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The Early Days of Educational TV Even its earliest days, educational broadcasting – both radio and television – struggled to compete with commercial providers as the latter were often opposed to dedicating bandwidth for specifically educational channels. (Commercial providers argued too – and this will sound familiar to today’s debates...

Education Politics The Tories’ win in the UK elections could have a major impact on education. Presidential campaigning updates: Huckabee (Common Core bad). Clinton (debt-free college?). Via Inside Higher Ed: “It took the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, on average, 1,469 days to complete campus sexual assault...

This talk was delivered today at Davidson College at its Annual Teaching Showcase Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. I’m particularly pleased to be at a Center for Teaching and Learning, since I spend a lot of time muttering angrily about the powerful narratives I notice...

This article first appeared on Educating Modern Learners in February 2015 Once again, students' technology usage is prompting panic. This time, the scare involves anonymous messaging apps. This past week alone, the following headlines crossed my desk: "Do your kids Yik Yak? Time for a chat." "The Folly of Banning...

Among the things that (education) technology is supposed to revolutionize: memory. Memory in computers is not wholly analogous to memory in humans, of course, despite using that same word to describe what we are increasingly coming to think of as a process of information storage and retrieval. Human memory is...

I’ve updated the spreadsheet where I’m tracking on this year's ed-tech investment. Here are JSON files for startup funding (broken down by investors), acquisitions, and mergers. It’s only been a month since I reviewed Q1 2015’s ed-tech investment data, but with the acquisition of Lynda.com by LinkedIn this month, I...

Education Politics Via the AP: “Linking reading to technology, the White House marshaled major book publishers to provide more than $250 million in free e-books to low-income students and is seeking commitments from local governments and schools across the country to ensure that every student has a library card.” The...

This post first appeared on aud.life Electrical Research Products, Inc (ERPI) was a subsidiary of the Western Electric Company (which was the manufacturing division of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company -- that is, AT&T). Founded in the late 1920s, the organization believed that non-theatrical films could be a huge...

This post first appeared on aud.life Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, "memex" will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records,...

This post first appeared on aud.life I transcribed the part of Sal Khan and Michael Noer's "History of Education" video that was relevant to my recent post on "The Invented History of 'The Factory Model of Education.'" I didn't include it in the article (it added another thousand or so...