Audrey Watters

This post first appeared on aud.life I submitted the title of the keynote I'll deliver next month at the ICDE conference in South Africa: "Technology Imperialism, the Californian Ideology, and the Future of Higher Education." It's the middle phrase in that series that I've been thinking about this week, in...

Travel Nope. (Kin was in PDX briefly.) Upcoming week: Nope. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Ed-Tech Might Make Things Worse … Now What? Essays Elsewhere Ed-Tech Might Make Things Worse … Now What? on medium.com Speaking Nope. Known Notes and Fragments The Week in Robots...

This post first appeared on aud.life The Inevitabilities of Killer Robots Hot New Parenting Trend: Using a Drone to Pull Out a Kid’s Loose Tooth Don’t Have Sex With Robots, Say Ethicists The Roomba Now Sees and Maps a Home Robot Journalists or Robot Press Secretaries? Why Automated Reporting Doesn’t...

Travel Nope. Upcoming week: Nope. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Existing Digitally Essays Elsewhere Nope. Speaking Kin and I spoke at Emerson College in LA about “reclaim your domain” – the notes from our talk are above. Known Notes and Fragments The Week in Robots...

This post first appeared on aud.life British man builds helicopter from 54 drones & garden chair Jerry Brown Shoots Down Drone Privacy Bill Animals vs Drones Silicon Valley is raiding tech academia: “Uber would like to buy your Robotics Department” Dawn of the automatic age Your liberty will not survive...

This post first appeared on aud.life A couple more thoughts on the "top ed-tech trends" that I'm jotting down here (because where else): How might the recent instability of the Chinese economy affect all that ed-tech investment startups have received there? Trigger warnings, "Quit Lit," social media shaming, etc --...

Travel Nope. Upcoming week: Nope. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Essays Elsewhere Can Venture Capital Unlock Innovation in Education? on wise-qatar.org Speaking Nope. Known Notes and Fragments The Week in Robots Education Rankings via Klout. Still Bullshit. The 2015 Edition Other Projects I chatted with...

This post first appeared on aud.life Can You Rape a Robot? Robots Lay Three Times as Many Bricks as Construction Workers Underwater robot seeks out starfish and kills them with poison injection Burgers’ Zoo’s Tushi the chimp planned drone attack, researchers say Dartmouth College Adds A Robot To Its Practice...

This post first appeared on aud.life I didn’t plan to write about Michael Petrilli’s latest list of “Top K–12 Education Policy People on Social Media 2015,” in no small part because I said something last year. Last year was the second in a row I made the list; I didn’t...

Travel Nope. (Kin did briefly travel to San Francisco.) Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Trauma and Learning Adopt a Department of Education Dataset Essays Elsewhere Getting Started with Adopting a Federal Dataset on audreywatters.com Grief Work on audreywatters.com Speaking Nope. Known...