by andflywrite | Apr 25, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
306 page pdf by GSV on “How Education Innovation is Going To Revitalize America and Transform the US Economy”. This obviously attempts to be comprehensive about ed tech innovation ongoing and future trends thereof. Just their perspective of course, and GSV...
by andflywrite | Apr 18, 2014 | GO AHEAD CALLER
Jose Ferreira CEO of Knewton regularly expounds on his blog re what they are up to with adaptive learning. His latest entry talks about Big Data issues as he sees them and tries to address or head off some concerns or issues that teachers may have. I’ve included...
by andflywrite | Apr 16, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
A recent article in Time Mag. discussed the proliferation of “Silicone Valley” type startup regions in various parts of US, specifically the Silicone Beach area in West LA near Santa Monica and Venice. The point was made that while Silicone Valley (which...
by andflywrite | Apr 7, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
Jeremy Rifkin, generally respected (AFAIK) author of books on large world trends in “the economy” released a new book today titled: The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism...
by andflywrite | Mar 5, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
As an example of how politics effects education innovation, article in NYTimes on battles between top charter school leader Eva S. Moskowitz and the new Mayor of NY, De Blasio who campaigned on “anti charter schools” platform and denied 3 applications in...
by andflywrite | Feb 23, 2014 | GO AHEAD CALLER
Ongoing saga of broadband access and affordability in the US took another twist in the tale with Comcast and Netflix agreement to “give good speed” to Netflix connections with customers over Comcast infrastructure. Details being few as to what actually is...
