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Edu 2.0
DIY learning: Schoolers, Edupunks, and Makers challenge education as we know itWe're on a path toward personalized learning.
Schoolers, Edupunks and Makers are showing us what's possible when learners, not institutions, own the education that will define their lives.
What is smart disclosure?"Choice engines" are helping consumers make smarter decisions through personal and government data.
Smart disclosure is when a company or government agency provides consumers with periodic access to personal data in an open format. Citizens can put their own data assets to work in making better choices about finance, healthcare, travel, energy, education, real estate and more.
The dilemma of authentic learning: Do you destroy what you measure?The challenge of translating the educational benefits of making.
Making and education clearly go hand in hand, but how do we quantify and share the results of authentic learning without losing its essence? That's the issue educators are currently facing.
Developer Week in Review: Siri is the talk of the townVoice-driven apps on the horizon, take Stanford CS courses on the house, and JavaScript flexes its muscles.
Everyone either wants to be just like Siri or thinks it's (she's?) a waste of time. Stanford expands its free CS curriculum, and JavaScript gains encryption and a JVM implementation.
Intellectual Property Strategy: a book, a panel, and a movement
The speakers, who included household names of the free culture movement such as Lawrence Lessig and Eric von Hippel, emphasized the culture shift that is breaking the seemingly iron grip of current policies that favor wealthy companies with portfolios of patents and copyrights. But I think even these speakers failed to convey how huge a sea change in underway.
Helping educators find the right stuffThe Learning Registry looks to crack the education resource discovery problem.
There are countless repositories of high-quality content available to teachers, but it is still nearly impossible to find content to use with a particular lesson plan for a particular grade aligned to particular standards. That's where the Department of Education's new Learning Registry comes in.
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