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Coursera for Schools tells us a lot about the failure of MOOCs and what comes after.
Google’s internet freedom moonshot has gotten glowing attention for its ambitious projects. But current and former employees, leaked documents, and internal messages reveal a grim reality.
About a decade ago, as the global economy shuddered, an 11-year-old boy sat at a desk with a laptop computer in the hallway of an experimental school in
We need to stop perpetuating the false dichotomy between technology and the humanities. To do otherwise would be detrimental to society.
Some of our best ideas are in the rearview mirror.
The devastating fire at the National Museum of Brazil shows the importance of digitizing the world's knowledge.
21st-century digital evangelists had a lot in common with early Christians and Russian revolutionaries.
Ethical OS Toolkit As technologists, it’s only natural that we spend most of our time focusing on how our tech will change the world for the better. Which is great. Everyone loves a sunny disposition. But perhaps it’s more useful, in some ways, to consider the glass half empty. What
A nice, even-handed discussion of tech critique as well as technomessianism.
Silicon Valley is slow to come to terms with the fact that it's become the new Wall Street.
Hype destroyer.
Lessons from the deep past can help us shape what’s to come.
MakerBot made a bold bet that 3D printers would become as common as microwaves. Just one problem: no one else shared that dream.
Writing about “technology and the moral dimension,” tech writer and Gigaom founder, Om Malik made the following observation: “I can safely say that we in tech don’t understand the…
Open-minded people working in teams make more accurate guesses about what's to come.
You can't bring tech-mediated education to people on the wrong side of digital divides. WHOODATHUNKIT.
OLPC doesn't work. Ockerbloom: "education by airdrop." A certain amount of scaffolding seems necessary before learners can make the leap.