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Hack Education's Most Popular Posts of 2013
This blog's last post of the year, looking at the posts that garnered the most clicks in 2013. Only 3 of them were penned this year. 3 of them were written in the last days of 2012 (that is, they were...
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Hack Education Weekly News: A Temporary Reprieve for City College of San...
For being the week between Christmas and New Year's, there was a surprising amount of news - and it wasn't all "let's bury this news at the end of the year while everyone's on holiday" either. News...
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Predictions
Some ed-tech predictions for the new year. OK. Not really. I just spent the last 7 or 8 weeks writing at length about what I thought were the most important ed-tech trends of 2013. It's not as though...
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On Listing Education Innovators and Intellectuals
Three pronouncements this week. Three lists of innovators and intellectuals in education. From Forbes, its annual "30 Under 30" list. From the American Enterprise Institute's Rick Hess, "The 2014 RHSU...
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Hack Education Weekly News: The Polar Vortex
In this week's education news: school closures across the US due to brutally cold weather; a study into the reading levels of university football and basketball players; guilty pleas for those involved...
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The State of "Open" (2013)
Oops. I forgot to post my notes from a webinar I gave last year. I was asked to speak about "The State of OER" to AMICAL, a consortium of American liberal arts universities outside the US. No big...
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Education APIs: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (API Days Paris 2013)
Oops, I forgot to post the notes from my talk in Paris in December when I spoke at API Days. I was the killjoy who said we might want to think not simply about the wonders of technology -- ooh! ahh!...
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Hack Education Weekly News: RIP "The Professor," RIP Net Neutrality?
In this week's news: MOOCs and anti-MOOCs, White House datapalooza's and summits on education, the acquisition of Chuck E Cheese by a private equity firm, startup funding announcements galore, a court...
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Announcing "Educating Modern Learners"
Hey! I got a job! I'm the editor and lead writer for Educating Modern Learners, a new education website (launching in mid-February). I've written more thoughts about why I took the job over on my...
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Hack Education Weekly News: MOOC Research and More
In this week's news: MOOCs. MOOCs. MOOCs. Research about MOOCs. Research about Facebook. School shootings. Ridiculous statements from California Governor Jerry Brown about online education. Ridiculous...
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The Hype and Hope of MOOCs #moocdebate [Storified]
I sat on a panel yesterday at the OCLC Symposium in Philadelphia. The panel title: The Hype and Hope of MOOCs. The panel members: Bryan Alexander, Anya Kamenetz, Ray Schroeder, Cathy De Rosa, and me...
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The Privileged Voices in Education #Educon
A few thoughts from the "conversation" that José Vilson and I facilitated today at Educon. It's such an important conversation to have -- and a difficult one to be sure. From the classic essay by Peggy...
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Hack Education Weekly News: If MOOCs are Outlawed, Only Outlaws...
In this week's education news, President Obama delivered his State of the Union address. It was pretty dull. I think he mentioned education stuff. Atlanta was hit by a massive snowstorm that left...
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The History of the Future of Ed-Tech
Last summer, Bret Victor gave what I thought was one of the most interesting keynotes I've ever seen. The title: "The Future of Programming." The conceit: he pretended like he was delivering a talk in...
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Hack Education Weekly News: A Creationism Debate, Seriously?!
In this week's news: FCC promises to spend more money on broadband for schools and libraries. Tech companies throw in some stuff to sweeten the deal. (iPads for poor schools! Wheee!) McGraw-Hill went...
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Hack Education Weekly News: Harvard Alumni-only MOOCs, Pearson-based Badges,...
Happy Valentine's Day, lovers of learning. MOOCs were back in the news this way -- not in a big way, but in a funny way. And you know I love that. In heartbreaking news, it looks as though Comcast...
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Hack Education Weekly News: MOOCs, Money, and the Looming Clown Shortage
In this week's news: money money money money money. Also MOOCs, some job changes, a Presidential apology for making fun of art history majors, promises about net neutrality, tin foil hats in Missouri,...
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Hack Education Weekly News: Facebook's Online Education Plans for Rwanda
In this week's education news: Facebook teams up with edX to offer online education (and Facebook) to Rwanda. The Department of Education "clarifies" its privacy rules (where "clarifies" equals...
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SXSWedu. This Again.
SXSWedu brings together some of the leading voices in (US) education: politicians and policy wonks (at the state and federal level), industry folks (from startups and corporations), the money people...
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Hack Education Weekly News: A New SAT, New Amplify Curriculum, and More from...
Woohoo! SXSWedu! Wheeeee! News released in time with the event: new curriculum from Amplify! A revised SAT! Chromebooks! Analytics! Hype! And stuff. There was lots of other news too: Obama's budget for...
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