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Education Law and Politics “An Open Letter To The White Teachers Who Wore NYPD T-Shirts To School” Via The LA Times, “L.A. Unified Supt. John Deasy has filed a public records request seeking emails and other documents involving school board members and nearly two dozen companies including those at the...

This post first appeared on Educating Modern Learners “You keep using that word,” says Inigo Montoya. “I do not think it means what you think it means.” I always think of this line from the 1987 classic movie The Princess Bride when I hear talk of “personalized learning.” On one...

Here are the notes and the slides from my talk today with Justin Reich's HGSE class "The Future of Learning at Scale." Between the jetlag (I got home from England late last night) and the fact that I've got way more to say about teaching machines than can fit into...

This post first appeared on Educating Modern Learners What is “Adaptive Technology”? “Adaptive software” is often named as one of the “hot new trends” in education technology. But adaptive learning is hardly new. Its roots date back decades, to the “intelligent tutoring systems” of the 1960s and 1970s when there...

Education Law and Politics Looks like the Department of Education screwed up FAFSA calculations again for a hundred thousand or so students. Well, at least there aren’t any high stakes efforts associated with the Department of Education being able to count and calculate and rate and rank things, right? Google...

Here are the notes and the slides from my talk today at Newcastle University. Thanks to everyone at NUTELA, particularly Suzanne Hardy, for sponsoring my trip up north. Beyond the LMS (Beyond the VLE) I gave a keynote on Wednesday at ALT about “Ed-tech’s Monsters” in which I was reminded...

Here are the notes and slides from my talk this morning at ALT-C 2014. Ed-Tech's Monsters On Monday, on our way up here to Coventry, we — that is, my mum, my boyfriend, and I — stopped at Bletchley Park, the site of the British government’s Code and Cypher School...

This post first appeared on Educating Modern Learners What is the Quantified Self Movement? We’ve written about this again and again here at EML, but it bears repeating: thanks to our increasing use of computer technologies, we are generating massive amounts of data. Almost every time we search or click...

OMFG LAUSD The LAUSD iPad clusterfuck continues. Late last week, several LA news organizations obtained and published emails between LAUSD, Apple, and Pearson officials. The emails reveal that Superintendent John Deasy began meeting with these companies to discuss the hardware/curriculum purchase almost a year before the multimillion dollar contract went...

For the fifth year in a row, I’ve asked educators to tell me what technology they’re most looking forward to bringing into the classroom with them this school year. I don’t ask that the technology itself be new. I’m interested, rather, in what’s new in educators’ teaching practices. Caveat: unscientific....