A discreet hotline for politicians to get tech advice. Worth doing?
We keep seeing politicians making decisions about technology and the web that seem odd and ill-informed. In some cases, this might be due to lobbying, and that would…
Tag: education
Thoughts about the MIT Media Lab Class Learning Creative Learning
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been following Mitchel Resnick’s Learning Creative Learning class at the MIT Media Lab online. It’s a big experiment, trying to get the…
Mozfest: Thoughts on a more sustainable Summer Code Party
This year has seen Mozilla’s first Summer Code Party. SCP is a decentralized, global series of community events, and a simple toolkit to help local organizers get their…
Mozilla Festival 2011
_Image by Peter Bihr, Creative Commons (by-nc-sa)_ Mozilla Festival (aka #Mozfest) is over, and it was intense. Throw a mix of 500 journalists, hackers, web devs and activists…
Drumbeat: The Future of Education (and Video)
Drumbeat “Future of Education” Demo from David Humphrey on Vimeo. The Drumbeat Festival in Barcelona is over, but my head is still buzzing. It was fantastic to see…
Interview: Mark Surman (Mozilla Foundation)
Mark Surman, Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation and program chair of Drumbeat Learning, Freedom and the Web Festival, kindly gave me an interview about Drumbeat and why the…
Facebook for teaching and learning
For Barcelona/Spain-based Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Max Senges, Thomas Praus and I write a blog on technological trends and innovation in education. In the blog – called…