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2014-10-23 0:00

Disrupting Education: Cost or Quality?

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In response to When Uber and Airbnb Meet the Real World. A friend got me thinking about how Uber and AirBnB insinuate themselves into an existing “meatspace” industry, only to undo worker protections and government regulations in that industry. This got me thinking about ...

2014-02-24 0:00

Robo-Grading Essays with EdX Discern: A Middle Path with Our New Robot Overlords

The installation 'bios [bible]' consists of an... — The installation ‘bios [bible]’ consists of an industrial robot, which writes down the bible on rolls of paper. The machine draws the calligraphic lines with high precision. Like a monk in the scriptorium it creates step by step the text. http://www.robotlab.de (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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2011-05-23 0:00

Cultivate your Personal Learning Network

John Ward, my High School Math Teacher — John Ward, RIP

This post discusses how to build your own Personal (or Professional) Learning Network. Instead of starting by telling you which tools to use, I want to talk about why you would do this in the first place.…

This is a photo of my high school math teacher, Coach John Wa...

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