At the critical bleeding edge of OER, citing David Wiley is no longer fashionable.

We don’t know whether millennials are actually a distinctive generation.

make the things that you want to see in the world

The best way to attract and grow an audience for political content on the world’s biggest social network is to eschew factual reporting and instead play to partisan biases using false or misleading information that simply tells people what they want to hear.

In the end, your assessment of Trump’s chances comes down to the same consideration as with a falling stock: How sound are the fundamentals? Is Trump the equivalent of a beleaguered blue-chip that still has lots of hard assets?

(I’m not condoning the stigmatization of mental illness, btw.)

The realities that art constructs take us out of our existing frames of perception

I reserve the right to be delighted by things

"If they're looking there," he said, "we've lost them."

Ces méthodes, qui pourraient sembler brutales si nous n’étions pas intimement convaincus de leurs vertus pédagogiques, s’avèrent avoir un effet extrêmement bénéfique sur les étudiants.

For the most successful ed tech rollouts, teachers have to be on board with the plan and they need training to master the new technologies before introducing them in the classroom.

We commonly look at Ivy League institutions as the standard of higher education in America, but the truth is that the majority of the nation's workforce, innovation identity and manufacturing futures are tied to those institutions which graduate outside of the realm of high achievers from wealthy families. 

Foregrounding the critical role that autonomy plays within learning, Chris gestures tacitly toward the decreasing level of agency that those most directly involved in learning have in defining the processes and purposes of education on their own terms

captures values such as transparency and student autonomy

colleges need to "shift from a compliance mentality to a responsibility mentality."

Some people define DH as divided into “hack” -- those who code and make digital things -- and “yack” -- those who critique and analyze “the digital.” I’m also interested in “stack” -- how do the structures of organizations and institutions enable or inhibit what we want to do? The people who “hack” and “yack” can’t work without the people in the “stack” (or without the people in the library stacks).

Imagine if our university system was structured around helping people accomplish the things that they're trying to do, Downes said — "that would be a real transformation."

“We need much more honesty, about what data is being collected and about the inferences that they’re going to make about people. We need to be able to ask the university ‘What do you think you know about me?’”

The point of replication isn't to shame researchers — it's to build better science

one iteration from success!

EdTech, or really any system or structure permeating society, does not function under modernist sensibilities.

this model of “personalization” is still building off of a deficit model in which students are steered away from doing the things they are good at so they can focus on the things they are bad at

education technology has become about control, surveillance, and data extraction

The body matters to learning.

"We know the day before the course starts which students are highly unlikely to succeed,"

our “stock of intuitive, empathic, commonsense knowledge about learning.”

people really don't want to criticize this, because it is a humanitarian effort, a nonprofit effort and to criticize it is a little bit stupid, actually.

Without the active collaboration of the people he’s trying to help, he’s unable to make technological advances.

When Michael Young, a British sociologist, coined the term meritocracy in 1958, it was in a dystopian satire. At the time, the world he imagined, in which intelligence fully determined who thrived and who languished, was understood to be predatory, pathological, far-fetched. Today, however, we’ve almost finished installing such a system, and we have embraced the idea of a meritocracy with few reservations, even treating it as virtuous.

the financial crisis convinced him that national currencies were vulnerable to politics and bad decision-making

don’t invest what you can’t afford to lose

We are in the midst of fundamentally redefining the relationship between governments and citizens in the face of technological upheavals in human communications.

By teaching kids how to make beer reliably, we can teach them how to design gas turbines.

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very, very small snack foods. --Geraldine A. Ferraro

we need more student-ready colleges