Audrey Watters

Alexander Russo of The Grade sent me a list of questions – a follow-up to some comments I’d made in one of my newsletters about the problems with journalism and (ed-)tech trade publications. His description of my work is a bit odd. I have “tunnel vision” he contends, and do...

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As quoted in “What Should (and Shouldn't) Personalized Learning Look Like?” by Education Week’s Ben Herold: Personalized learning should not: Put students at risk -- put their data at risk, their choices at risk, their futures at risk. But that is absolutely what it's poised to do.

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As quoted in “The Case(s) Against Personalized Learning,” by Education Week’s Ben Herold: K-12 educators and policymakers should question the forces driving that narrative, said Audrey Watters, an independent researcher who maintains the popular Hack Education blog. The push for more personalized learning isn't happening in a vacuum, Watters maintained....

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I’m starting a new feature here, one I am absolutely ripping off from Doug Levin, where I highlight the media in which I’m cited. As quoted in “Citing Investor Priorities, AltSchool Closes Some Sites, Pivots to Software Sales,” by Education Week’s Ben Herold: Many such ventures “involve grand experimentation on...

I love the old Guy Debord saying “Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it.” Of course, Debord stole the quotation from Comte de Lautréamont’s Poésies II: “Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It holds tight an author’s phrase, uses his expressions, eliminates a false idea, and replaces it with just the...

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I am not a “blogger,” although because I write primarily online and run my own publication, that’s how I’m often described. I get it. The ol’ “journalism versus blogging” debate hasn’t really disappeared. This site, however, is a blog. This is where I post my half-baked ideas. (Hack Education, by...