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New Year’s Predictions It’s customary this time of year for bloggers and journalists and pundits alike to make their predictions for the new year. I’ve done so in the past (See: 2011, 2012). But I’m skipping out on the tradition in 2013. In part, it’s because I can’t possibly write...

Most Popular Posts of 2012 1. Codecademy and the Future of (Not) Learning to Code, October 28, 2011 2. The Wrath Against Khan: Why Some Educators Are Questioning Khan Academy, July 19, 2011 3. The Real Reason I Dropped Out of a PhD Program, August 29, 2012 4. The Failure of OLPC,...

A relatively quiet week what with everyone focused on the Mayan Apocalypse, Christmas, and whatnot. Law and Politics The state of California has been denied its No Child Left Behind waiver, according to KQED. The Obama Administration has offered these waivers to states, giving them a way out of some...

It’s that time of year. Review what I’ve done. Think about what I want to do next. Make note of what remains undone and incomplete before I take on new projects in the new year. Here, in no particular order, are the projects I have on my plate for the...

Steve Hargadon and I recorded our last podcast of 2012 today, making our way through the rest of the Top Ed-Tech Trends that I've written about here on Hack Education over the course of the last few weeks. As such, this episode covers open textbooks, education data, learning analytics, APIs,...

It probably goes without saying, but I’ll type it out anyway: 2012 was an incredible year for education technology startups. Launches. Updates. Funding. Acquisitions. Adoption. Headlines. Disruptions. Drama. Politics. Buzz. Hype. Revolutions. And stuff. With all that’s happened this year, making a list of the “top” new education technology startups...

Law and Politics The FTC unveiled the latest version of COPPA (the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act) this week. I covered this news a bit in my recent look at the “politics of ed-tech” because certainly some of the wording here is a result of lobbying from the Internet tech...

1. The Business of Ed-Tech 2. The Maker Movement 3. Learning to Code 4. The Flipped Classroom 5. MOOCs 6. The Battle to Open Textbooks 7. Education Data and Learning Analytics 8. The Platforming of Education 9. Automation and Artificial Intelligence 10. The Politics of Ed-Tech (Notably missing from my...

Part 10 of my Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012 series Education is political — inherently so and despite the protestations from some quarters when what happens in our schools, in our textbooks, in our brains “becomes politicized.” Education is political not simply because of the governmental role — federal, state,...

Part 9 of my Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012 series. On Saturday, I took a ride in one of Google’s self-driving cars. “This will be the most incredibly boring drive ever,” joked the car’s developer Sebastian Thrun. Incredibly boring indeed. I mean, sure, the trip was utterly uneventful: the car...