Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

I know there have been lots of murmurs about what it means that someone who’s been quite critical of the Horizon Report project would be invited to speak, let alone to get to offer the closing remarks. I spend a lot of time talking about what I call “the history of the future” of education technology. Why and where.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. Seymour, as my friend Gary Stager has described him , was the “inventor of everything (good) in education.” Read Mindstorms. ” ).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Good for you. But that’s not my job. And honestly, it’s probably not your job either.).

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NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Of course, DeVos has supported groups that back the Common Core in the past, including Jeb Bush ’s Foundation for Excellence in Education. From 1995 to 2005, DeVos sat on the board of the Acton Institute , which recently published a blog post decrying child labor laws. She serves on its board.)

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