Lottery Ticket Strategy (MacArthur’s DML Continued)
A few days ago the MacArthur Foundation announced that they had selected the winners of their Digital Media and Learning Competition. We haven’t heard anything. The blog post says that much legal work needs to be done to “prepare the winners to meet their public on Feb 21st.” Seems like legal work would require participation […]
Trying to Avoid the Advertising on the Horizon
Catching up on my feeds from the weekend, I came across Danah Boyd’s posting about youth, advertising, and social responsibility. by strangeinterlude The short of it is this: marketing necessarily creates ideals, these ideals put substantial pressure on our youth, and the “kids”, in turn, take it out on each other. In her blog, Danah […]
Facebook Scholarship and Academia
With a serious but hip academic posing seriously and hip-ly in front of a monitor I would love to own, showing a Facebook profile some dots and lines (presumably social graphs), the New York Times notes how great Facebook is for research. See the whole article here. Some interesting tidbits from the article: “Researchers learned […]
Judging Student Literacy
It’s blog entries like Noichole Pinkard’s** that keep my excitement flowing about the potential future of education. Here’s my favorite line: I conjecture that by 2018, a student will routinely be judged not only by her ability to write a 5-paragraph essay but her ability to represent her ideas via a 5 minute podcast, 2 […]
Patience Still Matters With Technology
We have pride in our vision. We try to avoid hubris with doses of self-deprecation, but I’ll be honest, we have moments in conversation where the word “genius” gets thrown around only half way in jest. We are still young. Someday we will know to not be impressed. At the moment, however, it drives us […]
Laissez-faire About Privacy
After visiting 30 schools and talking to hundreds, if not thousands, of college students in the past two years, my conclusion is this: Students do not care about privacy in any fundamental sense. They just don’t. They figure the government just shouldn’t or wouldn’t mess with them. Corporations aren’t even on the radar. The only […]
Towards A Red Rover Theoretical Foundation
As part of the MacArthur DML application. We are working on framing a historical context in which to place Red Rover. I talked before about the need for a “cogent theoretical framework” for the application itself, this work is getting us closer to it. Because MacArthur wants everything quick and to the point, our framework […]
MacArthur Foundation Submission
We are submitting a grant proposal to the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Competition. In the spirit of transparency and collaboration, we’ll be posting our entry process, final submission and references up on this blog. Grants are new to us as entrepreneurs, so it’s another exciting stretch for us. We’ve received valuable advice and […]
Red Rover Intro Video
In talking with a lot of advisors who are trying to start Red Rover on their campus, one of the challenges they say they are facing is convincing the staff/admin how it works and what it does. So we put together this video. More help is coming soon including a website with screenshots and an […]
Facebook Passing on the Niche Markets
On July 17th, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, was interviewed by Time Magazine in an article titled, “The Future of Facebook.” The last line of Mark’s answer to this question was most interesting to me: Then on July 25th Facebook posted this blog** in their developer’s corner: Education should deliver relevant connections** to new people, ideas, […]