Audrey Watters

Teaching Machines After all the end-of-year writing, it's now time to finish this manuscript. Hack Education "The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade" Other Writing HEWN, No. 336 and HEWN, No. 337 via substack.com "Happy New Year, Patreon Patrons" on patreon.com Working Much of this past week has been...

This has been a very strange year, and I won't lie, I am glad that it's coming to a close. We moved from Hermosa Beach to Seattle in January — the third move in less than two years. Kin got a job, left a job, got a new job. I...

Working I barely had the energy to write this week's review as I am working very very hard to complete a long list of the top 100 shittiest things about ed-tech from the last decade. Hopefully I will write some better "year in review" pieces here on this blog before...

Teaching Machines I received the peer reviews for Teaching Machines this week, so the next task is to think about their suggestions and finalize the manuscript. Ideally, I’ll have this done by early January. Other Writing HEWN, No. 335 via substack.com Working I’m working on the end-of-the-year and end-of-the-decade articles...

Writing HEWN, No. 334 via substack.com Traveling This past week: Seattle, Hermosa Beach. Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach, Seattle. Icon credits: The Noun Project

Writing HEWN, No. 333 via substack.com Traveling This past week: Seattle, Las Vegas. Upcoming week: Seattle, San Francisco, Hermosa Beach. Reading and Viewing I finished The Water Dancer; I started Dismantlings. We are watching The Watchmen, The Mandalorian, and His Dark Materials. I also started Season 3 of The Crown....

Hack Education "Ed-Tech Agitprop" -- the transcript of my talk at OEB Other Writing HEWN, No. 332 via substack.com Speaking I spoke at the Berlin offices of Wikimedia Deutschland at an event called "Open for a Cause." I spoke at OEB 2019 (my transcript is posted above). And I was...

Teaching Machines I talked to a friend this week who I've let read the draft. We had a good discussion about what I need to do to strengthen what he identified as the voice of "Folklorist Audrey" in the book. Other Writing HEWN, No. 331 via substack.com Working I've finished...

Teaching Machines No updates. Hack Education No updates, although I’m starting to think about what I’ll do with my writing there. I will probably relaunch the site in the new year with more frequently commentary. But we shall see. Other Writing HEWN, No. 330 via substack.com Working I don’t know...

I was recently interviewed by Training Journal about my upcoming keynote at OEB. When asked what I planned to speak about, I said, "The conference is weeks away! I don't know yet exactly what I'm going to talk about. But I have been thinking of the stories we tell about...