Audrey Watters

Cross-posted from Facebook I grow weary of all this talk that certain things are "distractions" from "the real story." I believe you can hold many ideas, multiple agitations and angers in your head all at once. You can pay attention to many stories. Really. You can. See, I was widowed...

Words have been hard to summon for a while now. One of the things I enjoy about writing this weekly review of my work is it helps me to see that I still do accomplish things, even when I'm feeling remarkably unproductive. This week, there were many words. Hack Education...

Cross-posted from Facebook I'm from a red state, from a red family, tho I know my politics deviated early. So I'm used to different politics and visions for the future. But right now I am so angry and so disappointed and so disgusted in every single person I know --...

Disclosure (because I guess we are supposed to be more forthright about this): I have connections with the Russians I visited the Soviet Union in 1991. It was a school field trip. I traded rubles on the black market. I traded a Metallica t-shirt for a Red Army belt. I...

Family My little brother and his family were visiting this week, so I did much more touristing than work. We went to Disneyland, Le Brea Tar Pits, Griffith Observatory, and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Calling Education to a Count Writing Here and Elsewhere...

Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News What’s On the Horizon (Still, Again, Always) Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 201 via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on robots.hackeducation.com Rationalizing Those “Irrational” Fears of inBloom on points.datasociety.net Contrafabulists (Podcast and Publishing) The Tech Gypsies Podcast, Episode 43 Introducing: The Contrafabulists Contrafabulists...

Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 200 via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on robots.hackeducation.com Education Secretaries and a Progressive Path Forward on fragments.audreywatters.com DeVos’ Higher Ed Agenda on fragments.audreywatters.com Speaking Nope Teaching Nope Other Projects Kin and I talked with Bryan Mathers again...

Cross-posted to Facebook I don’t think DeVos is going to get much done when it comes to any K–12 policy agenda that involves vouchers. But this administration is going to come hard for higher ed. Our President, after all, ran a scam college. One of his closer education advisors is...

Cross-posted to Facebook Even if Democrats lose this vote – and it’s likely they will – I hope that they have learned a lesson with Betsy DeVos: people care about education. It doesn’t always figure into debates. It doesn’t always poll as well as “the economy” or “national security.” But...

Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 199 via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on robots.hackeducation.com Dropbox Deleted on audreywatters.com Speaking I gave a talk at the University of Richmond on “Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump” (see transcript...