By Joshua Kim. Never have our academic librarians been more essential to the core educational, discovery, and service mission of our institutions as during the current political climate. Read more...
Will EdTech Learn Anything From Fitbit?
By Joshua Kim. Stock in the company that makes the Fitbit activity tracker has dropped by 70% since the company’s IPO in June of 2015. We learned today that Fitbit plans to lay off 6% of its workforce. Read more...
The Ideological Bridging Potential of Reading 'Ghettoside'
By Joshua Kim. The idea of looking for ideological bridges might seem absurd in the early days of the Trump administration. Nobody seems to be in the mood for common ground. Read more...
On Failing to Craft a Liberal Arts Curriculum From My Audiobook Collection
By Joshua Kim. Take your book collection. Try to categorize your books by academic discipline. (To make this doable, let’s stick with our nonfiction books). Read more...
Against The Design Thinking Meeting
By Joshua Kim. The people who speak the language of design thinking are the cool kids. Not just the people with the awesome glasses and the black clothing. These are the people who have those awesome jobs with “innovation” or “disruption” on their business cards. Read more...
Processing the HAIL Storm
By Joshua Kim. Thinking about a convening on digital learning and educational R&D. Read more...
Higher Ed and the Demise of the Circus
By Joshua Kim. Just as a new circus is set to begin on January 20th, we got word this past weekend that another circus is coming to an end.
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus will end its 146 year run this May. Read more...
3 Reasons to Read the Higher Ed Supplement to National EdTech Plan
By Joshua Kim. My goal is to convince you to download, print, read (or skim) the Higher Education Supplement to the National Education Technology Plan released last week by the Department of Education. Read more...
In Defense of Phone Love
By Joshua Kim. Why I'm okay with our obsession with our mobile devices. Read more...
Obsolete iPods and Mobile Learning
By Joshua Kim. How many old iPods do you have sitting on a shelf, in a drawer, or in a box. Read more...