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Secret Agent Man
Some weeks, the education technology news is incredibly grim, and sorry to say this was one of those weeks. (Warning: this is a long email.) Indeed, anytime education- and child-related tech stories fill a Garbage Day newsletter as they did on Monday -- Garbage Day describes itself as a publication
Spring Was Never Waiting for Us
The Broken Record
I was amused to read Dan Meyer’s account of the recent AI+Education Summit at Stanford, particularly the remarks made by the university’s former president, John Hennessy, who asked the audience if anyone remembered “the MOOC revolution” and could explain how, this time, things will be different. The
How the World Still Dearly Loves a Cage
Ed-Tech Dragnet
“With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet” writes 404 Media co-founder Jason Koebler, in response to Amazon’s ad in the Super Bowl promising that its front poor camera could be turned into a neighborhood surveillance network. The ad posits that this as a good thing -- it’s
Downhill
The News, Weakly
Apologies, I'm a day late to my weekly round-up of education/technology news. I've been a bit under the weather this week. Is it a cold? The flu? COVID? Or perhaps just that generalized depression and overwhelming sense of doom – I do not know. But I
Mad Maxxing
Snow Day
I'm working on a longer essay that I hope to finish up this weekend, but in the meantime, I wanted to send out a list of links to other important stories, essays, podcasts. I say "that I hope to finish up this weekend," but my weekend
The Storm Before the Calm
The Ruffled Mind
There's a scene in the 1927 film Metropolis in which Freder, the son of the city's mayor, is playing in the "pleasure garden" when a young woman named Maria brings the children of the working class up to see how their wealthy brethren live.