Hack Education

The State of the Union is... something. Education was a featured topic in Obama's Tuesday night speech. In other news, everyone is swearing they're going to protect student data, just as we learn healthcare.gov shares people's data with advertisers and as Illinois schools can now demand students' social media passwords....

A look at two early twentieth century testing machines: one, patented by Reynold Johnson, used "mark sense" technology to identify pencil lead marks; the other, patented by Everett Lindquist used "optical mark recognition" to "see" marks on paper. Both machines were used to scale standardized testing - specifically, multiple choice testing....

This was by far the most difficult talk I have ever written, and to stand up in front of an audience to talk about this, even more so. It is one thing to be "mansplained" about ed-tech. It's quite another to get death threats for being critical about it....

My year-end review of all things education technology. (A mammoth undertaking! Support my work!) What happened in 2014: MOOCs, money, politics, privatization, outsourcing, privacy violations, sexism, death threats, community-building, bullshit, resistance to the bullshit, and me running all over the world trying to warn folks. You've been warned....

A collection of fourteen talks that I delivered over the course of 2014. The title comes from a keynote I gave entitled "Ed-Tech's Monsters" in which I argued that, much like Frankenstein's monster, we have created monstrous ed-tech because we have neglected to care for our ed-tech creations....

A look at two early twentieth century testing machines: one, patented by Reynold Johnson, used "mark sense" technology to identify pencil lead marks; the other, patented by Everett Lindquist used "optical mark recognition" to "see" marks on paper. Both machines were used to scale standardized testing - specifically, multiple choice testing....