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  • Followup on Goalbook, + data portability and more

    By Christopher Dawson | February 14, 2012, 12:45am PST

    Last week, I raved about Goalbook - It’s one of the cooler bits of social tech I’ve seen, speaking as a parent, an educator, and tech guy. During last week’s review:ed episode, Kirsten Winkler and I had the chance to talk with Wayee Chu and Jennifer Carolan who head up the NewSchools Venture Seed Fund, [...]

  • Goalbook - Social IEPs for everyone? Actually, yes

    By Christopher Dawson | February 10, 2012, 6:34am PST

    Goalbook could revolutionize how we approach differentiated instruction and outcome-based education.

  • Next-gen textbooks? It's the ecosystem, not the device

    By Christopher Dawson | February 7, 2012, 11:02pm PST

    I love hardware as much as the next geek, but solving our ed tech problems will require one heck of an ecosystem; hardware is a tiny piece of the puzzle.

  • Textbook of the future? Not until we figure out distribution, DRM, and ecosystem

    By Christopher Dawson | January 30, 2012, 12:05am PST

    Hardware is only a tiny part of the problem we need to solve to get educational resources into kids’ hands (both literally and figuratively) at scale.

  • What does iBooks mean for the eBook/eTextbook industry?

    By Christopher Dawson | January 23, 2012, 1:17am PST

    The eTextbook industry got a big publicity and market education boost last week with Apple’s announcements. What it didn’t get was the market revolution it could have.

  • In search of the perfect CMS

    By Christopher Dawson | January 11, 2012, 1:10pm PST

    One of my New Year’s resolutions was to use Moodle for everything. It’s very possible to build entire sites with a huge community interaction component without much coding. Forums, blogs, you name it. Moodle actually represents as much a content management system as it does a learning management system.
    Which is great…I’ve already used it to [...]

  • What do you do with a BA in English?

    By Christopher Dawson | January 9, 2012, 11:58pm PST

    Why does this make me think of my oldest son? He’s an English major, of course!

  • My New Year's ed tech resolutions

    By Christopher Dawson | January 5, 2012, 12:44pm PST

    No, really, I’ll be actually keeping these resolutions.

  • Top 5 Ed Tech predictions for 2012

    By Christopher Dawson | December 22, 2011, 8:11pm PST

    Here’s hoping I’m more accurate than I was last year.

  • The top 5 ed tech developments of 2011 that weren't

    By Christopher Dawson | December 20, 2011, 1:58pm PST

    If you had asked me in 2010, these technologies would have been a much bigger deal than they were.