David Murphy's Occasional Blog

Google supports it. Bill Gates loves it – so much so that he’s donated significant funds to it, and apparently his children are using it. It’s more popular that MIT’s Open Courseware (in terms of numbers of views, anyway). So who could possibly be unhappy with Khan Academy?

Why is Google following me? Why do I now see advertisements for funeral insurance on my webmail page? I know I’m old, but c’mon! And right now I’m getting hotel and travel tips scattered around my regular websites, such as The Age. Just to make this perfectly clear, I’m looking at an Australian online newspaper, [...]

We’re all pretty taken with the new technology and the learning environments we’re able to construct, so it does us good to be pulled up every now and then and questioned about our blithe enthusiasm and at times unwarranted assumptions.