Travel (and Speaking)
I left Hermosa Beach on Wednesday, flying to JFK. I spoke Thursday at NYU and Saturday at The New School. I’m typing this up now from Penn Station, where I’m waiting for my train to take me to DC.
Was told I had the most depressing image of #DL14. Congrats ed-tech pic.twitter.com/FjnjOPSgjs
— Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) November 15, 2014
Upcoming week: Washington DC, Arlington and Fredericksburg, Virginia
Hack Education Writing
- Hack Education Weekly News
- Hack Education Weekly Newsletter
- Convivial Tools in an Age of Surveillance
- Digital Labor & Geographies of Crisis
Editing Educating Modern Learners
- Understanding the “Maker Movement” with Dr. Gary Stager, by Bruce Dixon
- There’s Really Only One Way to "Raise Student Engagement,” by Will Richardson
- It’s Gonna Take More Than a “Genius Hour,” by me
- What You Should Know This Week: Chromebooks’ Popularity, by me
- EML Newsletters (Tuesday, Friday)
Other Projects
My interview as part of the IATEFL event Ed-Tech Concerns went live. Episode 3 and Episode 4.
I was surprised and very honored to get an email Friday morning, telling me I’d been nominated for a Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant. The $5000 will be used to support my work on Hack Education.
Reading
I finished reading William Gibson’s The Peripheral. I started reading Gabriella Coleman’s new book on Anonymous, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy.
Friends and Family
Kin’s not traveling with me this week or most of next. He was off to San Francisco briefly. So that’s a bummer. I hate being apart. One of the great things about this visit to NYC: I got to see my friend Sava Saheli Singh and got to meet her beau Tim Maughan.