Hack+Your+Education+Workshop+Schedule

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7:00pm Local Time (plus pre- and post-workshop activities)
This is a two-hour active workshop, designed to help students, parents, and others to start a personal education revolution by taking charge of your own learning. We start by having you identify the most significant learning experiences from your own life, then use those build a set of lessons for learning: those elements that are really needed for learning to occur. We then discuss the skills you believe will make a difference for students to succeed in the 21st Century, and we brainstorm a framework of strategies for developing those skills and achieving long term educational goals for you and/or your children. The group will at this point have built a larger set of goals and strategies for learning, and you will choose the ones that are most applicable and important to you to take away as your own personal learning plan: a framework set of principles to guide your educational activities and decisions.

The first goal of this workshop is to help you begin to understand the importance of taking control of your own learning goals and to shift your relationship to the education system. Whether you want to just make sure you are in charge of your educational decisions, or you're struggling with feeling or being told that you or your child is a failure, my hope is that you leave the workshop with a much clearer sense of direction and independence.

The second goal of this workshop is to model how you might hold a local or community discussion about education. Those who want to can stay for a 30-minute session after the workshop to discuss steps you could take to hold your own Education Revolution meeting(s).

Other:
 * Check the "schedule" page for dates/cities and specific meeting places.
 * You do not need a computer to attend this meeting. We will not be using any technology for this discussion.
 * You do not need to RSVP to attend. You do not need to bring anything to the event (except your own food if you plan on being there for the dinner conversation.)
 * The event is free.

PRE-WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES:

5:00 pm local time - If this event is held on a Friday Night, we will start at 5pm local time with a live recording of weekly podcast with Audrey Watters of [|Hack Education]. Mostly this will involve bringing Audrey in remotely, but in some of the cities she may be able to join us. The podcast is a somewhat snarky, hopefully independent review of education and educational-technology stories of the week and of Audrey's blog posts.

6:00 pm local time - Picnic / brown-bag dinner with anyone who would like to join us.

POST-WORKSHOP ACTIVITY:

9:00 - 9:30pm local time - An open discussion on how to take this workshop format and hold a discussion in your local neighborhood or within your community on education and learning.

9:00am - 3:00pm
A hands-on workshop for students, teachers, parents, librarians, administrators, and anyone else. The focus is on how to use Web 2.0 and social media for your personal, educational, and professional growth. Bootcamp 2.0 is about "hacking" - the word "hack" has a couple of cultural connotations: first, it means to find a way to do something that may not be fancy, but gets the job done; second, it can mean an attempt to subvert the existing system. There's something of both in what we do during this workshop. We'll walk through building a personal learning network, creating your online personal learning environment, managing your digital profile, and cultivating your personal passions and life purposes. If the goal of education is learning how to learn, then students and adults alike face similar challenges and unique opportunities, and this is a chance to define your own independent learning environment and your personal educational or career resources.

Other:
 * Lunch is not included, bring your own or go out during break
 * Check the "schedule" page for dates/cities and specific meeting places.
 * You do not need to RSVP to attend.
 * You will need to bring a laptop computer that you know how to use and that has the ability to connect to a wireless network.
 * The event is free, but donations are enormously appreciated!