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That Damned LMS Dependency
For the second time in less than a year, a major disruption to the learning management system Canvas has prompted cries (and headlines) that “we can’t do school!” In the fall of 2025, an Amazon Web Services outage rendered the LMS inaccessible. At the time, Wired spoke to dozens
Broken Record
I often feel like I’m repeating myself here, because in fact I am. I am, in part, because ed-tech entrepreneurs and evangelists keep repackaging the same ideas, desperate to sound innovative instead of stuck in some Cold War science fiction fantasy. “Intelligent tutoring systems” become “adaptive learning” then “personalized
Broken Barriers
Foolin'
Kin and I have a nice little collection of vinyl -- mostly jazz, but music from other genres too, including a few beloved albums from our teens and twenties. He had just set the needle down on one of these when I walked in the door, home from my morning