Electing the Howard County Board of Education by districts makes no sense
Yes, this is another post promoting ranked choice voting.
education
How do schools and parents matter?
I explore the ideas of Judith Rich Harris as they apply to the roles of parents and schools in Howard County and elsewhere.
Online competency-based education
Interested in reading more about online education? Here are some links.
Adventures in online education
I report back from the front lines of online education, as I take the Johns Hopkins data science “MOOC”.
Is there something you’d like to learn (that I can teach)?
As some of you know, I like to learn new things. For example, I’m trying to re-learn some of the statistical knowledge I’ve forgotten over the years, and as ...
Should Howard County Board of Education candidates take the “Audrey Test”?
Technology and education is a funny topic. On the one hand technological innovation in education holds out the promise of helping students learn better and t...
Changing my (blog) name, plus Plus
For those following this blog, note that I’ve changed the canonical site name from blog.hecker.org to frankhecker.com. Any links and feed URLs referencing th...
Mozilla Education: Looking back and ahead
I’m currently working on putting together a draft plan for Mozilla Education activities in 2010. I’m a bit blocked on coming up with a coherent plan, so I th...
One final day for Jetpack for Learning submissions
We received a lot of submissions for the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge just prior to last night’s deadline. In order to accomodate last-minute entrie...
Jetpack for Learning deadline extended
Do you have a great idea for a Jetpack or Firefox extension to help support learning online? Would you like a chance to attend an intensive Jetpack design ca...
Explore the skies in the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge
It’s now less than three weeks until the November 27 submissions deadline for the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge. To get folks excited about the chall...
Learn about Mozilla this summer in Madrid
My apologies for not passing this on earlier: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain, is organizing a three-month course on Mozilla technologies in coo...
Mozilla Education call: proposed Processing project
For today’s instance of our weekly Mozilla Education call at 11 am EDT / 8 am PDT / 1500 UTC we’ll be talking about a proposed multi-disciplinary multi-schoo...
Mozilla Education call: Online presentation systems
For this week’s instance of our weekly Mozilla Education call I’ll be talking about various systems for doing online presentations and related activities (e....
Mozilla Education call: Pascal Finette and Dimdim
For this week’s instance of our weekly Mozilla Education call we have a presentation from Pascal Finette on the online course being done for the Mozilla Labs...
Upcoming Mozilla Education calls
For those of you participating (or interested in participating) in our weekly Mozilla Education teleconference calls, here’s what to expect the next few weeks:
Mozilla Education internship
Are you an undergraduate or graduate student who loves Mozilla and wants to help us teach the world about it? I’m happy to announce that we’re now accepting ...
education.mozilla.org is now live
Well, sort of… One of our proposed Mozilla education activities for 2009 is creating a central web site for Mozilla educational resources and related content...
education.mozilla.org is now live
Well, sort of… One of our proposed Mozilla education activities for 2009 is creating a central web site for Mozilla educational resources and related content...
New Mozilla Education weekly call
As is evident from Mark Surman’s recent Why Mozilla Education? post and all the stuff we’ve been adding to the Mozilla Education planning page, we’re getting...
Mozilla and the future of education, part 2
[This is part 2 of a two-part post. Part 1 discusses the future of education and the possibility of customized online educational offerings as a disruptive i...
Mozilla and the future of education, part 2
[This is part 2 of a two-part post. Part 1 discusses the future of education and the possibility of customized online educational offerings as a disruptive i...
Mozilla and the future of education, part 1
[This is part 1 of a two-part post; part 2 is here.]
Mozilla and the future of education, part 1
[This is part 1 of a two-part post; part 2 is here.]
Seneca College and open source education
I spent October 25 and 26 in Toronto attending the FSOSS 2007 conference put on by Seneca College. I didn’t attend the conference primarily to hear the conf...