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Question Tank is a personal blog at jackcwest.wordpress.com. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “My 7 Year Old Son Found His People at the Maker Faire”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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47mentions?
4HN people?
2011–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 27 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in two threads as a direct or permalink to posts about a seven-year-old's experience at a Maker Faire and about bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) policies in schools. The comments say nothing about the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Teaching and learning, science, research, and speculation

Most-linked posts?

  1. My 7 Year Old Son Found His People at the Maker Faire
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. jmillikin · 2012-05-23
    Direct link: http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/last-saturday-my-s...

    Comment linking /2012/05/22/last-saturday-my-son-found-his-people-at-the-maker-faire/

    on “My 7 Year Old Son Found His People at the Maker Faire”
  2. jackwest · 2012-05-23

    Submitted My 7 Year Old Son Found His People at the Maker Faire as a story · 147 points

    HN discussion
  3. GiraffeNecktie · 2011-08-28
    Permalink http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/byot-is-a-good-ide...

    Comment linking /2011/08/24/byot-is-a-good-idea-lets-address-the-issues-directly/

    on “BYOT to school is going to happen – K12 is bracing for impact”
  4. mikeleeorg · 2011-08-22

    Submitted Khan Academy Put to the Test as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  5. jackwest · 2012-06-24

    Submitted Big Data Will Save Education from Tooth Decay as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. jackwest · 2011-08-31

    Submitted Oakland Blended Learning with Khan Academy Results Are In as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. jackwest · 2012-08-26

    Submitted So This is Democracy - Edcamp, the Unconference as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. jackwest · 2012-03-26

    Submitted Blended Learning, Merit Pay, and My Wife as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. jackwest · 2012-01-29

    Submitted Power to the People - Wolfram Gives us Free Interactive Algebra 1 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. jackwest · 2012-01-21

    Submitted Kids Score 20% higher on Stdized Algebra Test After Learning on iPad as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. jackwest · 2011-12-14

    Submitted Online Learning - Let's Make it Better as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. mikeleeorg · 2011-11-08

    Submitted Independent EdTech Research – Untethered Mad Science as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. jackwest · 2011-10-15

    Submitted Clickers with a webcam, and a 2D barcode on paper. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. jackwest · 2011-09-05

    Submitted Dashboards in K12 Education, Boon or Bane as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. jackwest · 2013-06-04

    Submitted Google Plus Made My Students Say More as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. jackwest · 2013-05-01

    Submitted Glass Might Pose Biggest Challenge Education Has Seen Since Desegregation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. jackwest · 2013-03-16

    Submitted So Much Education Data Yet Still So Little Meaning as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. jackwest · 2012-11-04

    Submitted Forget About One to One, Mass-heads Do It with Two to One as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. jackwest · 2012-10-19

    Submitted Twenty Five Million Dollars for Blended Learning as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. jackwest · 2012-10-06

    Submitted Too Much Screen Time in School? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. jackwest · 2012-08-12

    Submitted Future Learning Short Smells Like Soyulent Green as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. jackwest · 2012-08-09

    Submitted Entrepreneur Education to Save Our Dominance as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. jackwest · 2012-08-01

    Submitted Taking a Test While Wearing Google Glasses as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. jackwest · 2012-07-17

    Submitted Whither the Test When Information is Ubiquitous? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. jackwest · 2012-06-14

    Submitted Brace for What's Coming: Themes from Launch Education and Kids as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. jackwest · 2012-05-03

    Submitted Why "Just How Small is the Atom" Has Most Views on TED-Ed as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. jackwest · 2012-04-24

    Submitted A Re-examination of a DOE Meta-Study on Online Learning as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. jackwest · 2012-04-17

    Submitted Translating Krug's Usability to Edtech as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. jackwest · 2012-04-01

    Submitted How Edtech Can Raise the Standard of the Teaching Profession as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. jackwest · 2012-03-13

    Submitted Edtech Innovation Curve - Infographic as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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