Announcing: Discover Data
Mike Bryant, Discovery Education, 2018/08/07
This article introduces teachers to Discovery's new resources about learning with data. It's pretty basic at this level, and the materials are basically low-tech - some PDF guides along with pre- and post-activity surveys. But I'm including it here because I think the idea of connecting data (or, at least, the process of going out and gathering data for yourself) and education is an important one. The Discover Data resources are here. More...

Instructure Enters those Awkward Teenage Years
Michael Feldstein, e-Literate, 2018/08/07
This is a really patronizing article from Michael Feldstein about the emergence of Instructure into the mainstream. "Being perceived as the market leader is a fraught position for them," he writes, "Both because of that change and because they are now a publicly traded company, Instructure is in the process of becoming...something else. More...

So... Who Is Your Audience?
Philip Kitcher, 2018/08/07
Note: 20 page MS-Word document. I've long considered Philip Kitcher's The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge to be required reading for those in the field, and more recently he has done work in the domain of science and society. So this question directly concerns him. And me. There are really two parts to his answer. One is practical: "The need to present scientific issues clearly to people who are not scientists seems to me the most crucial task of all (and perhaps it is especially important to reach journalists and policymakers)," he writes. The other is methodological. More...