Carolyn Fox

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Carolyn Fox is an educator, librarian, historian, and an un/homeschooling mother. She lives in Massachusetts with her UK husband and son.

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Authored Content

Representing women in STEAM and open source

The latest talk in education circles is moving from a STEM-based method of teaching (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) to a STEAM-based one (science…

leadership through influence poster in a classroom with a teacher and students

The case for digital literacy and open source in classrooms

Municipalities across America should be working to bring open source educational tools to schoolchildren so they will have the necessary digital literacy skills to tap into…

Parents of non-traditional learners advocate for open education

While Thomas Edison is often lauded as the most prolific American inventor, his mother, Nancy Edison, and how she fostered an open education and an open mind in her son is…

Zimbabwe pushes for open education despite oppression

Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa. For many years, it was regarded as the breadbasket of Africa. But since Zimbabwe gained…

The code for open source milk is cracked

My son was recently put on a temporary alternative milk diet, no cow, rice, or soy milk. I panicked. My entire life my family has been a cow's milk household—I don't know a…

Open brain program aims to improve our working memories

Brain Workshop is an open brain training program that may help children with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) by focusing on learning and memory. It is designed…

Authored Comments

wivenhoe

23 Oct 2013

Four ways to better educate girls inside and outside the classroom

Thanks Luis. Well said!

wivenhoe

23 Sep 2013

Coursefork: a new way to collaborate on open education

Open source will build a much better education. I totally agree.

The corporate conglomerates have been dominating the k-12 market for many years. Pearson, McGraw-Hill and other textbook publishing houses have really blocked any educational alternatives to printed/av materials in k-12 for years and years.

In time, there will be a tipping point with open source in education, but the road to the tipping point will not be smooth and there will be many barriers (local, state, and other policies and regulations, for instance) to bringing open source to the k-12 market. But the k-12 market is ripe for disruption as you say and for an open global education revolution.