How the 'Slow Ed Tech Movement' Is Bringing a Sense of Purpose to Academic Technology
David Raths, Campus Technology, 2017/12/26
I can understand why people would want to slow ed tech work, but my fear is that the phenomenon of 'slow ed tech' is based on a chimera. After all, how do you measure the speed of ed tech? Is it how fast you type or text? Is it the number of words you read in an hour? Is the the quantity or pace of operations you perform. More...

Build Pedagogy Before Technology
Rod Berger, edCircuit, 2017/12/26
This is a video discussion between education consultant Steven Anderson and interviewer Rod Berger, along with a summary article. A lot of the conversation revolves around Anderson's experiences at conferences, and how he thinks people should approach the conference experience. There's also an undertone of tech criticism. More...

Dynamicland
Dynamicland, 2017/12/25
This is not a product but a vision of a product. In a nutshell: it's paper, but where every scrap of paper has the capabilities of a computer. The idea is to allow us to create large surfaces (like the surface of a table) where we collaborate using these scraps. More...

A Robot Goes to College
Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed, 2017/12/21
Not only did the robot pass the course, it identified 31 forms of love. That's pretty interesting, but I thinlk it's weird that a course in the Philosophy of Love included " a class debate about the use of nonlethal versus lethal weapons (an extension of a discussion about love and conflict) with students from an ethics course at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point." Maybe it's just me, but it feels like everything is being militarized. More...

Google Maps's Moat
Justin O’Beirne, 2017/12/20

The 'moat' in the title represents how hard it will be for competitors, like Apple Maps, to catch up. More...