{"id":161,"date":"2008-06-20T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=161"},"modified":"2020-07-25T19:01:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T00:01:03","slug":"should-i-attend-edubloggercon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Should I Attend Edubloggercon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stager.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/iStock_000005290011XSmall-734304.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stager.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/iStock_000005290011XSmall-734281.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I love conferences. I&#8217;ve attended and spoken at hundreds of them. I relish the opportunity to spend time exchanges ideas and catching-up with old friends while meeting new ones. I welcome any opportunity to discuss powerful ideas with colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>A large part of me would like to attend the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edubloggercon.com\/NECC+2008\">Edubloggercon<\/a> before NECC. I know that I am welcome there, but are my ideas?<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that although I understand and use Web 2.0 tools, I am less sanguine about their potential to revolutionize education. I believe that the emphasis on using computers as information appliances represents a tiny portion of the computer&#8217;s power. <\/p>\n<p>This and other important issues are worthy of debate, but I am not sure that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edubloggercon.com\/NECC+2008\">Edubloggercon<\/a> is the right venue for questioning the educational assumptions held by a good number of participants. Some colleagues identify so closely with the ethos of the blogosphere that any criticism of the software tools or classroom applications is interpreted as a personal attack. One educator wrote the following about me today, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just believe the criticism, even if justified, was not done in the spirit and manner of a what I was taught an educator should do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>I respect Steve Hargadon and his efforts on behalf of Edubloggercon too much to generate unwanted dissent or be the skunk at the Edugarden party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love conferences. I&#8217;ve attended and spoken at hundreds of them. 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