Audrey Watters

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...

Today is the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Today is the 10th anniversary of Anthony’s death. I cringe at the annual reflections on the storm, I admit. I am never certain if or how the waves of grief might hit me, and certainly there’s never any escaping the date. This...

This post first appeared on aud.life On the origin of (robot) species Financial Robo-Advisers Go Into Overdrive as Market Rumbles Drone Pilot Is Surprised to Find a Man Sunbathing on Top of a 200-Foot Wind Turbine, Man Is Surprised to Be Found North Dakota cops can now use lobbyist-approved taser/pepper-spray...

~THIS IS A VERY ROUGH DRAFT of a guide to help people get started with Kin Lane's Adopta.Agency project~ Tools you’ll need: A GitHub account GitHub’s desktop software for Windows or Mac (optional) A text editor for code (I use Sublime Text. There are many options, free and paid. Experiment...

This post first appeared on aud.life There are still many months before I start my annual round-up of ed-tech trends, but I think about the project year round. Here are the things I'm tracking on -- clearly I've got to narrow this down by December: The Business of Ed-Tech The...

Travel Amsterdam to LAX; LAX to Toronto; Toronto to Brooklin (Maine); Brooklin (via Bangor) to Hermosa Beach Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Essays Elsewhere The MOOC Revolution that Wasn’t in kernelmag.dailydot.com Speaking I spoke at my Granny’s memorial service in Toronto...