Higher Ground Education is thrilled to officially announce a new venture: its first high school, the Academy of Thought and Industry. ATI will open in San Francisco in September of 2018, and is accepting student applications for its inaugural class. Higher Ground's mission is to bring Montessori education (Montessori school to the world—providing a quality Montessori education to as many students as possible, from birth to adulthood. With ATI, Higher Ground takes a significant step towards this goal, extending its early childhood and elementary offerings for the first time all the way through high school. The school's program has been designed from the ground up by Michael Strong, one of the most experienced educators specializing in alternative, high-performance high schools. ATI’s mission is to guide students to independently cultivate their own academic, professional, and personal success.

The software part of AltSchool. https://www.altitudelearning.com (more)

Higher Ground Education and Altitude Learning Partner to Modernize Education. Higher Ground will assume ownership of Altitude Learning’s technology platform, an industry-leading LMS that enables learner-centered education. (more)

AltSchool rebrands itself Altitude Learning as cofounders step aside. In the early years, AltSchool expanded what it called “lab schools” at a rapid pace, adding locations in New York and scouting sites in cities like Chicago. But operating schools is complicated, particularly when your goal, in part, is to reinvent the very idea of school. The company retrenched, consolidating its ambitions into just four school sites. And now, it is making a more formal break. (more)

My bucket-term for schools and similar institutions that provide a more Generative experience than Factory Schooling for Educating Kids. See also Product Oriented Unschooling, How To Raise Reality Hackers (more)

Meta: see (2008-11-07) Boniwell What Is Eudaimonia? The Concept Of Eudaimonic WellBeing And Happiness (more)

The Traveling Wilburys (sometimes shortened to the Wilburys) were an English–American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. Originating from an idea discussed by Harrison and Lynne during the sessions for Harrison's 1987 album Cloud Nine, the band formed in April 1988 after the five members united to record a bonus track for Harrison's next European single. When this collaboration, "Handle with Care", was deemed too good for such a limited release, the group agreed to record a full album, titled Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1. Following Orbison's death in December 1988, the Wilburys released a second album, which they titled Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, in 1990. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_Wilburys (more)

John Seely Brown and DouglasThomas have a book out called A New Culture Of Learning ISBN:1456458884 about Educating Kids. Typically, when we think of Culture, we think of an existing, stable entity that changes and evolves over long periods of time. In A New Culture, Thomas and Brown explore a second sense of culture, one that responds to its surroundings organically. It not only adapts, it integrates change into its process as one of its environmental variables. By exploring play, innovation, and the cultivation of the imagination as cornerstones of learning, the authors create a vision of learning for the future that is achievable, scalable and one that grows along with the technology that fosters it and the people who engage with it. The result is a new form of culture in which knowledge is seen as fluid and evolving, the personal is both enhanced and refined in relation to the collective, and the ability to manage, negotiate and participate in the world is governed by the play of the imagination. (more)

Ken Robinson has a book out called The Element ISBN:0670020478. The element is the point at which natural Talent meets personal Passion.

Silicon Valley School Reform player - ran schools 2013-2019, then rebranded as Altitude Learning (more)

A web proxy Private Web that layers a Wiki namespace and auto-linking over non-wiki browser-readable pages, e.g EMail, other websites? (more)

A browser extension is a small software module for customizing a web browser. Browsers typically allow a variety of extensions, including user interface modifications, ad blocking, and cookie management.[1] Browser plug-ins are a separate type of module. The main difference is that extensions are usually just source code, but plug-ins are always executables (i.e. object code). As of 2021, plug-ins have been deprecated by most browsers, while extensions are widely used. The most popular browser, Google Chrome,[2] has over 100,000 extensions available but no longer supports plug-ins.[3][4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_extension

Lots of people building NoteTaking apps try to create a multi-sub-window experience in a single browser window. I don't like that because I never have enough control over a bunch of sub-windows. (more)

NumberThree's AirPods not holding charge - the left one lasts 3hrs, the right one lasts less than a minute? Even when not being used at all. (more)

The United States Digital Service is an elite technology unit[1][2] housed within the Executive Office of the President of the United States. It provides consultation services to federal agencies on information technology. It seeks to improve and simplify digital service, and to improve federal websites. It was launched on August 11, 2014. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service

Wyden seeks funds for USDS, 18F to help states amid COVID-19. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and 15 Democratic colleagues are asking congressional leadership to appropriate more funds for federal technology innovators to help states whose legacy IT systems are fracturing under the demand created by the COVID-19 pandemic. (more)

18F slices ATO times to from 6 months to 30 days. ...reduce the time it takes to process an authority to operate (ATO) from more than six months down to 30 days with a series of collaborative strategies. (more)

Ben Balter: The difference between 18F and USDS. Although similar on paper, the two approach the challenge with two very divergent goals: one was created to ship culture and the other was created to ship confidence. It’s the age-old saga of geeks vs. suits. (more)

Brian Whittaker takes over as acting executive director of 18F. Whittaker has been with GSA since 2016. Most recently, since November 2017, he has worked as deputy executive director of the Centers of Excellence initiative. (more)

Now 10 years old, Code for America hopes for government to walk alone. As Jennifer Pahlka moves on from her role as Code for America’s chief executive, the nonprofit she founded a decade ago now includes 25,000 fellows and volunteers nationwide (more)