My Week in Review

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Nope. Yesterday was one of the annual cringeworthy days for Hermosa Beach livin': the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. I’m a little worried how hot it is in Los Angeles already. But hey. Sunshine. I can put up with one or two days of drunkenness in the streets, as long as the water supply holds up. (Gulp.)
Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach.

The video conversation among Cory Doctorow, Nishant Shah, Dan Gillmor, Ulrich Boser, and myself on privacy, education, and trust was released for Open Education Week. (Thank you, Jonathan Worth. This was great.)
Sara Goldrick-Rab and I finished a book review of Kevin Carey’s The End of College; now looking for a place to publish it.
I gave a talk to Leeds Beckett University on gender and education technology. (Transcript above.)
I spoke to Alec Couros’ EDCI 569 class on equity, identity, and education technology. (My slides are here.)
I had several wonderful conversations via phone with The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Jennifer Howard for a story she’s working on.
I attended the Friday afternoon FedWiki hangout for the Teaching Machines Happening. Sadly, I missed Saturday’s as the WiFi was out here.
I had a planning call with Bryan Alexander and ELI folks for an upcoming webinar we’ll facilitate about the Horizon Report.
My revisions to the manuscript for Reclaim Your Domain were submitted.
I talked to the MIT Media Lab’s Mitch Resnick for a story I’m working on about Lego Mindstorms.

We binge-watched Season 1 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. (The theme song is stuck in my head.)
I finished Jill Lepore’s The Secret History of Wonder Woman, and I’m reading Liz Losh’s The War on Learning again.

Audrey Watters