Tweet of the Week

“The great unbundling of higher education” that investors tout will exacerbate educational inequalities, but that’s probably the point

— Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) May 4, 2016

Hack Education

• Hack Education Weekly News
• Who’s Investing in Ed-Tech (2010–2016)
• Identity, Power, and Education’s Algorithms

Writing Elsewhere

• Hack Education Weekly Newsletter via tinyletter.com
• The Week in Robots on audreywatters.com
• Who’s Investing in Ed-Tech (2010–2016) on funding.hackeducation.com

Travel

• Nope
• Upcoming week: Nope. (I did purchase my airplane ticket to Dublin. I’m headed there in a couple of weeks)

Speaking

• Nope

Other Projects

• Kin and I recorded Episode 3 of our new podcast
• I’ve been working on the keynote I’ll deliver in Dublin at EdTech2016
• Three months sober!
• I responded to request by a high school student, Amina Chowdhury, to talk about teens and social media
• I talked with Kira Baker-Doyle about research she’s conducting on social media and education activism
• Bryan Mathers and I chatted again about a new Hack Education logo he’s drawing for me
• I’m cited in a story in The Chronicle of Higher Education on investor, basketball team owner, and reality TV star Mark Cuban

Reading

• I finished Abby Smith Rumsey’s When We Are No More
• I started Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth and Neal Stephenson’s Reamde

Family and Friends

• Several friends stopped through LA this week: dinner with Tony Blank and a late lunch with Damian Bebell

Image credits: The Noun Project