By Matt Reed. Reading the revelations about the working conditions at Amazon alongside stories about officials at UIUC using personal email addresses triggered a spark of recognition. The common denominator is the relationship among transparency, candor, and discretion. More...
By Joshua Kim. 10 Dangers of Thinking Like An EdTech Blogger:
1. Confusing asserting a point with offering evidence to support your arguments. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Thinking clearly about higher ed in 2025 requires that we reconcile 3 contradictory somewhat trends:
Trend #1 - Learning Will Be Much Improved:
The great untold story of higher education is how much more today’s students are learning as compared to when we went to college. We are in the middle of a learning revolution. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. If Educational Technology (EdTech) is a discipline (a live question), then we are a discipline at a crossroads.
Will EdTech be an enabler for a postsecondary agenda that originates outside of the concerns, values, and goals of educators and learners? An agenda that stresses efficiency and privileges those outcomes that can be easily quantified. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. “Many chains are already at work looking for ingenious ways to take humans out of the picture, threatening workers in an industry that employs 2.4 million wait staffers, nearly 3 million cooks and food preparers and many of the nation’s 3.3 million cashiers”. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. The NYTimes article on working at Amazon, and the response by Bezos, has struck a nerve on my campus. Lots of hallway conversation have started with, “Did you read the Times Amazon piece?” The sentiment that I’m hearing runs the spectrum from disbelief to denial, appalled shock to barely disguised admiration. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. A number of the best books that I've read this year feature collapse as the central narrative conceit. The books include,The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi (which is amazing), The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell, and California by Edan Lepucki. Read more...
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