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And So, Without Ed-Tech Criticism...
This talk was given today at Scratch AMS 2015When I first started to think about what I wanted to say here today, I thought I’d talk about innovation and how confused if not backwards the ed-tech...
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Education PoliticsBritish Prime Minister David Cameron wants every school in England and Wales to become an academy (that is, a school independent of local control).Via Buzzfeed: “Education Department...
View ArticleTrauma and Learning
This article first appeared in Educating Modern Learners in June 2015Recently, five students along with three teachers filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Compton Unified School District (a...
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Education PoliticsTomorrow is the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting land. (It’s also the tenth anniversary of a very personal loss for me, and for this and a million other reasons I find...
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Adopt A Department of Education Dataset
My partner Kin Lane recently received a Knight Foundation prototype grant for a project he’s calling Adopta.Agency. The idea is to build upon President Obama’s open data initiative so that federal...
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Education PoliticsSeattle public school teachers have voted to strike if their union cannot reach an agreement with the district by the time school starts on Wednesday.Chicago Public Schools have...
View ArticleExisting Digitally
This talk was delivered today at Emerson CollegeThe title of this talk is “existing digitally,” and our goal is to prompt you to think more critically about your “data” and your digital identities and...
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Education Politics“The Washington Charter School Association has a $14 million fund from private donors set aside to keep the doors open this year at all charter schools in the state,” K5 reports....
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Ed-Tech Might Make Things Worse... So Now What?
The OECD released a “first-of-its-kind” report earlier this week on computers and education, eliciting – as all of its PISA-related reports tend to do – precisely the responses you’d suspect: a lot of...
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#IStandWithAhmedI expect they will have more to say tomorrow, but Ahmed's sister asked me to share this photo. A NASA shirt! pic.twitter.com/nR4gt992gB— Anil Dash (@anildash) September 16, 2015Jared...
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Education PoliticsThe LA Times’ Howard Blume broke a story this week about the Broad Foundation’s “ambitious $490-million plan to place half of the city’s students into charter schools over the next...
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Education PoliticsUS Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that he will step down in December. (President Obama will reportedly nominate John King as his replacement.)Earlier in the week, Duncan...
View ArticleMinimum Viable Ed-Tech: The VR Edition
An excerpt from this week’s Hack Education Weekly Newsletter…Highly recommended: tweet something trollish before you get on a plane for 10+ hours. (e.g. this tweet.) How many people will take advantage...
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Education PoliticsEducation history Sherman Dorn and doctoral student Amanda Potterton on Arne Duncan’s legacy. Education Week on Duncan’s ed-tech legacy. Politico on Duncan’s replacement, John...
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Technology Imperialism, the Californian Ideology, and the Future of Higher...
This keynote was delivered today at ICDE 2015 in Sun City, South Africa. The slides can also be found on Speakerdeck.The obnoxious American: I am the one who flies all the way to South Africa, to an...
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Education Politics“Every few weeks, it seems, a new investigation is launched into one of the larger for-profit colleges in the country,” Inside Higher Ed reports. And yet… And yet: the US Department...
View ArticleThe Web We Need to Give Students
This article first appeared in Bright, a Medium-based publicationStudent privacy has become one of the hottest issues in education, with some 170 bills proposed so far this year that would regulate it....
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The Algorithmic Future of Education
This keynote was delivered today at NWeLearn. The slides can also be found on Speaker Deck.This is – I think (I hope) – the last keynote I will deliver this year. It’s the 11th that I’ve done. I try to...
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Education PoliticsVia The New York Times: “Riot police officers and students protesting against tuition increases clashed on Wednesday outside the Parliament building in Cape Town, the latest in a...
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My Latest Book: Claim Your Domain
My latest book is now available for purchase. Claim Your Domain – and Own Your Online Presence is part of the series “Solutions for Modern Learning” and draws on my work on students “reclaiming” their...
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