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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech
This keynote was delivered today at the Irish Learning Technology Association's annual conference, EdTech2016, in Dublin. The full slidedeck is available here.When I was first approached about speaking...
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Education Politics Officials from 11 states are suing the Obama Administration over the guidance it recently issued regarding transgender bathroom policies and civil rights law. The states: Alabama,...
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Education Politics “New Education Law: Bipartisan No More.” Republicans are made because the Department of Education issued guidelines about how ESSA should be implemented.Via The Atlantic: “Why the...
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Losing Our Pigeons
"With or without aversive contingencies, it is easy to 'lose our pigeon' and the student never becomes a reader" -- B. F. Skinner, The Technology of TeachingI’m a bit tardy on writing up my thoughts on...
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Education Politics “Spending Bill Could Revive Year-Round Pell Grants.”Via The Chicago Sun Times: “A private foundation started by the late Walmart mogul Sam Walton and his wife has contributed heavily...
View ArticleEd-Tech and the Commercialization of School
I was invited to speak this evening to Alec Couros and Katia Hildebrandt’s class on current ed-tech issues, #ECI830. As part of the course, students are engaging in a “Great Ed-Tech Debate,” arguing...
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Education Politics “Education Department Proposes New Regulations to Protect Students and Taxpayers from Predatory Institutions.”From the Times Higher Education by way of Inside Higher Ed: “Poll of...
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Education Politics I watched the results roll in from the Brexit referendum last night with great, great sadness. My mum is British, and I’ve always joked that my British passport is one of my most...
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Education Politics Well the UK’s Brexit shitshow continues, with all sorts of machinations this past week about who’ll be the new PM. Not Brexit campaign leader Boris Johnson, apparently. Perhaps the...
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(Marketing) Virtual Reality in Education: A History
Virtual reality is, once again, being heralded as a technology poised to transform education. I say “once again” because virtual reality has long been associated with such promises. VR appeared in some...
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Well, this one was of the longest short weeks I can remember…Education Politics From the Department of Education’s Press Office: “Fact Sheet: Education Department Releases Proposed Regulations to...
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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change
This is the transcript of the talk I gave today at the Digital Pedagogy Lab at the University of Prince Edward Island. You can find the slides here. Image and data credits are listed at the bottom of...
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Education Politics The US Senate has voted to approve the nomination of Dr. Carla Hayden as the new Librarian of Congress.Conservatives in Kansas are trying to rebrand public education with the label...
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Presidential Campaign Politics On the Republican Party platform and presidential ticket:“Trump plan would base student loans on employability,” the Hechinger Report says. “The RNC wants to make student...
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Presidential Campaign Politics Convention Week #2. This time, it was the Democrats’ turn.Higher ed showed up in Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech Thursday night, including a mention of her plans to...
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Education Politics Via Politico: “Dozens of organizations associated with the Black Lives Matter movement released a policy platform this week that prominently features a range of education issues. It...
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Education Politics “Ugandan parliament orders Bridge Academy schools closed,” according to Education International. “In a sweeping move, the for-profit school chain has been told to lock its doors...
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Education Politics One of the big stories this week: the US Department of Education’s announcement about which “non-traditional providers” (MOOCs, coding bootcamps) will be eligible for financial aid...
View ArticleA Domain of One's Own in a Post-Ownership Society
Maha Bali has written a blog post asking why we talk about “a domain of one’s own” and “reclaim your domain” since people never really own their domains. They merely rent them, she points out.My...
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Education Politics “Members of Congress are in an unusual position as they demand an explanation for Mylan NV's 400 percent price hike for the EpiPen and focus attention squarely on its CEO: Heather...
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