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Monthly Archives September 2011

It is still a great idea

We got into the book publishing game by being rejected. Our original idea was to repurpose topical coloring books as digital files and provide them to teachers/students with some project ideas. Houghton-Mifflin liked our focus on technology projects for the classroom and offered us a book deal for a more general product. I still think [...]

Posted 29 September 2011 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Told you so

In several posts over the years, I have wondered aloud about what I thought was a poorly conceived connection between NCLB and politicians concerns with the capacity of the U.S. to compete economically. While getting a higher proportion of students to a minimum level of proficiency is a worthy goal, I have suggested that this [...]

Posted 21 September 2011 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Glean

I have written on several occasions about the problem of finding what you look for rather than what you should see. This is my way of describing what Eli Pariser calls the Filter Bubble (also the name of his book).  For educators, thorough online exploration is part what might be called digital literacy. Public Learning [...]

Posted 17 September 2011 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Trolls and Mutually Assured Destruction

Educators may have limited awareness of the patent battles that now plague technology industries. Everyone seems to be suing everyone. Educators are more likely to be aware of copyright. They tend to understand that the whole sale duplication of content generated by someone else (music, text, video, images) is prohibited. What you may also recognize [...]

Posted 12 September 2011 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °