education

How do schools and parents matter?

20 minute read

I explore the ideas of Judith Rich Harris as they apply to the roles of parents and schools in Howard County and elsewhere.

Adventures in online education

5 minute read

I report back from the front lines of online education, as I take the Johns Hopkins data science “MOOC”.

Changing my (blog) name, plus Plus

2 minute read

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

8 minute read

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...

Jetpack for Learning deadline extended

less than 1 minute read

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...

Learn about Mozilla this summer in Madrid

less than 1 minute read

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...

Upcoming Mozilla Education calls

less than 1 minute read

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

less than 1 minute read

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

less than 1 minute read

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

less than 1 minute read

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

1 minute read

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

9 minute read

[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

9 minute read

[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...

Seneca College and open source education

10 minute read

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...