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Travel (and Speaking)
- I traveled to Washington DC for 48 hours. Thankfully I was able to escape as the storm hit on Thursday morning.
- Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach. Fingers crossed: no more travel until the end of April.
Hack Education Writing
- Hack Education Weekly News
- Hack Education Weekly Newsletter
- From Lunchboxes to Laptops: How Maine Went One-to-One
- Moving Beyond Personalized Instruction
Writing Elsewhere
- From Lunchboxes to Laptops: How Maine Went One-to-One on medium.com
- The End of (a) College on modernlearners.com
- Schooling and Snow Days on modernlearners.com
Other Projects
- I sent off the manuscript of Reclaim Your Domain. (One of this week’s task: revisions.)
- I went to DC to interview New America Foundation’s Kevin Carey about the publication of his new book The End of College.
- The Teaching Machines Federated Wiki Happening is happening. We held Google Hangouts on Friday and Saturday.
- I had a quick run-through of a talk I’ve delivering virtually to Leeds University next week.
- I had a wonderful call with Stephen Turnipseed from Lego Education, part of my research into the history of ed-tech (in this case, the history of Mindstorms).
- I met Sam Chaltain for coffee while I was in DC.
- I drafted a review of The End of College. Publication and co-authors TBD.
Reading and Viewing
- I picked Liz Losh’s The War on Learning up again.
- I started Jill Lepore’s The Secret History of Wonder Woman (thanks in part to a connection that Kate Bowles made in the FedWiki happening, linking intelligence testing and machines to William Moulton Marston – the inventor of the lie detector and the creator of Wonder Woman).
- I watched the Mockingjay, Part 1. This breaking books into multiple movies thing is bullshit.