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. This week, we chatted about: 0:22 - My new addition to the Hack Education site, where I'm...

Earlier this month, the education startup incubator ImagineK12 held its second Demo Day, where its latest cohort of startups made their pitches to investors. I pointed to the write-up of Inigral’s Michael Staton in my weekly roundup of ed-tech news, but I realized this past week that I’ve done a...

RIP Maurice Sendak Protests Stanford University and Pearson are working on developing a new licensing procedure: teachers send the company 2 10 minute videos of themselves teacher, along with answers to a 40-page test. They pass, they’ll soon be able to get a teaching license in multiple states. Not so...

Why is Mathalicious raising money on Kickstarter? When I pose that question, I do so as a fan of both startups. Let me state that right up front, dear reader: I love the idea of crowdfunding of creative projects through Kickstarter. I support as many learning-focused projects as I can....

Ideally, I suppose, I should headline this post "5 Things I've Learned from MOOCs." That's likely what a course -- massive or online or open or not -- is supposed to have a student tout: what I learned. If I were being really forthright with my readers, I would headline...

A couple of quick updates: I’ve been maintaining a Tumblr site for some time now, where I’d post links to various ed-tech blogs, education-related stories and videos. I had a little sidebar on the right hand side of this site where I ran the Tumblr feed. The idea was for...

Protecting Children on the (Schools’) Internet Schools and libraries that receive federal E-rate funding (a program that helps underwrite their telecommunications and Internet costs) are required by CIPA, the Children’s Internet Protection Act, to create an Internet safety policy and filter or block certain kinds of websites. The law 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 episode includes discussion about: 0:47:  Curation versus RSS and my decision to not read tech...

What a crazy week for US education. Unrelated: I spent the week in Canada. History 42 years ago yesterday, National Guard troops opened fire on student anti-war protestors at Kent State University, killing four and injuring nine. Partnerships Harvard MOOCs are in the works, with the big news this week...

The Formation of a New Discipline It was a sentiment repeated several times throughout the Learning Analytics and Knowledge 2012 conference: this could the beginning of a new discipline. It’s something I’ve heard at recent big data events too (namely at O’Reilly Media’s Strata conferences): we are forming a new...