Audrey Watters

Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Teaching Machines I’ve been working on a timeline for the book – plotting all the major dates (patents, publications, legal contracts, professorships, publicity, etc) so that I can start figuring out how the whole “narrative arc” thing is going to go Other Writing HEWN,...

Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Teaching Machines Personalization by Paper and Non-Mechanical Teaching Machines on teachingmachin.es Other Writing HEWN, No. 289 via substack.com The Groceries on audreywatters.com In the News: The Pulse Podcast on audreywatters.com Working I talked to Ben Herold briefly about a story on personalized learning I...

I was a guest on this month's The Pulse podcast, talking about the Horizon Report (ugh), high ed as job training, and more. Thanks to host Rodney Murray for inviting me to be on the show.

I’ve been thinking about food a lot lately. Well, that’s not true. I have always thought a lot about food. I spend a great deal of time each day imagining what I am going to eat next. Getting to choose what I eat each day is one of the very...

Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Machine Teaching, Machine Learning, and the History of the Future of Public Education B. F. Skinner: The Most Important Theorist of the 21st Century Teaching Machines I booked my flight to NJ/NYC for my visit to the ETS archives (as well as to the...

Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Teaching Machines Although I still have one trip to an archives planned this fall, and I’m still reading a bunch of books that the programmed instruction penned in the 1960s, I think I have almost neared the end of the “research” portion of Teaching...

I’ve been steeling myself all week for the articles that will be published on Friday, noting the twentieth anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard. I knew Matt, although he was much younger than me. We grew up in the same church, where I remember watching him and his brother...

I got my flu shot today. It’s only the second time I’ve got one. I did last year because I was taking classes at Columbia, and as teachers know, students are pretty damn germ-y. I was worried that I’d pick something up at school and bring it home to Kin,...

Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Why History Matters Teaching Machines Marketing “Personalized Learning” on teachingmachin.es Other Writing HEWN, No. 286 via substack.com The Business of Ed-Tech: September 2018 Funding Data on funding.hackeducation.com Working End-of-the-month projects included deleting old data (from Facebook) and backing up all my projects I calculated...

Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 285 via substack.com In the News: My Beef with Bezos on audreywatters.com Teaching Machines Why History Matters: The Case of the ‘Learning Engineer’ on teachingmachin.es – some of this will go into my talk next week; some of...