Hack Education

Earlier this week, I wrote a story about why startups should be involved in open source, referencing the work that LearnBoost has done in that area. And the following day, the startup open sourced another one of the tools it's developed, Soda. At the risk of sounding like the rogue...

I have had "Review Knack for Teachers" on my To-Do list for a while now. And I want to apologize in advance to app creator Jarrod Drysdale, because I just looked at the date of the first time he emailed me. And ooof. I am slow. And looking at that...

You know how I wrote about LearnBoost and Grockit yesterday, well I'm writing about them again today. Because that's how I roll. Or that's how the news comes in. Or something. LearnBoost and Open Source The story about LearnBoost is over on ReadWriteWeb. Well, it's not about LearnBoost per se....

I have a number of ed-tech tools that I've promised to review, and as such I've been thinking about the rubric I use (or maybe I should use) to evaluate products that are designed for the classroom, that are meant to enhance teaching and learning, that are purporting to make...

Social learning platform Grockit became the first educational app to be part of Google's App Marketplace today. This is a great addition for schools utilizing Google Apps for Education, as students will have access to Grockit's premium features for free through the end of 2010. See my ReadWriteWeb coverage here....

Today is the first day of Isaiah's last year of school. He's a senior and hopes to graduate this spring. It's been a rough road for him for a number of reasons. An incredibly smart and verbal kid (he started talking at 8 months), he's never enjoyed school. I made...

I remain deeply skeptical, if not outright opposed to the whole "value-add" method of teacher evaluation. As I've argued before, if we get too caught up in tracking test scores, we will miss out on a lot of other things we need to look at to assess teaching and learning....

Social bookmarking site Diigo announced earlier this week that it was changing its pricing model, offering premium, ad-free accounts with more features and better support. Diigo will still offer a free version, as well as a free version for educators, but both of these have some limitations. In the free...

Ewan McIntosh points to the Scottish Secretary of Education who seems to recognize that social learning networks need to pay attention to students-users and be better than Facebook. Scotland is currently developing Glow, a country-wide intranet for the school system. Apple changes some of the restrictions for mobile app developers....

Another day, another message in my inbox touting a "revolutionary" new educational product. Yes, I realize that sounds flippant. And maybe, this time I'll be proven wrong. Maybe. After all, the announcement today was about Kno, a dual-screen tablet that has secured $46 million in its latest round of financing...