Announcing a new project with Will Richardson and Bruce Dixon: Educating Modern Learners, a subscription-based website and newsletter for education leaders. We want to carve a path forward where we talk about the future of teaching and learning with technology but do so without pushing the corporate ed reform agenda. We want to challenge that agenda without arguing that school-as-is is "just fine." [...]
Speaking and Traveling (January and February 2014)
And (next week) we're off: the speaking and traveling and madness begins. I'm looking at an incredibly crazy schedule for the next few weeks. Multiple cities. Multiple venues. All different talks. (Because I'm like the Grateful Dead - always performing a unique set for my audience.) Also I have a big announcement coming up, but I don't talk about that here. Just where you'll find me through the first week of February. [...]
New Year, N3w P@ssw0rds
I spent much of this, the first day of 2014, updating all my passwords. I should probably perform this task more than once a year, I realize. But I bet I still do this far more regularly than most other folks do. Some thoughts on a pain-in-the-ass process... [...]
2013 in Review
An obligatory (but sorta half-assed as I'm coming down with the flu, dammit) end-of-the-year review. All the talks and all the travel. I was very blessed in 2013, even though the year turned out nothing like I expected. [...]
Where in the World is Audrey Watters?
An update on my upcoming speaking engagements (super exciting!) and on my book (crap, delayed!) and on my new life in Washington DC (weird, but I'm coping!). [...]
Author
Audrey Watters is an education writer, rabble-rouser, rambler, recovering academic, lifelong learner, serial dropout, part-time badass, mom.
Speaking & Travel
- SXSWedu, March 3-6
- Digital Learning Conference, April 7-8
- Domain of One's Own Incubator, TBD
- Canadian Network for Innocation in Education, May 13-16
- CETIS, June 17-18
Recommended Reading
- Student Data is the New Oil: MOOCs, Metaphor, and Money, October 17, 2013
- A Future With Only 10 Universities, October 15, 2013
- The Myth and Millennialism of "Disruptive Innovation", May 24, 2013
- Click Here to Save Education: Evgeny Morozov and Ed-Tech Solutionism, March 26, 2013
- Hacking at Education: TED, Technology Entrepreneurship, Uncollege, and the Hole in the Wall, March 3, 2013
- The Real Reason I Dropped Out of a PhD Program, August 29, 2012
- "The Audrey Test": Or, What Should Every Techie Know About Education?, March 17, 2012
- Apple and the Digital Textbook Counter-Revolution, January 19, 2012
- Codecademy and the Future of (Not) Learning to Code, October 28, 2011
- The Wrath Against Khan: Why Some Educators Are Questioning Khan Academy, July 19, 2011
