Travel
Nope (although Kin has been on the road). Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach.
Hack Education Writing
- Hack Education Weekly News
- Hack Education Weekly Newsletter
- Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: MOOCs, Outsourcing, and Online Education
- Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: Competencies and Certificates
- Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: The Common Core State Standards
- Support Hack Education
Editing Educating Modern Learners
- Everything You Think is “Disruptive” Isn’t, by Will Richardson
- Will an “Hour of Code” Change School?, by me
- Listening and Hearing, by Lee Skallerup Bessette
- EML Newsletter (Tuesday, Friday)
- What You Should Know This Week
Other Projects
- I signed a book contract! Reclaim Your Domain: Building Learner Centered Technologies, which will be published by Solution Tree. (It’s not Teaching Machines, poor project, which always seems to get shuffled to a later date.)
- My review of Dana Goldstein’s new book was republished on Boundary 2.
- Model View Culture published a piece by me on the “Ed-Tech Year in Review”
- I participated in a year-end webinar for ELI, along with Michael Feldstein and Phil Hill.
- I talked to Erik Shonstrom, who is working on a book on learning and curiosity.
Technologies
At the end of every year, I always take stock in the technologies that I use, the ones I no longer use. (I update my passwords, etc in the process.) If there is a theme to 2014, it’s that I’ve ditched a lot of apps. I no longer use Foursquare. I no longer use Facebook. And this week, following a series of increasingly bloated updates, I’m leaving Evernote too. I’ve been a paid user since May 2010, but it’s time to move on. I’ve exported all my files, storying most of them in Dropbox. I’ve moved a lot of notes to GitHub.
I signed up for Blocktogether; it joins Blockbot as crucial Twitter apps. Heh, I have some 3500 people blocked on Twitter now, which is probably one of the things that’s helped me not quit Twitter this year. And speaking of Twitter, I took ThinkUp for a test drive. The insights it emails are neat, and I like to support the work of folks like Gina Trapani and Anil Dash – so I ponied up for a membership.
Random
25 years ago this week, I saw Alice Cooper play at Wembley Stadium. It remains one of the greatest rock shows I’ve ever seen. And the encore of “School’s Out” my first religious experience.