Edutopia and EdSurge, too many Edu-websites
tokyokevinSteven Herder interviewed me for the iTDi Teacher's Room a few days ago. In it he said he liked Edutopia and I said that it was primarily funded by big…
iTDi Interview Follow-up
Last Tuesday Steven Herder, of the International Teacher Development Institute, or iTDi (itdi.pro, YouTube, Facebook) was nice enough to include me on the list of people interviewed for their Teacher's…
Ukraine, Europe, the UK, and the US
Image from artidea.org I am reading Timothy Snyder's book The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Guardian, NYTimes review). It is incredibly depressing. I keep coming back to it because, as the Guardian…
Short URLs: Goo.gl going under
Graphic from Strategic Planet News today (and not it is not April Fool's) is that goo.gl URL shortener. Here is the message: Starting March 30, 2018, we will be turning down support…
Media Literacy Debate
My brain hurts. Dana Boyd gave the keynote speech (1 hour) at SXSWedu (an annual media conference with an educational add-on). I first caught wind of the controversy through Stephen Downes'…