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Hack Education 
Writing Elsewhere 
- Hack Education Weekly Newsletter via tinyletter.com
- The Week in Robots on audreywatters.com
- Who Is Funding Ed-Tech Startups? on funding.hackeducation.com
- The Blockchain and Education: Ideology, Links on research.hackeducation.com
Speaking 
- Nope
Other Projects 
- Taxes!
- I signed up for Reclaim Hosting as I want to move my Known installation there. But I’ve struggled to get my old Known files transferred, reminding me once again how crucial it is to control important data yourself and how frustrating third-parties can be in this process
- I'm so relieved to have finished my blockchain research. My next project explores the history of chatbots in education, so I've started making notes on the shape that story will take
- I updated the author photo across my sites
- I started a new “open data” project, gathering a list of all the investors who’ve funded ed-tech startups since Hack Education started (that is, since 2010). I’ll have this ready to go by the end of the month (hopefully)
- I tried making my own pickled ginger, something I’ve become quite addicted to. Our local farmers’ market sells a really delicious version, which I haven’t quite been able to replicate, despite trying different vinegars and different levels of sweetener. I spent a lot of time thinking about this passage from Ramona and Her Mother (Happy 100th birthday, Beverly Clearly!):
- I talked to to Educause’s John O’Brien about the “paleofuture” of education
Travel 
- Nope
- Upcoming week: Nope
Reading 
- I read Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood and Maddaddam
- I started reading Abby Smith Rumsey’s When We Are No More
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