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Hack Education Weekly News: The University of Virginia and the Future of...
Politics and Policies The University of Virginia has become the frontline of the battle for control over public education this week, as the fallout and outrage over the Board of Visitors’ firing of...
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Hack Education Weekly 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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Hack Education Weekly News: UVA, ISTE, ACA, MTT2K and More
Politics and Policies Legislators in DC have reached an agreement on student loans, but it’s really not worth celebrating. Much of the debate about this issue has revolved around not raising the...
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What Can We Learn About #ISTE12 Through Twitter?
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New & Noteworthy Educational Apps, June 2012
In May, I decided 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 been released...
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Hack Education Weekly Podcast
Every week, Steve Hargadon and I sit down to talk about the latest ed-tech news and the posts I've written here on Hack Education. I always find our conversation to be one of the most...
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Who Will Benefit from Badges (and Other New Forms of Credentialing)?
A number of initiatives and startups are hoping to offers ways to give people some sort of formal(ized) recognition for their informal learning – or at least for the skills they possess for which they...
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LearningJar: Tracking What You (Need to) Learn
I've already asked this week, "who will benefit from badges?" I don't want to rehash that. But I do think we need to think about the promises of "unbundling education,” and notice what we're...
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Critiquing Khan Academy: Teacher Theater and the Power of Satire
At the bottom of this post, I’ve “storified” some of the Tweets, videos, and articles about MTT2K, Mystery Teacher Theater 2000. I think MTT2K, the Mystery Science Theater 3000-style video campaign...
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Hack Education Weekly News: Higgslike Particles, Gainful Employment Rules,...
Politics and the Law A federal judge has struck down the Department of Education’s “gainful employment” rules, which the Obama Adminstration issued last year and were designed to stop career training...
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What Can We Learn About #ISTE12 Through Twitter, Part 2
Late last week, I took to Twitter to rant about Twitter and my inability to access all the tweets from the #ISTE12 hashtag due to limitations on the Twitter Search API – yes, I realize the irony,...
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Fidelis: College, Networks, and the Transition from Military to Civilian Life
Virginia Commonwealth University professor Jon Becker recently drew the diagram below to illustrate what he identified as some of the dichotomies in our discussions about MOOCs and online higher...
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Hack Education Weekly Podcast (and Newsletter!)
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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Whose Data Is It Anyway?
Cross-posted at e-Literate I admit: I don’t read Terms of Service agreements before hitting the “Accept” button. I doubt many folks do, save the lawyers who actually write them. As such, it’s hard for...
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Hacking Schooling: One Week, One "Book"
HACK(ING) SCHOOL(ING) Another One Week, One "Book" Project Jon Becker and I are pleased to announce a new project: Hacking Schooling. The project and the process borrow liberally from 2010’s Hacking...
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(Edu)Clipping, Pinning, Linking and Sharing Educational Resources
eduClipper: I got my early access today to Adam Bellow’s newest venture, eduClipper. I have been hounding him to let me have a peek for a while now. I hound because I care, I hope he realizes, because...
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Education Technology as Content Delivery
Khan Academy proudly states on its website “168,382,612 lessons delivered,” something that always reminds me of the slogan that used to accompany McDonalds’ golden arches: “over 200 billion served.”...
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Hack Education Weekly News: The Freeh Report, the Freedom Stick, the Imagine...
Abuse and Negligence at Penn State Former FBI director Louis Freeh released the results of his 3-month investigation into the child sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University. Freeh’s investigation...
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Hack Education Weekly Podcast
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GitHub for Education, Revisited
A GitHub for Education, Revisited I’ve written several times in the past about the potential for a “GitHub for education” – that is, a version of the popular social coding network GitHub where the...
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