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Comment from Sal Kahn
I have followed Sal Kahn and the Kahn Academy since Sal first offered his TED talk. My interest was in his efforts to offer a practical way to implement an individualized mastery learning system. This recent comment from Kahn reiterates … Continue reading
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Photo Ark
Watching CBS Sunday Morning is the start of our Sunday morning routine. The news magazine offers a wide variety of stories with something for pretty much everyone. This morning one of the program’s spots brought attention to the work of … Continue reading
STEM as vaporware
This essay from Wired addresses the educational preoccupation with STEM and concludes it is vaporware. The term vaporware in my experience describes promised software that actually never actually ships. The essay offers a claim for the origin of STEM education … Continue reading
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Flickr struggles
I couple of weeks ago I wrote a long complaint about the pricing options Flickr made available. This complaint was brought on by a doubling of my annual subscription with a free option that was not suited to the collection … Continue reading
eSports and EdTech
A bit of my academic position before retirement was invested in an Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) graduate program. Most of the students we enrolled were interested in designing instruction for learners outside of K12, but my interest and the … Continue reading
Dems sponsor candidate forum on education
Public education by definition is a political process so those interested in education must consider the views of political candidates. The Democrats have recently sponsored a forum allowing Presidential candidates to express their views on education. The archive of this … Continue reading
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