Audrey Watters

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...

This post first appeared on aud.life How Close Are We Really To A Robot-Run Society? The drone warfare game where you spy on players with your smartphone A Robotic Walk in the Woods Amazing Video Tour of a 1985 Home Automation System What Higher Ed Jobs Will Robots Be Doing...

This post first appeared on aud.life My granny was something of a Letter Writer, as I imagine all of her family will attest. She had to be, what with four children who went away to boarding school, two of whom moved from England to North America, and with grandchildren and...

Travel Madison, Hermosa Beach, and Amsterdam Upcoming week: Toronto and Brooklin (Maine) Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Teaching Machines and Turing Machines: The History of the Future of Labor and Learning Testing: Moving Beyond the Public Relations Battle And So, Without Ed-Tech Criticism… Essays Elsewhere...

This post first appeared on aud.life Please don’t have sex with robots BeachBot, A Robotic Turtle That Creates Large Works of Art in the Sand of a Beach A Robot Analysis of All of America’s State of the Union Addresses A Robotic ‘Mother’ Builds Its Own Robot Children From Motorized...

Travel Nope. Upcoming week: Madison and Amsterdam. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Essays Elsewhere Nope. Speaking Nope. Known Notes and Fragments The Week in Robots Other Projects I contributed a few thoughts on women in ed-tech for a talk Joyce Valenza’s working on. I wrote...