Audrey Watters

Every Friday, I write an article that links to all the education news I’ve seen cross my desk during the previous week. Ostensibly, it’s with an eye to education technology, but you cannot talk about education technology without situating its promotion and adoption in the politics of education more broadly....

Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 236 via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on robots.hackeducation.com NYC, Day 54 on fragments.audreywatters.com The History of the Future of “Everyone Should Learn to Code” on fragments.audreywatters.com The Contrafabulists The Week in Predictions on predictions.contrafabulists.com Spencer Fellowship Week...

But I can change, I can change, I can change, I can changeI can change, I can change, I can change If it helps you fall in love (in love) – LCD Soundsystem In a speech at the Council of the Great City Schools last week, Bill Gates announced that...

I’m working on an article as part of my Spencer Fellowship and part of the larger research I’m undertaking this year (which involves tracking the networks of influence among technology investors and entrepreneurs interested in education, education technology, and education reform). Where did this “learn to code” craze come from?...

I am not sure when it’s really “official.” Am I a New Yorker when I rent an apartment? When I register to vote? When I get my New York driver’s license? I’ve done the first two at least. This weekend, I returned to the apartment Kin and I called home...

Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News What Ivanka Trump Knows about Ed-Tech Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 235 via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on robots.hackeducation.com The Ivanka Trump Ed-Tech Industry Network on network.hackeducation.com The Contrafabulists The Week in Predictions on predictions.contrafabulists.com Spencer Fellowship Week 6 of classes I...

A literature review for Evidence and Inference, a class I'm sitting in on as part of my Spencer Fellowship. “Personalized learning” has become something of a buzzword in education circles in recent years – shorthand, in many cases, for the potential for new technologies to reshape how schools operate and...

Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 234 via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on robots.hackeducation.com New York City, Day 39 on audreywatters.com Initial Thoughts on Conspiracy Theories in Education on fragments.audreywatters.com Unverified on audreywatters.com The Contrafabulists Podcast, Episode 69: “Repeat Again” The Week in...

I’ve tried half a dozen times now to get my Twitter account verified. Each time, I’ve been rejected. “We reviewed the account, and unfortunately it is not eligible to be verified at this time.” Here are the 500 characters I submitted this last time around, requesting the blue checkmark: Globally-recognized...

Someone asked me the other day how I respond to charges that my work involves conspiracy theories about a “billionaire boys’ club” seeking the privatization of education. And it struck me that education reform and education technology have been caught up in aspersions accusations about “evidence” and accusations of “fake...