Audrey Watters

Teaching Machines No news. Hack Education Hack Education turned 9 this week, and I did not write a post to commemorate the event (yet). I still have a lot to think about with regards to how I’m going to move the publication forward. Traveling This past week: Kin and I...

Teaching Machines The draft has been submitted. There’s still a fair amount of editing that needs to happen. But I’m taking a week to relax before getting to work on that. And on the next book proposal. Hack Education Now that the draft of Teaching Machines is done, I do...

Teaching Machines It’s the final push now. The draft will be done on 31 May, whether I’m ready or not. Traveling This past week: Kin and I went to Portland for the weekend to see Gogol Bordello (and to see my kid). Upcoming week: Chained to my desk, finishing the...

Yes. This is a day late. Whatever. I’m busy. Teaching Machines I have not completed more chapters, as much of the week was spent in Santa Barbara. The talk that I gave there – something I’d hoped would be part of the conclusion – still needs work to become the...

Teaching Machines I’m getting closer to being done, although travel over the next few weeks – a trip to Santa Barbara and a trip to Portland – are going to slow progress a little. I finished chapters 5, 6, and 7 this week. I’m working on the conclusion now (sort...

Teaching Machines This week didn’t feel as amazing as last week, although I am still hammering out a complete chapter every 4 days. Part of my current frustration involves turning a section that doesn’t have a strong narrative into one. Working I had a conversation early in the week with...

Teaching Machines I’m back at it, and hopefully by the end of the day I will have the draft half-finished. Kin read what I’ve written so far and had nice things to say. (Yes, I realize he’s my partner and it’s his job to say nice things to me. But...

I am cited in an article by Navneet Alang in University Affairs on "The Lure of Learning Analytics." For many years now, Audrey Watters, an education writer and independent scholar based in the U.S., has been a vocal critic of education technology on her site Hack Education. Calling herself "ed-tech's...

Visiting My niece and nephew were visiting this week, so I did a lot of Seattle sight-seeing. We went to the Space Needle and the Chihuly Glass Gardens. We went to Pike Place Market. We saw the Mariners lose to the Indians. We went to the aquarium. We went whale...

Teaching Machines I made a ton of progress this week, finalizing 3 of the chapters for my draft. Visiting My niece and nephew are here for the week, so I probably won’t get much book-writing done. But we’re doing a fair amount of Seattle-sightseeing, which will be good as I’m...