Travel
Nope. Upcoming week: New York City and Washington DC.
Hack Education Writing
- Hack Education Weekly News
- Hack Education Weekly Newsletter
- The Future of Education: Programmed or Programmable
- Maggie’s Digital Content Farm
Editing Educating Modern Learners
- Taking Inventory of the Ed-Tech Schools Use, by Bill Fitzgerald
- What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Connectedness, by Bud Hunt
- To Administrate or To Lead, by Bruce Dixon
- EML Newsletters (Tuesday, Friday)
- What You Should Know This Week: US Midterm Elections, by me
We (that is, Bruce, Will Richardson, and I) determined this week that I’ll be wrapping up my work as EML’s editor at the end of this year.
Teaching Machines
I submitted a book proposal for Teaching Machines. I’m hoping that, as I rethink the focus of my work, I’ll be able to hammer out the rest of the book during the first few months of 2015.
Other Projects
As part of DigiWriMo, I was a “guest speaker” and my piece “Maggie’s Digital Content Farm” was published on the DigiWriMo blog as well as on Hybrid Pedagogy.
I was a guest speaker at Pepperdine's graduate program in ed-tech this week, giving a talk on Tuesday evening about the history and future of ed-tech and conducting a workshop on Wednesday on ed-tech privacy and Terms of Service.
Tressie McMillan Cottom and I submitted an abstract for an article we’re working on, “Racializing Public Higher Education’s Imagined Futures.”
I got the word that Jose Vilson and I will be reprising our “conversation” at Educon on privilege.
I’m scrambling to finish all the talks I’m scheduled to give in the coming weeks. This week, I worked on the one I’m giving at NYU (pretty much done writing it) and the keynote I’m giving at OpenCon (about two-third done with writing it).
Oh. And this happened: The Gamergate shitshow picked up on the excerpt from Hack Education that Mozilla ran on its Open Standard blog last week – me asking why ed-tech folks were ignoring GamerGate. So my mentions and web alerts were really fun and special and caring and thoughtful this week. Due to the GG frenzy, Mozilla then published a rebuttal to my piece – ya know, in the interest of representing “both sides” of the story. Whatever the hell that means. The Firefox Twitter account weighed in. Then the CEO of Mozilla apparently apologized (not to me… but for publishing my work). So I have decided that the Gamergate creeps are right about one thing: Mozilla does not have a strong ethical core at all, Firefox is a piece of shit, and I’ll no longer use the browser or support the organization's work. I mean why the hell would I?
Reading and Viewing and Listening
I’m still reading Gibson’s The Peripheral. And, like many folks, I’ve become a regular listener to the new Serial podcast. I have mixed feelings about it, particularly as it’s so centered on the journalist and the convicted killer (innocent or not) and not on the victim.