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Paying to Learn (to Program)
Why pay to learn to code? With the explosion in the availability of free material online that can help you learn to code – Udacity, Coursera, Codecademy and the like – why pay for a computer science...
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Hack Education Weekly Ed-Tech Podcast
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...
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TeachBoost: A Teacher Evaluation and Teacher Development Tool
One of the cornerstones of the Obama Administration’s Race to the Top (RTTT) initiative has been the demand that states improve “teacher effectiveness.” In theory at least it’s hard to argue with such...
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More Digital Textbooks For Sale in More College Bookstores (So What?)
Interactive textbook publisher Inkling announced today that it’s struck a distribution partnership with Follett, the largest college bookstore retailer in the industry. Follett, which operates some...
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LibraryBox: A P2P, DIY Library
Inside NYU art professor David Darts’ black metal lunchbox, painted with a white skull and crossbones, is the PirateBox – a tiny Linux server, a wireless router, and a battery. Turn the PirateBox on...
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Crowdfunding the "Ungluing" of E-Books
The crowdfunding of creative projects has become incredibly popular lately (and at times, incredibly lucrative), most notably this past week when the Pebble E-Paper Watch crossed the $10 million...
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This Week in Ed-Tech News: Google's Knowledge Graph and Facebook's IPO
The Facebook IPO This is one of those news items that you’re welcome to say “Wait, Audrey. This isn’t education technology.” And you’re right. It’s not. But it still matters: Facebook went public...
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What Is "Ed-Tech"?
What is “Ed-Tech”? What is “ed-tech”? What do we mean when we talk – or at least, what do I mean when I talk – about education technology? I’ve been stewing about this a lot this week, in part thanks...
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LearnSprout: Breaking Down Education's Data Silos
Usually when I interview a startup’s founders and prepare to write a story about them and their product, I ask for screenshots. I could grab them myself, I suppose, but the ones that founders share...
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Grockit Launches Learnist, a Pinterest for Education
Pinterest and Education When Pinterest exploded onto the scene this year, I noticed a lot of teacher-friends following me there (confession: I never use the service but yes I have an account). I...
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On Graduation Speeches and YouTube
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...
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Open Education Summit, Storified
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This Week in Ed-Tech News: Making More Makers
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...
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Coursera's CS101: A (Complete!) Course Evaluation
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...
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Entrepreneurship and Education
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...
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Hack Education Weekly Podcast
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...
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Inkling Finally Brings Its Interactive Textbooks to the Web
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....
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New & Noteworthy Educational Apps, May 2012
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...
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This Week in Ed-Tech News: Estimating the Costs of the Common Core
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...
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