Hack Education

eduClipper: I got my early access today to Adam Bellow’s newest venture, eduClipper. I have been hounding him to let me have a peek for a while now. I hound because I care, I hope he realizes, because like the 3000+ teachers who’ve already signed up for the waiting list...

HACK(ING) SCHOOL(ING) Another One Week, One "Book" Project Jon Becker and I are pleased to announce a new project: Hacking Schooling. The project and the process borrow liberally from 2010’s Hacking the Academy, which called for scholars to consider the ways in which digital culture and digital technologies were reshaping...

Cross-posted at e-Literate I admit: I don’t read Terms of Service agreements before hitting the “Accept” button. I doubt many folks do, save the lawyers who actually write them. As such, it’s hard for me to write an article wagging my finger at those of us who adopt software only...

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 week's podcast was a short one -- having Independence Day fall in the middle of the...

Virginia Commonwealth University professor Jon Becker recently drew the diagram below to illustrate what he identified as some of the dichotomies in our discussions about MOOCs and online higher education: Content and community on the X-axis. Residential to non-residential on the Y-axis.  I think I’d want to add more axes too –...

Late last week, I took to Twitter to rant about Twitter and my inability to access all the tweets from the #ISTE12 hashtag due to limitations on the Twitter Search API – yes, I realize the irony, compounded by my decision to “storify” a conversation about not owning my own...

Politics and the Law A federal judge has struck down the Department of Education’s “gainful employment” rules, which the Obama Adminstration issued last year and were designed to stop career training and for-profit schools from leaving students with massive amounts of debt but no job prospects. The for-profit schools had opposed the...

At the bottom of this post, I’ve “storified” some of the Tweets, videos, and articles about MTT2K, Mystery Teacher Theater 2000.    I think MTT2K, the Mystery Science Theater 3000-style video campaign satirizing Khan Academy, is one of the most interesting developments in education technology so far this year. Many educators have tried...

A number of initiatives and startups are hoping to offers ways to give people some sort of formal(ized) recognition for their informal learning – or at least for the skills they possess for which they don’t have official diplomas or degrees. Among them: Mozilla’s Open Badges project, the social endorsement site Skills.to, the...

I've already asked this week, "who will benefit from badges?" I don't want to rehash that. But I do think we need to think about the promises of "unbundling education,” and notice what we're repackaging elsewhere -- courses, content, access, power. A Closer Look At LearningJar That’s a pretty critical opening...