Creator of the original Wiki Wiki Web. (more)

see Neutral Point Of View

Therapy-By-Text Startup Talkspace Raises $9.5M Led By Spark Capital (more)

plural of WikiSpace (more)

In American political discourse, states' rights refers to political powers reserved for the U.S. state governments rather than the federal government according to the US Constitution, reflecting especially the enumerated powers of US Congress and the Tenth Amendment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States%27_rights (more)

Journalist, CoFounder Re Code

see Educational Technology

My term for any lite-markup approach to ASCII/PlainText to add some structure/style. (more)

SmartAscii for EBook authoring - supports more options than MarkDown. http://asciidoc.org/

Mon Tana governor Brian Schweitzer is to lead a number of governors to fight against the federal RealID system. States have until May 11 to request extensions to the Real ID rules that were released last Friday... Last year Montana passed a law saying it would not comply, citing privacy, States Rights and fiscal issues.

aka World War II

Personalized learning is the tailoring of pedagogy, curriculum and learning environments by learners or for learners in order to meet their different learning needs and aspirations. Typically Educational Technology is used to facilitate Personal Learning Environment-s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalized_learning (more)

Number One Son found his AlienWare Lap Top to big/heavy to carry to school when he'd need it after-school for debate team practice. So we sold it via Craigs List. (more)

Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician. The junior United States Senator from Vermont, Sanders has been a U.S. Senator since 2007. An independent politician since 1979, Sanders is associated with the Vermont Progressive Party and was a member of the Liberty Union Party from 1971 to 1979... He served as a Congressman for 16 years before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 to succeed the retiring Republican-turned-independent Jim Jeffords. He was re-elected in 2012 by a landslide... In 2015, his advisers said he would become a Democrat in order to seek that party's 2016 presidential nomination. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders (more)

Steve Hargadon sees separate Long Tail and Big Head in Educational Technology. Ed tech reform in the head is about using money to scale simplified solutions of that which is popular, or the status quo. Ed tech reform in the tail is about using the network to provide freedom and choice. Ed tech reform in the head is like a diet pill, addressing the symptoms, whereas ed tech reform in the tail is like learning to eat healthfully, addressing the cause. The diet pill is easy, learning to grow and eat healthy food is much harder. Or: vertical (headh) ed tech reform based on money is like the scaled food at McDonalds, whereas horizontal (tail) ed tech reform based on diversity is like the wonderful variety of restaurants in a city like San Francisco. cf School Reform (more)

Current majority of pseudo-SchoolReform - more of the Factory Schooling mindset. (more)

Andrew Michael Sullivan (born 10 August 1963) is a British author, editor and blogger, resident in the United States. A former editor of The New Republic and the author or editor of six books, Sullivan is an influential blogger and commentator. He was a pioneer of the political blog, starting his in 2000. He eventually moved the blog to various publishing platforms, including Time, The Atlantic, and The Daily Beast and finally an independent subscription based format. He announced his retirement from blogging in 2015. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Sullivan

Eventually I'll break things up by issues like in Presidential Candidates 2004. But for now will just throw up names of candidates (announced or not). (more)

There's a US$1B software Start Up (Unicorn) founded every 3 months! (more)

Peter Gray on real Education Reform. For the most part, such reformers can be scaled along what might be called a liberal-conservative, or progressive-traditionalist, continuum... Over time there has been regular back-and-forth movement of the educational pendulum along this continuum. But the pendulum never moves very far... The pendulum never moves very far before it is pushed back in the other direction, because neither type of reform works... Real educational reform, as I see it, requires a fundamental shift in our understanding of the educational process. It requires the kind of shift that I have been advocating in the whole series of essays that constitute this blog. For starters, it requires that we abandon the idea that adults are in charge of children's learning. It requires, in other words, that we throw out the basic premise that underlies our system of schooling... A little "freedom" in a system where success is measured by tests doesn't work, because free children don't choose to learn the test answers. "Play" in a setting where children are segregated by age and are constrained in what they can play at is not a particularly effective learning tool. (UnSchooling) (more)