Month: <span>December 2015</span>

#IamEdTech: My reaction to the 2016 National Education Technology Plan (#NETP16)

The 2016 National Education Technology Plan could not have come at a better time. I don’t say this flippantly, knowing that a national plan (for anything) cannot be applied wholesale to any organization, let alone a large urban district with many current strategies and initiatives to combat the opportunity gaps …

Google is neither benevolent nor evil: My reaction to the EFF Complaint

I have become increasingly interested in the way in which we are aware of the "trackers" and other data collection is happening through javascript and other means. I have been utilizing Ghostery (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ghostery/mlomiejdfkolichcflejclcbmpeaniij?hl=en) to determine which services are present on each webpage I visit and then choosing to turn them …