Whatever Happened to Channel One?
Larry Cuban, Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice, 2018/08/06
Channel One was founded in 1989 as a way to pump marketing content directly into primary school classrooms (disguised as news content created by CNN). It was a going concern in the early 2000s, when I covered it here, but has faded from prominance since then. So what happened to it? "Channel One died at the end of the 2018 school year." No loss. More...

Publish Static Websites, Docker Containers or Node.js Apps Just by Typing: now
Tony Hirst, OUseful.Info, 2018/08/06
I too listened to the Reclaim Today show (here's the audio podcast to listen to while cycling) last week and like Tony Hirst I too spent some time playing with Zeit Now [docs] over the weekend. What I didn't do was write a longish post about it. More...

Kolabora
A new resource from Robin Good, this website provides information and help on conferencing and collaboration on the net. I like the style of the newsfeeds, and may steal the author-site design for my own lists. Also interesting is the set of discussion board (or 'phorum') topics, each with its own RSS feed. More...

Content Management and Collaboration Converge on E-Learning
Though this article is loosely written, enought of the meaning comes through to give a glimpse of a project at the University of Michigan that seeks to combine content management (especially of video assets) and e-learning. More...

The Maine Event
Overview article describing the Maine laptop program and the evaluations - uniformly positive - that followed. "Students, teachers, principals, and parents across the Pine Tree State are relaying success stories for which the portable computers are credited. Stories of sullen truants transformed into outgoing school leaders. Stories of leveling the playing field. Stories of environmental projects or oral histories benefiting and uniting not just the school community, but the community at large. Stories of teachers reinvigorated by a new way of teaching that encourages real-world problem-solving and individual student initiative." There is, however, a downside to the laptop experiment: it ends. More...

Students Who Know Their Own Minds
Wouldn't it help teachers if they knew how students think and learn? Of course it would. But wouldn't it help even more if this information were shared with the students themselves? That's part of the philosophy behind one of several novel programs implemented at Gateway High School, a 400-student charter school in San Francisco. More...