[Cross-posted from http://www.stevehargadon.com]