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Festival may kick-off the handschooling era
In a decade or two, when the world looks back at the transformation of learning to mobile, what will be the kick-off date? When did handschooling* really take hold and get underway? I would lay down a...
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Lynda.com courses compatible with iPhone and iPod
Skeptics are wrong to think courses are ineffective on smartphones. If Lynda is doing it, you can be sure courses on smartphones are in demand, will be compelling, and will be profitable. Lynda.com is...
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Google and Apple innovations should be heads-up for educators
How do educators anticipate new tech opportunities? Do educators think ahead, or are they still “innovating” what was new tech quite a while back? Let’s see: At Edgelings today Michael S. Malone gives...
View ArticleApple’s Tablet, as Imagined by Book Publishers
This video is described on MarketWatch as “Apple’s Tablet, as Imagined by Book Publishers”: This video created by Coursesmart, a joint venture of five textbook publishers, shows how students might use...
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Handschooling is a new weapon against Savage Inequalities
At the end of 2009 we read this headline: Detroit students’ scores a record low on national test. This is once again the sad echo of what, in his 1991 best seller, Jonathan Kozol called Savage...
View ArticleInternet home access to low-income families de-fangs savage inequalities
Home Access scheme to provide internet access to low-income families has gone live in England. Silicon.com reports:“PC giveaway for school kids is go: 270,000 low-income families getting internet...
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Dwarf dance debuts new knowledge while standards setters lock in the old
Will school science continue to teach the long-standing problem in cosmology about how dwarf galaxies form? I don’t know if/where schools teach the dwarf problem, but I do know curriculum and testing...
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Learning basic history, science, math in kids’ hands
Every boy in the picture above (by Griff Witte/the Washington Post) can learn basic history, science, math and more — in spite of what is reported today in a front page Washington Post story:...
View ArticleMobile access to school standards testing creates equality
Let any child anywhere use his or her mobile to take the school standards tests. All the time now the corporate training world, people learn, are tested, and are certified using their internet...
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The best that schools offer is never for everybody, mobile fixes that
Until mobile browsers existed, there has NEVER been a way to proved equal schooling to all children. The usual situation is for elite kids to have better schools. The effect of that is for the highest...
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