By Joshua Kim. This morning, like most mornings, I put on a tie and went to work.
Do you wear a tie (or the equivalent of a tie) to campus?
Sartorial choices are not new topics of discussion in our community. See here, here, here, here, here, and here.
The difference in this post is that I have no clothing advice for you. Read more...
By Michael Feldstein. I don’t often get to write these words, but there is a new must-read blog post on educational technology by a venture capitalist. Rethink Education’s Matt Greenfield argues that there is no generalized bubble in ed tech investment; rather, the problem is that the venture community has a habit of systematically betting on the wrong horses. It’s worth noting that Matt is not your typical VC. For starters, he doesn’t live in the Valley echo chamber. Perhaps more importantly, he has a background as an academic. More...
Europeana Creative has launched two innovation challenges to create educational apps for teaching Natural History and History Education.
The challenge is to come up with a great idea for an educational app that re-uses the Europeana collections of cultural heritage.
By Daniel Bernsen. To distinguish different types of mobile applications for learning, the following categories may be helpful:
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Live blogging notes learning solutions conference 2014: short notes of the ideas that were shared during this panel session.By Joshua Kim. “The vast majority of talk about education and technology, at least publicly, is about disruption and "innovation," rather than support and augmentation”.
The above quote by John Warner, writing in response to my thinking on the debate between techno-utopians and techno-skeptics, helps puts much of our discussions on this topic into perspective. Read more...
Blog Educpros de Julien Redelsperger. Technology sometimes needs a breakthrough to create new needs and new way of living, working and learning. Windows 95 democratizing the use of computers is one of them. Internet invading every aspects of our lives in the 2000’s is one another. Steve Jobs presenting the first Iphone, back in 2007, may be the last one… until Google?
A new era seems about to open since the launch of the Google Glass project. More...
Par Quentin Duverger. L'avenir des TICE à l'école repose-t-il dans les tablettes et smartphones ? Pour les experts, il faut tirer profit de l'accroissement des équipements mobiles, qui font le lien entre éducation et vie quotidienne. 
By Konrad M. Lawson. I’m not sure how the kids do it these days, but back in my previous life making an extra buck doing academic tech support, the fast and easy way to get a lab full of computers set up for a group of students or staff was to “ghost” the computers with whatever operating system and software you wanted. This process of cloning ensured that you got exactly what you wanted and started fresh for each workshop. Read more...By Joshua Kim. In 5 years we will look back on February 2014 as important moment in the evolution of technology.
The edX announcement of its partnership with Facebook to collaborate on SocialEDU will mark the beginning of an era when the tech world finally woke up to the edtech potential of the emerging world. Read more...
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