Hacking Education Wrapup

Here is my wrap up from last Friday’s incredible Hacking Education meeting. Books mentioned: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life What Would Google Do? Websites mentioned: http://worldwideworkshop.org/ http://scratch.mit.edu/ http://gamestarmechanic.com/GSM/web/home.html http://www.muzzylane.com/ http://edufire.com/ Home http://betterlesson.org/ http://www.facinghistory.org/ http://schoolofeverything.com/ http://www.teachstreet.com/ http://techshop.ws/ … Read more

BYU’s McKay School in the OCWC!

The Brigham Young University David O. McKay School of Education‘s Open Learning project has joined the OCW Consortium! We’ve only published two courses to date, but more are coming. We’re still in pilot mode, so if you find anything not working or looking out of sorts, please let me know!

On HR 801

I thought I would share my most recent letter to John Conyers re: HR 801. Please consider something similar to [email protected]. John, Please let me very briefly explain the two reasons I oppose HR 801. First, as a member of the taxpaying public, if I pay for research to be conducted I don’t expect to … Read more