by andflywrite | Jun 3, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
At the Apple developers conference yesterday, Apple announced a new programming language for building apps. Here’s Wired Mags take. This is potentially a big deal: If it lives up to Apple’s billing, Swift may also allow a whole new type of coder to build...
by andflywrite | Jun 2, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
News today of yet another Google venture to provide internet access from the air, using satellites. As mentioned, it’s getting hard to keep up with all the Google “projects”, as literally there seems to be at least one fairly major one announced...
by andflywrite | Jun 1, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
Put courses online and put at risk the cash cow of on-campus courses? If not, risk being left behind. So says this article about Harvard Business School. (which sort of coined “disruption” concepts.)
by andflywrite | May 29, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
Anya Kamenetz latest column from nprEd talks the tiny nations of Trinidad and Tobego contracting with Coursera and Kahn to offer a lot of online learning. Kudos to Margot for link. A new pioneer has just planted its flag on the ed-tech frontier: the country of...
by andflywrite | May 29, 2014 | GO AHEAD CALLER
Public policy on laws regulating when students are legally required to be in school, and when they can “drop out” is discussed a bit here. It’s a matter which brings up some fundamental questions on what schooling is, and should be, during a time of...
