Audrey Watters

"I am going to make it through this year, if it kills me" -- The Mountain Goats This was a big year. I turned 50. My book, Teaching Machines, was finally published. I celebrated both events — sort of but not really, and that's fine. Because the pandemic raged on,...

Teaching Machines was among the books featured on the MIT Press blog as "the buzziest" books of the year.

Teaching Machines is on several "best of" lists -- you know the kind that are frequently published at year's end. These include Librarian Shipwreck's favorite books of the year. (This means a ton as I have mad admiration for their work.) And John Warner has again plugged the book in...

The Chicago Tribune's "Biblioracle," John Warner, has picked Teaching Machines as one of his favorite non-fiction books of the year. (He also wrote a great review of the book for Inside Higher Ed.) Needless to say, I am over the moon.

"The central thesis is powerful and backed up by a breathtaking array of examples" Terry Freedman has written a review of Teaching Machines in the UK publication SchoolsWeek, giving it four out of five stars.

The NCSPE (The National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education) at Teachers College has reviewed Teaching Machines, as well as published an excerpt from the book: "readers will be glued and challenged."

I chatted with Christopher Saldaña about Teaching Machines on the NEPC Talks Education podcast. (It was a great conversation.)

I chatted with Drew Perkins from the TeachThought podcast about Teaching Machines: "Personalization and the Trouble with Teaching Machines."

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my...

Michael Horn reviewed Teaching Machines in Education Next. He tone-polices my work in the first sentence, and no surprise, he didn't like the book. The NEA Today published an interview with me about the book I gave a book talk to the Integrated Design & Media graduate colloquium at NYU....