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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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10 Ways To Naturally Support Teacher Collaboration

TeachThought - Learn better.

A recent story on The Onion , the Internet’s beloved satire site renowned for its ability to pinpoint painful truths in its “fake news” stories, last week underscored one of the saddest dynamics of modern education. That’s why educators need to join together and support one another. It’s not that we don’t love teaching.

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'The Brave Little Surveillance Bear' and Other Stories We Tell About Robots Raising Children

Hack Education

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.

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Re·Con·Figures: The Pigeons of Ed-tech

Hack Education

” By centering these two conditions, by taking them seriously as scholars and practitioners, I believe we can crack open some of the crises that we are experiencing, in higher education and beyond, always recognizing as George Siemens reminded us yesterday, of complexities. .” It’s always sunny in education technology.

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Why teacher-authors don’t give everything away free (& neither should you)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Sometimes I just ignore the comment, and sometimes I try to educate the person. 2) I wanted to have a blog post that I could point people to so that I’m not explaining the same thing over and over again. I remember the days when teachers would give everything away for free.” Want to listen to this post instead of read?

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In each interview, I ask the question of my special guest, " What do you know about learning that would make a dramatic difference to parents or students at this time? I also asked each speaker, " What do you think the secret to success in life is? The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit is in its final week. See you "online!"

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Children'

Hack Education

This is part nine of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” “ We Need to Rethink How We Educate Kids to Tackle the Jobs of the Future.” All of these claims play pretty fast and loose with the facts – with the history of education, with the history of technology, and with the history of work.