Travel

Kin and I flew home from Barcelona on Monday. And other than that, this week has been travel-free. We don’t have a car, so everywhere we went this week was within walking distance of home. Fortunately for us, that includes the beach and a great club, Saint Rocke.

Next week: In Hermosa 'til Sunday, when I'm off to the UK. But Kin is headed in another direction. Bummer.

Watching, Reading, Listening

On Wednesday night, we saw Camper Van Beethoven perform. I’ve had “Take the Skinheads Bowling” stuck in my head ever since.

Between time on a plane and time on the couch, I watched Inside Llewyn Davis (hated it) and Grand Budapest Hotel (loved it).

Between the watching and listening and writing and working, I failed to make time to finish Piketty. My favorite read this week (and truthfully, it’s my favorite thing about email these days) was Rusty Fowler’s Today in Tabs on Friday: #Hashtag Real Talk about Marc Andreessen.

“What Marc Andreessen looks like to me is a chilled butter sculpture made of pure privilege, and what I hate about him is the acceptance of that privilege that still lurks inside of me, all the time.”

Hack Education Writing

#YesAllWomen and Ed-Tech Conferences, or Why ISTE is Unsafe
Hack Education Weekly News: Senior Pranks and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Hack Education Weekly Newsletter, No. 63
No Really, What Should Technologists Know About Education?

Editing Educating Modern Learners

The theme this week on EML was the relationship between new technologies, data, and science. I wrote about the “quantified self” and the “quantified student.” And Cedar Riener wrote about brain science research, and pedagogy.

What You Should Know This Week: Apple and WWDC (actually, I’d say what you should know this week is that there are threats against women in ed-tech on- and offline, but I could only write so much about it.)

Other Projects

I wrote an article about how the ed-tech industry might shape reading for Knowledge Quest, the official journal of the American Association of School Librarians.

Thanks to Mike Caulfield, I’ve been playing around with the “Smallest Federated Wiki.”

I killed my LinkedIn account this week – a small step as part of larger “Reclaim Your Domain” efforts that Kin and I are working on. There’s a Github repo!

I’ve also started Github repos for the “ed-tech trends” research I do each year. (I have lots of thinking to do whether Github or the Federated Wiki is the better tool for me here.)

I’ve only been writing these weekly reviews for a couple of weeks now, but I’m already finding it a helpful exercise to reflect on my writing and thinking – on what I’ve done. But this week the question of “what have I done?” takes on a bit of a different meaning, what with all the accusations flying around ed-tech. What have I done? What have I said? What should I have done? What should I have said? I worry that the consensus is “nothing.”