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Every week, Steve Hargadon and I sit down to talk about the latest ed-tech news and the posts I've written here on Hack Education. I always find our conversation to be one of the most thought-provoking exchanges I have all week. It's only been a week since Steve and I...

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. I say “or so” here as this is just...

Politics and Policies Legislators in DC have reached an agreement on student loans, but it’s really not worth celebrating. Much of the debate about this issue has revolved around not raising the interest rates on federally subsidized student loans. And the rates won’t go up. But no longer will students...

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LaunchPad Toys has released its latest app, MonkeyGram (iTunes link) – a follow-up to its popular Toontastic storytelling app. One indication that popularity: some 300,000 Toontastic cartoons are created every month. That usage has given the folks at Launchpad a lot of data to see what kids are doing: the...

Cross-posted at Inside Higher Ed The announcements from the Day 1 Keynote at Google IO yesterday prompted my Inside Higher Ed colleague Joshua Kim to write a lament that there wasn’t an education angle to the news or an education focus to the products that Google unveiled on stage. (In...

Typically, discussions about this involve student information systems – students’ names and grades – and the inability for other applications that schools use to pull from or feed into them. But “student data” is more than that. Now it includes everything that a student does digitally. So when there is...

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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 week, we weren't virtual -- we were sitting together at the San Diego Convention Center.  Unfortunately,...

Politics and Policies The University of Virginia has become the frontline of the battle for control over public education this week, as the fallout and outrage over the Board of Visitors’ firing of President Theresa Sullivan continues. In FOIA-ed emails, it appears as though the BOV read a couple of...