Audrey Watters

This is a comment I left on Sherri Spelic's blog post "Nobody's Version of Dumb" I think there are massive problems with Twitter. It is, by design, a platform for harassment. Think, for example, of how easy it is to retweet something in order to create a “pile on.” @-mentions...

We had a substitute teacher last night for the first session of our seminar on Opinion Writing. Professor Jelani Cobb couldn’t make it, so he sent his friend Ta-Nehisi Coates. I should have taken notes. Instead I sat there starstruck as TNC graciously answered the class’s questions on writing. Those...

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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...