SXSWedu panel “Edtech Reporting: Why It Sucks and How to Fix It” discussed how journalists can engage education technology, start-ups, and educators without getting cynical or caught up in the “new and shiny.” [View the story “Reporting on education technology” on Storify]
Internet pioneer and Ethernet inventor, Dr. Robert Metcalfe, will be speaking at a Fireside Chat at SXSW this year on Tuesday, March 13, from 9:30 to 10:30 am, joined by business reporter at the Austin-American Statesmen, Kirk Ladendorf. Now living in Austin, Metcalfe works at The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering […]
Waltrip High School math teacher John Baird first began using sequential art comics while he taught literacy soon after leaving college. Students who otherwise resisted writing liked to imagine dialogue and a storyline to go with the pictures and speech balloons and seemed eager to write. It wasn’t long, however, before John was exploring other […]
Enzo Monfre is founder and CEO of Enzoology Education, a company specializing in science curriculum development. He creates video and other high interest content for science classrooms. Enzo is eleven. Mikala Ulmer created BeeSweet Lemonade, making lemonade sweetened with honey from the family’s bees. Mikala is seven. Charlie Sandefer’s company is Ask Dr. C. He […]
At the SXSWedu panel “The Evolving Role of University Systems in Higher Education,” Texas A&M System leadership discuss how technology and efficiency have led to the development of the $10,000 degree. [View the story “Texas A&M University Leadership discuss the $10k degree” on Storify]
Steven Weigler and Ray Henderson with ScholarCentric and V. Scott Solberg of Boston University School of Education have looked at what skills the students who are successful in school had, whether they were from highly educated, successful homes in good schools or from lower SES homes and less successful schools – and conversely, what skills […]
Occupiers protest the SXSWedu keynote by Pearson CEO by Marjorie Scardino. [View the story “Occupy Austin protests at SXSWedu” on Storify]