Audrey Watters
Writer
My Week in Review
Travel Nope Upcoming week: Nope Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News The Curse of the Monsters of Education Technology What Happened in Ed-Tech in 2016 (And Who Paid for It)? Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 194 via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on robots.hackeducation.com Who Were 2016’s Most Active...
My Year in Review
My idols are dead and my enemies are in power. Keynotes and Presentations “‘I Love My Label’: Resisting the Pre-Packaged Sound in Ed-Tech” presented at Davidson College. “The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech” at the Irish Learning Technology Association’s annual conference. “Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change” at the Digital...
My Week in Review
Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Education Technology and the Ideology of Personalization Education Technology’s Ideologies Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 193 via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on robots.hackeducation.com Who’s Funding Character Education Startups? on funding.hackeducation.com Who’s Funding Personalized Learning Startups? on funding.hackeducation.com Who’s Funding Predictive Analytics in...
Mutually Assured Destruction Again
Cross-posed to Facebook I grew up in Wyoming in the 1970s and 1980s. I grew up fearing that nuclear war was bound to happen. I felt the word “assured” in that phrase “mutually assured destruction” meant our destruction was inevitable. Nuclear war was inevitable. I also knew that Wyoming had...
My Week in Review
Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Education Technology and the “New” Economy Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing Education Technology and Data Insecurity Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 192 via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on robots.hackeducation.com Adding Your Name to a List on fragments.hackeducation.com...
Adding Your Name to a List
A comment, left on Facebook, to a post urging professors to add their name to a Watchlist, created by a conservative website, of liberal professors to keep an eye on. I feel like this is a terrible and dangerous idea, one that reflects a privilege that many scholars do not...
My Week in Review
Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News The Business of Education Technology Education Technology and the Promise of “Free” and “Open” Education Technology and the “New” For-Profit Higher Education Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 191 via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on robots.hackeducation.com Education Companies and the Stock Market on...
My Week in Review
Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Top Ed-Tech Trends: A Review Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking The Politics of Education Technology Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 90 via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on robots.hackeducation.com Ed-Tech Funding Data: November 2016 on funding.hackeducation.com Who’s Funding Virtual Reality...
Revoking Citizenship
Cross-posted to Facebook I don’t believe Trump’s tweets – even when they seem unhinged – are a “distraction.” And that’s even if he very much hopes you talk about the tweet rather than whatever latest scandal is making headlines. I do believe that we can pay attention to more than...
My Week in Review
Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Support Hack Education Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 198 via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on robots.hackeducation.com (Reversing) Pigeon Extinction on pigeons.hackeducation.com Other Projects Kin and I recorded the latest episode of our podcast I’ve been working on my “Top Ed-Tech Trends” this...