Hack Education

The free online gradebook LearnBoost has added a long awaited feature: reporting. The new feature takes the data from the gradebook in order to generate graphics that give teachers a real-time view of students' progress. The reporting feature has two major views: one for a class and one for students....

Seattle tech blog TechFlash reports that online language learning company Livemocha has partnered with Telefonica Brazil to offer its broadband customers significant discounts on Livemocha's English courses -- R$4.90 per month, compared to the regular price of R$40 per month. According to TechFlash, this is part of a larger deal...

The news for e-books has been pretty jubilant lately: Amazon says the Kindle was its bestselling product ever. Barnes & Noble reports 2010 was their best holiday season ever, spurred in large part by sales of the Nook. The USA Today says that following the holidays, e-books are outselling print...

Arizona State University announced its plans today to adopt Knewton's adaptive learning technology for several of its math courses. Knewton is probably better known as a provider of GMAT, LSAT, and SAT prep courses, but now the technology the company uses to deliver personalized test prep will be applied to...

(But Do We Really Need an App for That?) I noticed a question on Quora the other day (and no, this isn't a Quora-is-the-future-of-journalism story): Is there a Khan Academy app similar to the TED app that allows someone to easily watch Khan Academy videos from a mobile device? One...

Learning management system startup Schoology has released an iPhone app (iTunes link). Via the app, students and teachers will be able to manage classes, assignments, grades as well as participate in discussions and communicate with each other. Teachers will be able to create assignments, events, and discussions from within the...

It's a technology ripe, perhaps, for horror-filled headlines: South Korea is testing robot teachers in the classroom. But rather than tap into the fears of robots-stealing-our-jobs and teachers-replaced-with-YouTube, I think it's worth thinking about telepresence (somewhat) calmly. After all, many people (myself included) responded positively to Sugata Mitra's TED talk...

The ReadWriteWeb writers have been publishing our predictions for 2011. (Mine, quite broad and not that brave, are here.) I have some more specific education technology predictions, but as I write them, they feel sorta glum. I do think education technology will be big - HUGE - in 2011. I...

Well, I really only get credit for the "best of the second half of 2010" since I started this blog in June. And let my say right here: "best domain name ever." Since I started collecting my ed-tech thoughts here (as opposed to on my personal blog), I've been incredibly...

I'm always on the lookout for tools that help kids -- well, all folks really -- how to code. So add this to the list: Hackety-Hack. Hackety-Hack is an app designed to teach complete beginners how to program in Ruby. The step-by-step guide walks you through some on the basics...