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Every week, Steve Hargadon and I sit down (virtually) to talk about the latest ed-tech news. I always find our conversation to be one of the most thought-provoking exchanges I have all week. This episode was recorded live as part of the plenary session we gave at the Emerging Technologies...

Earlier this year, I penned a post titled “The Audrey Test” in which I laid out a number of topics with which I argued education technologists (particularly ed-tech entrepreneurs) needed to be familiar if I was to take them at all seriously. The response – both in the comments section...

In May, I decided to re-institute a new monthly feature here, something that I used to write for MindShift: a post highlighting some of the new and updated educational apps that have been released over the past 30 days or so. Clearly this isn’t an exhaustive list of all the...

It's that time of year again, and I'd love to hear your thoughts.  (My coverage from 2010 and from 2011.) Loading...

I try to write here on Hack Education daily, and I'm pretty good about doing so. But the past few weeks have been a little crazy, and the next few days look to be more of the same. So don't look for much from me until Wednesday or Thursday. In...

RIP Sally Ride, educator, physicist, and the first American woman in outer space. Ride died of pancreatic cancer on July 23. Politics and Legalities The NCAA announced on Monday its fines against Penn State relating to the university’s role in the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal. The school will pay...

On Tuesday Apple issued its quarterly report, one that analysts are describing as “lackluster, ”disappointing,“ and a ”reality check“ – all despite $35 billion in revenue and $8.8 billion in profit. The company ”only" grew by 23%, its slowest since Q3 of 2009. The reason, in part: consumers may be...

News Corp and Education: Some Background Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp made two important acquisitions in November 2010: paying $360 million for a 90% stake in the educational content/assessment company Wireless Generation and hiring New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein. These were the first signs that News Corp was making...

Cross-posted at Inside Higher Ed I’m starting to get more than a little grumpy about MOOCs, what with all the hype about the revolutionary disruptions and game-changing tsunamis. I’m tired of the mainstream media punditry and their predictions that Stanford University’s experiments with online education (and by extension now Coursera and...