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title: "Educon Conversation, better late than never."
date: 2009-05-28
url: https://learningischange.com/2009/05/28/educon-conversation-better-late-than-never/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# Educon Conversation, better late than never.

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I have been going back through some of my audio files recently and I found a really good conversation from Educon 2.1.

This conversation was from [John Pederson](http://ijohnpederson.com/)‘s Session, [The Networked Learning Manifesto: Welcoming Parents into the Conversation.](http://educon21.wikispaces.com/Conversations#e211-4)

[You can find the actual Manifesto that sparked the conversation here](http://www.ijohnpederson.com/networked-learning-manifesto/).

The participants that I recognize from the audio are:

- [Will Richardson](http://weblogg-ed.com/)
- [David Warlick](http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/)
- [Kevin Jarrett](http://www.ncs-tech.org/)
- [Bud Hunt](http://www.budtheteacher.com/)
- [Zac Chase](http://misterchase.wordpress.com/)
- [Andy Carvin](http://twitter.com/acarvin)

There are many voices that I don’t immediately remember or recognize, however. Which is a little sad because there are a lot of really good voices in the room.

[The original recording for the session is here](http://educon21.wikispaces.com/211-4), but I believe that the audio isn’t quite as good as this excerpt. [There is also a follow up conversation at Parents as Partners.](http://www.ourschool.ca/john-pederson-on-the-network-learning-manifesto.html)

This is the kind of conversation that I need to keep reminding myself to come back to. Some very smart things were said about going to where parents are and becoming a person to them first before trying to “get them on board” with technology and networked learning.

I hope that we all follow up on the promise that this conversation evoked.

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### Author: **Ben Wilkoff**

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