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Part 7 of my ed-tech year-in-review series: educational data and learning analytics.

Most folks don't pay much attention to administrative law. It is not an area of law taught at any level of school except law; it is hardly mentioned in 7th grade civics, for example, too busy with the tripartite form of republican democracy. If you take American history as an undergraduate it shows up most prominently in a discussion of the New Deal and the alphabet soup of federal agencies that emerged with Roosevelt's social policy from the first 100 days through to the establishment of the Social Security Administration and National Labor Relations Board in the second administration. Its history began much earlier, however, with the Interstate Commerce Commission of 1887 formed to regulate railroads. In 1914, Congress passed the Federal Trade Commission Act, which was the statutory basis of the Federal Trade Commission.

Some possibilities for 2012's best gadget might include: Google's $250 Samsung Chromebook, the Nest Learning Thermostat, the iPhone 5, the FitBit One, the Microsoft Surface, the iPad Mini, the Starbucks Verismo, the Nexus 7, and the Wii U. What else?

The Girl tried out for a part in the church Christmas play. The play is based on the nativity scene.

The evaluations are already in and they got me thinking.

And is advising its “gateway drug”?

Part 6 in my ed-tech year-in-review series. This one looks at digital textbooks and the battles to make them open.

How can we escape this new buzz about MOOCs, since the launch of Coursera? Is there anything else than the bubble effect created by the media that is part of the strategy itself?