Audrey Watters

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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...

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....

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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...