Audrey Watters

I’m cited in Ben Herold’s story this week in Education Week that asks “Are Companies Overselling Personalized Learning?” (I also provided some newspaper images from the 1960s to show that this overselling has a history of its own.

I suppose I’ve seen this coming for a while now – but an online service I have for 13 nows year seems to finally be pushing me away for good. Flickr, acquired then abandoned by Yahoo, has new owners now, who are ending the free service as we know it....

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,...