Audrey Watters

I’m not sure what I expected when I paid off my student loans. A nice note from the bank, I guess. A form letter from the Secretary of Education. I didn’t think I’d receive a gift basket, a trophy, a ribbon. But I thought I’d get something. Partly, I wanted...

Travel Victoria BC, Vancouver BC, Seattle WA, Portland OR, Dufur OR Upcoming week: Not sure… Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 177 via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on audreywatters.com Thoughts on Colin Kaepernick on fragments.audreywatters.com In Motion on techgypsi.es Drone Recovery on techgypsi.es...

Robot baby dolls could increase teen pregnancies, abortions, study shows Can a bot commit libel? Chicken AI What Robots Can Learn from Babies Mark Zuckerberg gives Pope Francis a drone After replacing human editors with an algorithm, Facebook ended up with a fake Trending news story In a first, FAA...

(Reposted from Facebook) Hate the 49ers. Love Colin Kaepernick. Full respect. 1) Among the things that makes this country "great"? We aren't mandated to respond a certain way to the flag or to the national anthem or to other nationalist symbols 2) White folks love to see black folks be...

Travel Portland OR, Astoria OR, Aberdeen WA, Port Angeles WA, Victoria BC (photos – mine and Drone Recovery’s – are on Flickr) Upcoming week: Vancouver BC, Seattle WA, ??? Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News A Domain of One’s Own in a Post-Ownership Society Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No....

AI’s Research Rut Beer Pong Bot Do we really want drone delivery? Prepare to be Underwhelmed by 2021’s Autonomous Cars Domino’s Now Delivering Pizza by Drone, Because Robots Are So Last Week Amazon and the CIA Want to Teach AI to Watch Us from Space New FAA Drone Rules Take...

Travel Overnight stays in Goleta CA, Corte Madera CA, Arcata CA, Grants Pass OR, Portland OR Upcoming week: I dunno… Astoria, then northward Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 175 via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on audreywatters.com Speaking Nope Teaching Nope Other Projects...

The Robot You Want Most Is Far from Reality Overhead Drone Footage Captures the Current Construction Progress of Apple Campus 2 Valve-opening robot fail The robots are coming! Hundreds of Indiana elementary schools get funds to teach science and math through robotics How self-driving cars could make everything worse, and...

Travel Fredericksburg, VA; Hermosa Beach, CA Upcoming week: Not sure… Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Writing Here and Elsewhere HEWN, No. 174 via tinyletter.com Digital Pedagogy Lab Institute: The “Action” Track on audreywatters.com Speaking I wasn’t a keynote at this DigPed event, but I did introduce Monday’s keynote, my...

These are the notes and reflections from my week at the University of Mary Washington where I was an instructor at the Digital Pedagogy Summer Institute. I taught the “Action” track, which aimed to tackle questions around making change inside and outside education institutions and with and against digital technologies....