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Ever wonder how Facebook feed works?  The Daily Beast did some experiments to find out...

This online assessment tool, designed by HGSE grad Zach Stein, may feed into last week's discussion re: assessment...

This online assessment tool, designed by HGSE grad Zach Stein, may feed into last week's discussion re: assessment... Has anyone seen or used this tool?

The author makes a case for mobile learning for professionals with the Android App - Google Goggles... are there other uses that people see of the app in the k-12 sector?

A new free app called Hoot.me allows students to collaborate on Facebook to study and do homework without being distracted by status updates.

Orwell missed the mark with his vision of a society that is policed by a single panoptical entity (government). WE ARE BIG BROTHER! Regardless of use, taste or even civility, the masses are using their digital recorders to capture everything. These students have developed a very interesting aggrigator of live video cams that layers over Google Earth sat feeds....Check this out!

A bad example of blending different technologies together.

Kinesthetic activities to explain computer science concepts. Activities to teach kids computer science without a computer.

"Minerva..... is an entirely different pedagogical species. The San Francisco-based company aims at a soup-to-nuts undergraduate education, resulting in a traditional bachelor's degree, but all via the Web, and with all of the social cachet of the country's priciest sheepskin. ....Nelson, its 36-year-old founder, has no experience in education; .....But Nelson managed to not only score a huge investment from Benchmark - the same VC firm that backed the likes of eBay, Yelp, and Mint -but also persuaded a group of A-list luminaries, including former Harvard president Larry Summers, to be on its board of advisors.

interesting that the founder has no experience in education.... :/

"he obstacles to code literacy are getting smaller every day, while the liabilities for ignorance are only getting more profound."

Business still early in development. They are trying to provide solution for this problem: 'it's extremely difficult to track, quantify and contextualize the diversity of experiences in informal lifelong learning." Too early to say if this is even a sustainable business model but we will see. 

Before he publishes the actual 2012 review, is reflecting on what he wrote one year ago. (the ten things he highlighted last year was the ipad, social media, text-messaging, data, the digital library, khan academy, STEM, higher education bubble, "open", the business of ed-tech) Personally interested in programming literacy part that is expected to be mentioned. Also like the questions presented at the end. 

''this app simply allows you to watch videos''  - just focusing on the access to their contents. the article suggests that availability on android phones would also follow..

Nice to hear business ppl taking consequence of education to the society seriously. Unfortunate all solutuions he suggest is about the money...