By Joshua Kim. Waze is fantastic. For those of you that have not switched over to navigating by Waze I say drop what you are doing, download the app, and go and find some traffic. You will be amazed at the power of community sourced traffic notifications, real time rerouting, warnings of upcoming speed traps and disabled vehicles. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Our edtech orthodoxies are so ingrained as to be invisible. We too often fail to challenge these orthodoxies as they usually go unstated, unspoken, and unchallenged.
As a card carrying member of the higher ed edtech establishment I wish to interrogate my own implicit assumptions and beliefs. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day by Craig Lambert. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. What edtech conferences do you play to coming year?
What will we talk about during the edtech 2015-2016 season of meetings? Will we talk about the right things?
I’ve been going to these conferences for years, and I’m starting to wonder why. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs by Alexa Clay and Kyra Maya Phillips. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. I have always been intrigued by the idea of “infinity.” Not only does infinity describe the distance beyond a number, it also describes, in a different way, the distance between two numbers. I found myself thinking of this recently when I contributed a donation to Ursuline’s effort to rebuild the gym that was destroyed by a tornado two years ago this summer. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. The interest rate paid to savers by banks and by borrowers to lenders is sometimes called the “time value of money.” This interest rate can be seen as the price that people will pay to use money today, rather than wait a while and use the money later, when it is immediately available or has been accumulated through savings. Read more...
By Laura Tropp. While I was on the subway, I wanted to find out what time it was. I long ago stopped wearing a watch, but I didn't feel like digging through my bag to find my phone. I saw that the teenager sitting next to me was wearing a watch, so I tried stealing a glance to see the time. Read more...
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