Bret Victor wrote an essay in 2012 that left me desperately wishing I were a computer engineer. “Learnable Programming” was a critique of 1) Khan Academy’s newly released intro course on programming, 2) the Processing language the course focused on, and 3) decades of stagnation in programming pedagogy. The essay was funny, visually stunning, provocative,… Read more »
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Design research in action–we turn to the case studies!
Update: Part 3 on disciplinary cross-pollination! Part II of my loooooong review of the Dept of Ed report on “Expanding Evidence” is up at Edsurge. (Part I here). This section is about what design research can look like in education action. I walk through some of the case studies in the report and link continual… Read more »
Design Thinking for Education Technology
I’ve got a new review up on EdSurge this week. Instead of a product review, it’s a long look at a big report on new ways of thinking about how to evaluate and develop education technologies. Here’s the opening: Late in December, the U.S Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology dropped a 100-page draft… Read more »
Working and Networking
I love talking to people about the exciting work they’re doing. I love it more when their work resonates with something I’m doing. I love it the most when finding people whose exciting work resonates with my own is part of my professional responsibilities. While teaching, I realized that the willingness to ask people to… Read more »
Hi, I'm Andrew Plemmons Pratt. I am the Program Manager for New Classrooms in Washington, DC. (Though opinions expressed on this site are entirely my own.) I taught 7th-grade English in Prince George’s County, Maryland as a member of the 2010 Teach For America corps. I write about literacy & edtech here—along with stuff like industrial archeology and bread baking.