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Travel
- Hermosa Beach, CA and Eugene, OR. (Meanwhile, Kin was in Broomfield, CO.)
- Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach, CA and Eugene, OR.
Hack Education
- Hack Education Weekly News
- Hack Education Weekly Newsletter, No. 112
- What Are Games and Simulations Good For?
- Webcasting Open Courses: A Brief (Berkeley) History
- Ed-Tech and the Californian Ideology
Essays Elsewhere
- Webcasting Open Courses: A Brief (Berkeley) History on educationfuturism.com
Speaking
- Nope.
Known Notes and Fragments
Other Projects
- I had a nice chat with Scott McLeod about robots and teachers.
- So far so good with the Superheroes MOOC. (I’ve watched the videos and done the homework.)
- I penned an EML article for Monday.
- EML founders Will Richardson and Bruce Dixon announced this week that Educating Modern Learners will be winding down publication. I haven’t been editing the publication this year, but I have been writing regularly. Time to find more freelance work, I guess. Or remind folks that there are many ways already to support my work.
- I submitted some edits for my book review of Liz Losh’s War on Learning.
Reading and Viewing
- I watched Mad Max: Fury Road with the kid. (Review to come)
- I watched the season finale of The Simpsons. (It dealt with ed-tech. I even made an animated GIF.)
- I started reading Bruce Schneier’s Data and Goliath.
- I read Cory Doctorow’s Homeland.
Family and Friends
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