Hack Education

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. In this week's episode we discuss: 0:35:  My new feature on "new and noteworthy educational apps" and...

Politics and Policies 8 more states received No Child Left Behind waivers this week from the Department of Education – Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Rhode Island. That brings the total number of waivers to 19, with 18 states’ applications still under review. These waivers...

I’ve been weighing whether or not 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...

Cross-posted at Inside Higher Ed The interactive e-book publisher Inkling has finally released an HTML5 version of its app, meaning that its 150 titles are now available on both the iPad and the Web. Maybe it’s unfair to say “finally.” It has only been 2.5 years since the iPad was first unveiled...

I typically write that "every week, Steve Hargadon and I sit down for our weekly podcast."  But in this case, it's been two weeks.  As such, we blasted through a bunch of content, covering Maker Faire and the Open Education Summit -- two events we both attended -- as well...

Arguments (in 140 Characters or Less) A week or so ago, education historian Diane Ravitch and Department of Education spokesperson Justin Hamilton got into a bit of a sparring match on Twitter over the role of entrepreneurship in education. Their argument followed a tweet from Ravitch in which she posited...

Cross-posted at Inside Higher Ed I did it! I made it all the way through a MOOC, submitting the final assignment in Coursera’s Computer Science 101 this afternoon. I seem to have a penchant for signing up and dropping out of these massive online classes. I never made it too far...

Making More Makers The Maker Education Initiative was announced at Maker Faire this past weekend. Sponsored by Intel, Cognizant and O’Reilly Media, the Maker Education Initiative will help “create more opportunities for young people to make, and, by making, build confidence, foster creativity, and spark interest in science, technology, engineering,...

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I tend to avoid the graduation speeches that seem to go viral on YouTube this time of year. It's not a genre I find particularly compelling. A lot of platitudes. A lot of punchlines. That's not to say there haven't been great ones -- Steve Jobs' 2005 speech at Stanford,...