Audrey Watters

I understand the desire for people to say after this weekend’s violence that we must “teach love.” But it’s such an insipid and inadequate response to what happened in Charlottesville. We must teach history. Indeed we must radically reshape what and how it is taught, particularly in K–12. That includes...

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I was asked to give a "provocation" to the Open Pedagogy and Social Justice track at this year's Digital Pedagogy Lab in Vancouver, BC. Here's (roughly) what I said: When Rajiv and Robin sent me an email, asking me to pop into the class and say a few words to...

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I'm posting my responses here to a friend that's working on a story on neo-feudalism. I think there are some interesting ideas here that could be developed more... One of the reasons I wanted to talk to you was because it occurs to me that this use of the term...

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