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Travel
- Amsterdam to LAX; LAX to Toronto; Toronto to Brooklin (Maine); Brooklin (via Bangor) to Hermosa Beach
- Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach
Hack Education
Essays Elsewhere
- The MOOC Revolution that Wasn’t in kernelmag.dailydot.com
Speaking
- I spoke at my Granny’s memorial service in Toronto (The transcript from my eulogy is below)
Known Notes and Fragments
Other Projects
- I’ve offered a comment to Anya Kamenetz on a story about “what’s next” for Pearson
- I talked to Sarika Bansal, the editor of the Medium publication Bright, about a story I am working on about Knewton and promises of adaptive learning – needless to say, Knewton is not pleased I’m writing an article on the topic
- I was on Little Bird's list of "125 Top Women Futurists," and I chatted with the company's CEO Marshall Kirkpatrick about feminism and futurism
- I turned 44
Reading
- I finished reading Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together
Family and Friends
- I saw lots of friends and family at Granny’s memorial in Toronto, including my cousin Pete and his family and my cousin Lucy and hers
- After my quick trip to Toronto, Kin met me at the Philadelphia airport and we flew on to Bangor, Maine, staying a few days with my brother and his family. While there, we saw our friend Damian and his family too. And on my birthday, I also visited Seymour Papert.