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Ed Tech News, a New Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Launches Rated JPG reports that beloved toy-maker LEGO is building its own social network. Responding to President Obama''s call to train 100,000 teachers in STEM subjects in the next 10 years, Google and 80 other organizations have founded 100Kin10. Called CUUSOO , the site allows users to publish and share their designs.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

“To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).”

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