Travel

• Hermosa Beach to Barcelona (via Oslo) and home again (via Montreal).
• Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach

Hack Education

• Hack Education Weekly News
• Hack Education Weekly Newsletter
• Learning Networks, Not Teaching Machines
• “Ed-Tech”: (Not) An Etymology

Essays Elsewhere

• This is Not the History of the Phrase “Education Technology” on educationfuturism.com
• Trauma and Learning on modernlearners.com

Speaking

• I spoke at EDEN 2015. My notes and slides are listed above. And here is Steve Wheeler’s write-up of my talk.

Known Notes and Fragments

• The Week in Robots

Other Projects

• My fellowship application was rejected by the Shuttleworth Foundation as my work was not sufficiently “action-oriented.”
• I renewed my subscription to Pinboard, which I use not only for bookmarking but for archiving a copy the pages I mark. Worth every penny.
• Because of things planned (travel) and unplanned (family emergencies), I was not able to make it to DML this week.

Reading and Viewing

• I finished Ian Bogost’s The Geek’s Chihuahua
• I read David Graeber’s The Utopia of Rules
• I read Rafranz Davis’ The Missing Voices of Edtech
• I started reading Edwin Black’s IBM and the Holocaust
• I watched Kingsman: The Secret Service on the flight home.

Family and Friends

• It hasn’t been a good week on the family front. My Granny had a heart attack. The kid is here in LA now and had emergency wisdom teeth surgery yesterday.
• It was a good week on the friend front, as I got to see lots of folks while I was in Barcelona. It was so great to hang out with Jim Groom, Martin Weller, Sheila MacNeil, Doug Belshaw, and Bryan Mathers. (Here’s what we talked about one afternoon.)