Hacking Education

I was lucky enough to join the conversation today at an event called Hacking Education put on by our team at Union Square Ventures.

It was a great day overall and we had a great group of attendees who are now all invited to continue the conversation on the Hacking Education open wiki

Some highlights and tweets from the day:

http://twitter.com/aburak: #hackedu had a few great teachers that I would never replace with computers, but they were probably more game designers than teachers
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http://twitter.com/morganchrisp:Schools must treat their students as customers. Need better feedback architecture. Ratemyprof is early example, where could it go? #hackedu
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http://twitter.com/heif:#hackedu http://homeschool.meetup.com/
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http://twitter.com/Idit:#hackedu some of the learning is happening out of school. Learning networks should build bridges.
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Giving students broadband access solves nothing – it’s the tools that matter

Solving problems via the web is important. Getting access to the data at the right moment is the key.
-Fred Wilson

Teachers are bank tellers of the 1970’s and will be replaced soon.
-Bing Gordon

Most education Intranets are defunct – you cannot have the wisdom of the crowds with the crowds. – Alex Grodd of http://www.betterlesson.org

http://twitter.com/opencontent: Diana Rhoten: The functions previously performed by home, church, and school have all been dumped on schools – without the funding. #hackedu
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http://twitter.com/jonbischke: Must-read book 4 #hackedu is Turning Learning Right Side Up. Fav quote=”The righter we do the wrong thing the wronger we become.”
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Best up to date instruction on how to learn computers? The Apple Store
-Terri Flemal

Fred Wilson has a great list of thoughts on the day

And the thoughts and insight continue right now via Twitter #hackedu