Hack Education

Definition: Open Education is the idea that learning should be free and openly accessible. Thanks in no small part to Internet technologies, it is becoming far easier for educational opportunities to be created and shared outside the realm of more traditional institutional settings. List of Resources: Creative Commons is a...

I'm a self-described gamer, although truth be told, I don't have a lot of time for games these days. It's been almost a year since I was "a hardcore raider." I try to keep track of gaming news. I'm genuinely interested. Well, that and I have a 17 year old...

As I note weekly on my blog, there are a lot of stories that I just don't get a chance to write. And I created Hack Education, in part, so I could think about the how/why/what of that. But it seems -- no big surprise -- that I've not had...

In addition to starting wikis for EdTech blogs and EdTech startups, I am starting a calendar for EdTech events. As with the other two, this is partly for my own research. And as with the other two, it's a project that's much closer to "idea" than to "implementation." The only...

There's always a lot of hullaballoo about protecting children's safety and privacy online. There's a lot of hand-wringing and a lot of smoke-and-mirrors and when things go awry, a lot of blame. There are a couple of pieces of legislation that dictate the steps schools, libraries and businesses must take...

When it comes to e-readers on my iPhone and iPad, I can't seem to commit myself to one application wholeheartedly or exclusively. That's not a bad thing, necessarily. I mean, I'd like my electronic reading material to be portable and accessible no matter the program I utilize. (I don't want...

Despite the arguments Nicholas Carr makes in his essay "Experiments in delinkification," I think that hyperlinked texts and digital stories are rich and valid forms of expression. I wrote some of my thoughts about Carr's argument here. And here, I'd like to list a few recommended stories that, I think,...

Sir Ken Robinson's February TED talk is finally available online. He begins by speaking of a second climate crisis we face: a "crisis of human resources." He goes on to point to the ways in which the education system "dislocates people from their natural talents." Arguing that we have to...

Although this site is a culmination of a lot of years' work and consideration, it's very much "under construction" at the moment. I did get Google Apps set up today, which gives me access to email, docs, calendar, and wikis. It's the latter that's particularly important. I've created two wikis:...

When I list nouns to describe who I am, I typically include the following: writer, geek, former academic. Those three coalesce around my interest in educational technology. I try to write about edtech as often as I can (with some of my writing gigs that is, indeed, my assignment). But...