We’re pretty amazing creatures… Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves | MIT Technology Review: “Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. ‘I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the …
I love the Incase Origami case/stand… Review: The Origami Workstation for iPad — Shawn Blanc: “Well, why not just use the iPad’s smart cover, and carry around the keyboard by itself? I’m glad you asked. For one the Workstation allows me to use the iPad with keyboard on my lap (for times I’m sitting in …
One of the best posts that Jason has made in a long while… Google’s Fiber Takeover Plan Expands: Will Kill Cable & Carriers – LAUNCH –: “Google is going to kill AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and the cable companies. Kids don’t talk on the phone and they don’t have a ton of money. If …
In yet another round of Google Spring Cleaning surprises, GAN hits the chopping block (to the surprise of many in the affiliate marketing world including myself): An update on Google Affiliate Network | Google Affiliate Network: “Our goal with Google Affiliate Network has been to help advertisers and publishers improve their performance across the affiliate …
Half a penny of every federal dollar goes to NASA… NASA 2014 Budget: More for Asteroids, Less for Planets and Education – BadAstronomy: Continuing the bad news, education takes a big hit, going from $137 million to $94 million, a 33 percent cut. Shame on us.
One of those questions I ponder frequently (having been a tween of the early 90’s and having frequently used his music as benchmarks in my life): Nirvana – The In Utero Concert 1993 – Full Length Film Mrs Loosemore has taught me that it’s good to have a list of things not understandable.
I had to wince to make it through this article and visibly groaned when I read this: Teacher Knows if You’ve Done the E-Reading – NYTimes: “CourseSmart is owned by Pearson, McGraw-Hill and other major publishers, which see an opportunity to cement their dominance in digital textbooks by offering administrators and faculty a constant stream …
I like… 23 Beautiful Fonts Released Last Month: “A geometric sans serif typeface, with caps inspired by Art Deco signage found inside the ‘Gare Maritime’ ocean liner terminals in both Le Havre and Cherbourg, France, in the early 1930s.”
Sad and true across the landscape of education (public and private)… “Teacher’s resignation letter: ‘My profession … no longer exists’” – Washington Post: “My profession is being demeaned by a pervasive atmosphere of distrust, dictating that teachers cannot be permitted to develop and administer their own quizzes and tests (now titled as generic “assessments”) or …
Doc Searls riffing off of Dave Winer’s post about the history of podcasts here… Doc Searls Weblog · Why durable links matter: “We can find these historic details because links have at least a provisional permanence to them. They are, literally, paths to locations. Thanks to those, we can document the history we make, and learn from …