Duolingo has always been an interesting one among education startups. It didn’t embroil itself in any debate about pedagogy; it didn’t say it was going to revolutionize education. All it was was a website, and later an iPhone app, and after that a cross-platform app that promised to help you a learn a language for…
Month: September 2013
Phonebloks and the deeper messaging of sustainability
THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013 Something just blew up on my Tumblr dashboard. This: Phonebloks. The video was posted onto YouTube on Sep 10, 2013 and it is currently the evening of Sep 11, 2013 with 2.6 million views. I first noticed it after it circulated many times on my Tumblr dashboard (90,000 notes currently). It…
What do I do with all this data
This isn’t actually a post; more a question I’m thinking through and asking others for any tips on. So I have a ton of data (short observations I’ve gathered in my ubiquitous text capture system). An item or observation is usually a sentence separated from the next item by a blank line. It’s all in…