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. Higher education is now fighting about AI in public — committee reports, bold embraces, outright bans, faculty rebelling against their own deans. Every side is arguing about what institutions should do. This talk turns to the person the fight is about and says the thing no policy can say: whatever they decide, you are the only one who can make these decisions for you. It's an honest hour for college students or those who advise them on 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, love one, or are one, this is the conversation almost nobody is having.
Friday, September 4, 2026 - 2:00 - 3:00 pm US Eastern Time
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.
