New tattoos! I absolutely love getting tattooed. I mean, I love having tattoos, but the actual tattoo experience is an incredible endorphin release. I was really out of it on Monday (too much "Reclaim" I guess), but I managed to have a productive week nonetheless. I feel like I'm making some progress on the book finally (I say that now as the summer quickly disappears). There was some of the usual: getting into fights on the Internet, newsletter writing, news round-up writing, a story for EML, and so on. [...]
My Week in Review
Not a lot to report. I'm sitting here typing this up at the 2nd Annual Reclaim Your Domain Hackathon (which, yes, means I'm not really working that hard on hacking at reclaiming my domain. Oh well. I'm blogging. That counts as something, right?) I feel like I didn't really accomplish much this past week (that is an interesting side effect of this weekly review: I can review what a slacker I've been. Woot.) [...]
My Week in Review
A largely uneventful week. When I write it all out, it looks like I didn't get much done. I guess I read a lot. Some Twitter fights, I suppose. I marveled in the amazing MOOC mystery surrounding Coursera's #massiveteaching class (which appears to be a massive ethical failure, if nothing else). Not a great week emotionally for me dad-wise. My credit score sucks, I was reminded this week too. But hey, I killed my Facebook account and am starting to disentangle myself from Google. So progress in reclaiming my life there, I suppose. [...]
My Week in Review
No travel. No speaking. Work on the book. Fighting on the Internet. Fireworks-watching. Beer-drinking. Website updating. Blogging. Editing. Newsletter-sending. Watching football. Reading. Note-taking. Abstract-writing. Exiting Facebook. Mourning the sudden death of a friend. [...]
My Week in Review
On the road to Atlanta for ISTE (or at least the unconference held the day before the big show). It was awful -- emotionally grueling. Number of conferences since I burst into tears counter has been reset to 0. I wrote a good little story about ed-tech patents. I was mentioned twice in the OLDaily (which always feels like a triumph). I think I'm gonna close my Facebook account. Tune in next week... [...]
My Week in Review
To and from Bolton, UK. (A new place for me.) A keynote. A session presentation. Cider. New friends and old friends. A wee bit of writing, but quite a bit of editing. Lots of reading. Did you hear that?! Lots of reading! I finished Piketty! And feeling pretty lonely as Kin is still on the road too (but without me. Sniff.) I'm home for six whole days before I travel again. Yay! [...]
Author
Audrey Watters is an education writer, a recovering academic, a serial dropout, and some days, ed-tech's Kassandra.
Speaking & Travel
- ALT Conference, September 1-3
- Digital Labor: Sweatshops, Picket Lines, and Barricades, November 14-16
Recommended Reading
- Against "Innovation", May 14, 2014
- Beneath the Cobblestones... A Domain of One's Own, April 25, 2014
- 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
