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Maggie's Digital Content Farm
I was asked to be a "guest speaker" for Digital Writing Month. Here's my contribution, my provocation. This first appeared on the DigiWriMo blog and on Hybrid Pedagogy. Ed-tech likes to see itself as a...
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The Future of Education: Programmed or Programmable
Here is the transcript of my talk tonight at Pepperdine University. Many thanks to Linda Polin for inviting me to speak to her students.When people ask me how I ended up becoming an education...
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Hack Education Weekly News: US Midterm Elections
US Midterm ElectionsAmericans voted on Tuesday — or, a small percentage of them did. According to early figures, about 36.6% of the eligible population cast their ballot in this year’s midterm...
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Convivial Tools in an Age of Surveillance
Here is the transcript from my talk today at NYU, as part of the ECT Colloqium Series. No slides. Because, ugh, slides. Many thanks for the invitation, as coordinated by Sava Saheli Singh.I’m very...
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Hack Education Weekly News: Free MOOC Credentials for Veterans
Congratulations to the European Science Agency, which this week landed the Philae spacecraft on a comet – the first such landing in history. Amazing. But a big thumbs-down to the agency and...
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Digital Labor & Geographies of Crisis #DL14
I participated on a panel this morning at the Digital Labor conference. The panel title: Digital Labor & Geographies of Crisis. On the panel: Karen Gregory, Daniel Joseph, Matthew Tiessen, Austin...
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From "Open" to Justice #OpenCon2014
Here are the transcript and slides from the talk I gave this morning at OpenCon 2014. I was a little nervous as to how well this would be received -- nothing like challenging the meaning of a word that...
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Men Explain Technology to Me: On Gender, Ed-Tech, and the Refusal to Be Silent
Here are the notes and the slides from what is (I hope) my last talk of 2014. I gave this this evening to University of Mary Washington, and then turned around and presented it again (online) to Alec...
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Hack Education Weekly News: Feminist Hacker Barbie
Education Law and PoliticsPresident Obama took executive action on immigration reform this week, offering limited legal status (a temporary reprieve from deportation, that is) to up to five million of...
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Hack Education Weekly News: #Ferguson
In previous years, the week of Thanksgiving often means that I write something like “not a lot of news out of the US” as folks focus on turkey, football, and shopping. Not this year. Not this week.It’s...
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The Monsters of Education Technology
I was supposed to spend 2014 finishing my first book Teaching Machines. But that didn’t happen. It didn’t happen for a lot of reasons, many of which have to do with the economic realities of being a...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: Buzzwords
Part 1 of my Top 10 Ed-Tech Trends of 2014 seriesIt’s time once again for my annual review of the dominant trends in education technology. This is the fifth year that I’ve done this. It’s a massive...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: The Business of Ed-Tech
Part 2 of my Top 10 Trends of 2014 seriesI usually end my analysis of all the trends in ed-tech on the topic of “the business of ed-tech.” (See: 2013, 2012, 2011.) Because “the business of ed-tech”...
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Hack Education Weekly News: FBI Seizes LAUSD iPad Documents
The LAUSD iPad Saga Continues: A Federal Grand Jury InvestigationFBI agents took some 20 boxes of documents from LAUSD offices in what looks to be a federal grand jury investigation into the deal with...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: School and "Skills"
Part 3 in my Top 10 Trends of 2014 seriesOne of the challenges of pulling together this year end series is that education technology doesn’t break down neatly into ten separate trends. “The Business of...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: MOOCs, Outsourcing, and Online Education
Part 4 in my Top 10 Trends of 2014 seriesMOOOOOOOOOOOOOCs!First there were MOOCs. Then there were MOOCs!!!111 Then we witnessed the MOOC backlash. Then the MOOC backlash backlash. And maybe even the...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: Competencies and Certificates
Part 5 in my Top 10 Trends of 2014 seriesI’m not a big fan of using the Hype Cycle to explain the adoption of technologies. The Hype Cycle is a great piece of marketing for the research firm Gartner,...
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I’m halfway through my year-end review of (what I think are) the important trends in education technology in 2014.The word count for the series so far hovers around 25,000, and I have a lot more to...
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Hack Education Weekly News
Education Law and PoliticsThe US House of Representatives (barely) passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill this week. While education spending will remain mostly flat, there are a number of cuts to...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: The Common Core State Standards
Part 6 in my Top 10 Trends of 2014 seriesLast year, I opened my look at the trend I then called “standards” by looking at the number of edits to the Wikipedia entry for the Common Core State Standards....
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