Part 7 of 10. And, my apologies, it's another really long one. This one looks at data and privacy. It's the third year in a row that I've written about data as one of my "top trends." And I feel like in previous years, I was a lot more generous about the potentials for data and learning analytics. This year -- thanks Edward Snowden -- I'm fairly grim. [...]
Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013: Hardware
Part 6 of my 10-part year-end series. We spend a lot of time in ed-tech talking about the Internet, about the Web, about software. But it all relies on hardware. And I think this was a year in which we saw schools really (re)embrace tech procurement. Of course, much of the story -- the good and the bad -- dealt with iPads. But a nod too to the Maker Movement again here, as there are a number of small and cheap computing devices that have a much more interesting potential than buying iPads. And far less likely to cost a district $1 billion plus, as LAUSD's iPad disaster just might. [...]
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Hack Education Weekly News: PISA Scores Confirm that [Fill in the Blank with Education Narrative of Your Choice]
I'm several days late posting my weekly round-up of education news. My excuse: I've been in Paris, where I found a shortage of WiFi and an abundance of red wine. So apologies. This post is a little light... [...]
Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013: Coding and "Making"
Part 5 of my ten part series on the top trends in ed-tech this year. Here I've combined two things I wrote about in separate posts last year: the "learn to code" and the "maker" movements. I've combined them not because they've diminished in significance (to the contrary). But I do think that in some ways, the maker movement is being drowned out by the "learn to code" stuff, in part because it fits more neatly into the "STEM shortage" crisis narrative. [...]
Hack Education Weekly News: Chicago Public Schools Ditch inBloom
Not a lot of news this week as it's the Thanksgiving holiday in the US (a day of food-related gluttony followed by a day of shopping-frenzied awfulness.) But there were enough work-days this week for CPS to ditch inBloom, for Pearson to ditch its financial services section, for Valleywag to stir up drama about Code.org, for MIT to declare the future is with edX, and so on and on and on. [...]
Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013: MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs
Part 4 of 10. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. Coming in at under 8,000 words -- which is still way too many -- this article attempts to chronicle all that happened with MOOCs this year. Pushing the MOOC agenda forward, and pushing back against it. [...]
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Audrey Watters is an education writer, rabble-rouser, rambler, recovering academic, lifelong learner, serial dropout, part-time badass, mom.
Recommended Reading
- The Myth and Millennialism of "Disruptive Innovation", May 24, 2013
- Click Here to Save Education: Evgeny Morozov and Ed-Tech Solutionism, March 26, 2013
- Hacking at Education: TED, Technology Entrepreneurship, Uncollege, and the Hole in the Wall, March 3, 2013
- Top 10 Ed-Tech Startups of 2012, December 21, 2012
- The Real Reason I Dropped Out of a PhD Program, August 29, 2012
- "The Audrey Test": Or, What Should Every Techie Know About Education?, March 17, 2012
- Apple and the Digital Textbook Counter-Revolution, January 19, 2012
- Codecademy and the Future of (Not) Learning to Code, October 28, 2011
- The Wrath Against Khan: Why Some Educators Are Questioning Khan Academy, July 19, 2011
- For Mr. Callahan, March 20, 2011
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