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By Laura Tropp. Sometimes I bemoan the fact that, though people regularly call me “Dr.,” I do not have a medical degree. It’s not because I have any desire to practice medicine (I get queasy at the sight of blood) or that my parents wanted me to go to medical school (they still get to tell their friends I’m a Dr.), but because sometimes I feel so ill-equipped for the medical side of mothering. In the middle of the night with the high fever or a child complaining of odd symptoms, I feel my extensive knowledge of the history of the printing press is pretty much useless. Read more...

By Rosemarie Emanuele. When I describe Calculus to my students, I explain that it is the part of math that studies change. The change in location, of speed, or the number of bacteria in a petri dish; these are all topics covered in Calculus. Change has become a constant companion on our campus this past year, and such change has come home as the Math department prepares to move its offices in the next week. 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...

By Joshua Kim. Last week I renewed my print subscription for The Economist. I renewed through Amazon, paying $223.38 sense for a two year (102 issue) subscription. This works out to $2.19 an issue.
The Economist is one of the 4 publications that I read only in print, and pay to have delivered to my home. The others include our daily local paper, Popular Science, and Wired magazine. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. Does anyone believe that RadioShack will still be around in 2020?
This week the electronics retailer announced that they will be closing 1,100 stores. This will leave the chain with about 4,000 locations. This is probably about 4,000 too many.
I’m not one of of those people that thinks that the campus based university is headed for a similar fate as RadioShack, Circuit City, or Blockbuster Video. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. Steven Mintz’s article Five Ways that 21st and 20th Century Learning Will Differ does a beautiful job of laying out how "teaching and learning in the early 21st century differ from its 20th century”.
The far-reaching developments for learning that Mintz’s foresees include:

• A 21st century education will be geared toward 100 percent proficiency.
• It will rest on the science of learning.
• It will be data-driven.
• It will be personalized.
• It will take advantage of technology in ways that truly enhance the learning experience. Read more...

By Barbara Fister. You’ve probably seen the news. Getty (not to be confused with the Getty) has made millions of their photos free. Well, not exactly. You have to use their embedded code which includes branding, a bit of surveillance, and other money-making potential. Getty figures since people are already using their photos without paying, this is a way to get some control over those uses and montetize it. When you embed these images, you’re giving Getty access to information about who sees the image on your page and you provide them ad space on your site, a little virtual real estate where they might someday put up billboards. Read more...

By John Warner. At Higher Ed Beta, Steven Mintz, Executive Director of the University of Texas System’s Institute for Transformational Learning, argues in “Five Ways that 21st and 20th Century Learning Will Differ”  that we are in the midst of a data-driven educational transformation.
I would say that he offers predictions, except they aren’t so much predictions as commands, as he utilizes the future imperative throughout. Read more...