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Student Success with AI - Two Free Events

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High School Student Success with AI A Free Library 2.0 / Learning Revolution Workshop with Steve Hargadon I've spent my career in educational technology, and this is the talk I've been circling the whole time. AI can now do a student's homework better than the student can. Nearly everything being said about this — the detection tools, the policies, the "responsible use" frameworks — is an attempt to protect a system that stopped working the moment fluent output became free. This hour is about what that moment is revealing: that school has been running on a bargain, compliance in exchange for a credential, and that the bargain is now failing on both sides at once. AI isn't breaking education. It's exposing it — and the costs will fall hardest on the students and families who see it last. In sixty minutes: why the report card can no longer see the difference between a student whose thinking is growing and one whose thinking is quietly being replaced; a short exercise that will show you, from your own memory, what real learning has always required; and one question, borrowed from the most deliberate technology adopters in America, that cuts through every AI decision a family or classroom faces. You'll leave with a different view of school, of success, and of what education was for all along — and a one-page card that holds the tools. One caution before you sign up. If what you want is homework help, classroom AI tools, and guardrails against cheating — AI absorbed into the schooling model the way we've absorbed every previous disruptive technology — there are hundreds of resources for that, and this isn't one of them. This is for parents, teachers, and students who suspect AI has changed the game itself and want to discover what it makes possible beneath the surface: real learning, real-life agency, real competence. It's free. Bring someone who's been waiting for this conversation. REGISTER HERE. The recording will also be available to those who register. College Student Success with AI A Free Library 2.0 / Learning Revolution Workshop with Steve Hargadon A few years ago I gave a talk at Google. One slide showed the top 10% of students — the ones school worked for, the "good learners." Afterward, a group of Google interns came up to correct me: "We were in that group. But we didn't see ourselves as good learners. We were good at the game." That correction changed how I understand school, and it's where this talk begins. This is not a session on catching cheaters or writing better prompts. It's an honest hour for college students about what school was actually measuring, why AI has suddenly made that arrangement visible — and what's still genuinely theirs: the thinking, the judgment, the confidence in their own minds that the game never gave anyone, including its winners. If you work with college students, or love one, this is the conversation almost nobody is having with them: not the alarmed adult, not the AI cheerleader, but a third thing. Send it to parents or students who are ready for it. REGISTER HERE. The recording will also be available to those who register. STEVE HARGADON Steve is the founder and director of the Learning Revolution Project, the director of Library 2.0, the host of the Future of Education and Reinventing School interview series, and has been the founder and chair (or co-chair) of a number of annual worldwide virtual events, including the Global Education Conference and the Library 2.0 series of mini-conferences and webinars. He has run over 100 large-scale events, online and in person. He has hosted over 100 AI events, created the online Encyclopedia of AI, and blogs extensively about AI and its impact on teaching and learning. His library and education work has been around the democratization of learning and professional development. He supported and encouraged the development of thousands of other education-related networks, particularly for professional development, and he pioneered the use of live, virtual, and peer-to-peer education conferences. He popularized the idea of "unconferences" for educators and, for over a decade, ran a large annual ed-tech unconference, now called Hack Education (formerly EduBloggerCon). Steve himself built one of the first modern social networks for teachers in 2007 (Classroom 2.0), developed the "conditions of learning" exercise for local educational conversation and change, and inherited and grew the Library 2.0 online community. He may or may not have invented an early version of the Chromebook, which he demoed to Google. He blogs, speaks, and consults on education, educational technology, and education reform, and his virtual and physical events and online communities have over 150,000 members. His professional website is SteveHargadon.com. OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS: August 20, 2026 August 28, 2026 September 11, 2026 September 16, 2026 Fall 2026

High School Student Success with AI
A Free Library 2.0 / Learning Revolution Workshop with Steve Hargadon

I've spent my career in educational technology, and this is the talk I've been circling the whole time.

AI can now do a student's homework better than the student can. Nearly everything being said about this — the detection tools, the policies, the "responsible use" frameworks — is an attempt to protect a system that stopped working the moment fluent output became free. This hour is about what that moment is revealing: that school has been running on a bargain, compliance in exchange for a credential, and that the bargain is now failing on both sides at once. AI isn't breaking education. It's exposing it — and the costs will fall hardest on the students and families who see it last.

In sixty minutes: why the report card can no longer see the difference between a student whose thinking is growing and one whose thinking is quietly being replaced; a short exercise that will show you, from your own memory, what real learning has always required; and one question, borrowed from the most deliberate technology adopters in America, that cuts through every AI decision a family or classroom faces. You'll leave with a different view of school, of success, and of what education was for all along — and a one-page card that holds the tools.

One caution before you sign up. If what you want is homework help, classroom AI tools, and guardrails against cheating — AI absorbed into the schooling model the way we've absorbed every previous disruptive technology — there are hundreds of resources for that, and this isn't one of them. This is for parents, teachers, and students who suspect AI has changed the game itself and want to discover what it makes possible beneath the surface: real learning, real-life agency, real competence. It's free. Bring someone who's been waiting for this conversation.

College Student Success with AI
A Free Library 2.0 / Learning Revolution Workshop with Steve Hargadon

A few years ago I gave a talk at Google. One slide showed the top 10% of students — the ones school worked for, the "good learners." Afterward, a group of Google interns came up to correct me: "We were in that group. But we didn't see ourselves as good learners. We were good at the game."

That correction changed how I understand school, and it's where this talk begins. This is not a session on catching cheaters or writing better prompts. It's an honest hour for college students about what school was actually measuring, why AI has suddenly made that arrangement visible — and what's still genuinely theirs: the thinking, the judgment, the confidence in their own minds that the game never gave anyone, including its winners.

If you work with college students, or love one, this is the conversation almost nobody is having with them: not the alarmed adult, not the AI cheerleader, but a third thing. Send it to parents or students who are ready for it.

STEVE HARGADON

Steve is the founder and director of the Learning Revolution Project, the director of Library 2.0, the host of the Future of Education and Reinventing School interview series, and has been the founder and chair (or co-chair) of a number of annual worldwide virtual events, including the Global Education Conference and the Library 2.0 series of mini-conferences and webinars. He has run over 100 large-scale events, online and in person.

He has hosted over 100 AI events, created the online Encyclopedia of AI, and blogs extensively about AI and its impact on teaching and learning. His library and education work has been around the democratization of learning and professional development. He supported and encouraged the development of thousands of other education-related networks, particularly for professional development, and he pioneered the use of live, virtual, and peer-to-peer education conferences. He popularized the idea of "unconferences" for educators and, for over a decade, ran a large annual ed-tech unconference, now called Hack Education (formerly EduBloggerCon).

Steve himself built one of the first modern social networks for teachers in 2007 (Classroom 2.0), developed the "conditions of learning" exercise for local educational conversation and change, and inherited and grew the Library 2.0 online community. He may or may not have invented an early version of the Chromebook, which he demoed to Google. He blogs, speaks, and consults on education, educational technology, and education reform, and his virtual and physical events and online communities have over 150,000 members.

His professional website is SteveHargadon.com.

OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS:

August 20, 2026