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Part 2 of my Top 10 Trends of 2014 series I usually end my analysis of all the trends in ed-tech on the topic of “the business of ed-tech.” (See: 2013, 2012, 2011.) Because “the business of ed-tech” really (sadly) sums up so handily most of what has happened in...

Part 1 of my Top 10 Ed-Tech Trends of 2014 series It’s time once again for my annual review of the dominant trends in education technology. This is the fifth year that I’ve done this. It’s a massive undertaking, aided in part by the weekly roundups of all the education-related...

I was supposed to spend 2014 finishing my first book Teaching Machines. But that didn’t happen. It didn’t happen for a lot of reasons, many of which have to do with the economic realities of being a woman outside of academia, outside of mainstream journalism writing about ed-tech. Strangely, I...

In previous years, the week of Thanksgiving often means that I write something like “not a lot of news out of the US” as folks focus on turkey, football, and shopping. Not this year. Not this week. It’s been just over 100 days since police officer Darren Wilson shot and...

This post first appeared on Educating Modern Learners As schools in the Northern Hemisphere are poised to kick off the new school year, they’re likely sending home a flurry of permission slips for parents and guardians to sign. Permissions for the student directory, permissions for field trips, permissions for sports...

Education Law and Politics President Obama took executive action on immigration reform this week, offering limited legal status (a temporary reprieve from deportation, that is) to up to five million of the country’s 11.4 million undocumented immigrants. The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed examine the potential impact...

This post first appeared on Educating Modern Learners What is Competency-Based Education? “Competency-based education” (CBE) is being hailed by some as a way to rethink education — to save money and to boost "outcomes." Often, competency-based education is framed as a way to save (students’) time. Rather than moving students...

Here are the notes and the slides from what is (I hope) my last talk of 2014. I gave this this evening to University of Mary Washington, and then turned around and presented it again (online) to Alec Couros and Katia Hildebrandt's class EC&I 831. This is (I think) the...

Here are the transcript and slides from the talk I gave this morning at OpenCon 2014. I was a little nervous as to how well this would be received -- nothing like challenging the meaning of a word that makes up the title of the conference. This is one of...

I participated on a panel this morning at the Digital Labor conference. The panel title: Digital Labor & Geographies of Crisis. On the panel: Karen Gregory, Daniel Joseph, Matthew Tiessen, Austin Walker, Dan Greene, and myself. I've included my notes, along with the image that I used to frame my...