Travel

• Nope.
• Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach and Berlin.

Hack Education

• Hack Education Weekly News
• Hack Education Weekly Newsletter, No. 107
• Data and Diplomas: On LinkedIn’s Acquisition of Lynda.com
• The History of the Future of the Push-Button School

Essays Elsewhere

• Data and Diplomas: On LinkedIn’s Acquisition of Lynda.com on medium.com
• The History of the Future of the Push-Button School on medium.com
• What You Should Know This Week on modernlearners.com
• How Teens Use Social Media on modernlearners.com
• Ethical Aggregation on audreywatters.com

Speaking

• Nope.

Known Notes and Fragments

• A History of MOOCs: Mythology and Wikiality
• Ed-Tech as Imitatio
• The Subversiveness of Ed-Tech
• Алгоритмизация в обучении / The Algorithmization of Instruction

Other Projects

• I paid my taxes.
• I finished my review of Liz Losh’s book The War on Learning for Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.
• I sent off the final draft of my essay for Routledge’s World of Learning.
• I’m working on the next in my series of “history of the future” stories – this one is on the “factory model of education” (as a rhetorical tool, as much as a model of schooling).
• I made a few updates to sf.hackeducation.com.
• I had an interview with the Shuttleworth Foundation.
• I had to muck around with Bridgy to get it to work properly on my Known site.
• I added the Open Graph protocol to the header of my sites, hoping that images will be pulled correctly when posts are shared to Facebook.
• I started trying to “indiwebify” my sites. (I admit, I have no clue how to deal with the h-card and h-entry business.)
• Status: 18 days sober.

Reading and Viewing

• We watched the season premiere of Game of Thrones (and I tried not to be the annoying viewer who kept pointing out that there were lots of changes from the book).
• We’ve been binge-watching The Newsroom. (I have never watched much Aaron Sorkin.)
• I finished Tik-Tok of Oz, and I started The Scarecrow of Oz.

Family and Friends

• The kid was here through Wednesday. He assembled a new Ikea bookshelf for me – without tears or curse-words (which probably means the next time he comes to visit, I'll have bought more furniture for him to put together).