Audrey Watters
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The Week in Robots
This post first appeared on aud.life Hitchhiking Robot Lasts Just Two Weeks in US Because Humans Are Terrible Teach Your Robot to Do the Dishes Military Robots: Armed, but How Dangerous? Drone footage of gray whales and calves Egyptian Lingerie and the Robot Future Shall I Compare Thee To An...
My Week in Review
Travel Nope (unless you count a trip up to Woodland Hills to visit the kid). Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Ed-Tech Funding: The Year (The Data) So Far Rethinking ‘What Counts’ Essays Elsewhere Ed-Tech Funding: The Year (The Data) So Far...
The Week in Robots
This post first appeared on aud.life The Guy Who Taught AI to ‘Remember’ Is Launching a Startup Interview with Alexander Rose, contestant on the ABC series Battlebots Drone Film Festival teaBOT, A Robot That Mixes and Brews Custom Blends of Loose Leaf Teas Facebook Taking Open-Source Software Ethos to Drones...
Future Teacher from the Past
This post first appeared on aud.life The history of the future of teacher evaluation, by Hall Davidson in 1992: I watched this on Saturday night when I was at Gary Stager's birthday party. Hall was there. So was Roger Wagner (of Roger Wagner Hyperstudio fame) and Sylvia's boss from when...
My Week in Review
Travel Nope. Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter AlphaSmart: A History of One of Ed-Tech’s Favorite (Drop-Kickable) Writing Tools Essays Elsewhere AlphaSmart: A History of One of Ed-Tech’s Favorite (Drop-Kickable) Writing Tools on educationfuturism.com Speaking Nope. Known Notes and Fragments The Week...
The Week in Robots
This post first appeared on aud.life Can We Learn About Empathy From Torturing Robots? This MIT Researcher Is Giving It a Try Robotic Surgery Linked To 144 Deaths Since 2000 Personal Robots: Artificial Friends with Limited Benefits Infrastructure Cyborgs, Part One Using a Larger Drone To Rescue Another Smaller Drone...
You Must Struggle to Truly Remember This Past...
This post first appeared on aud.life You must struggle to truly remember this past in all its nuance, error, and humanity. You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. The enslaved were not bricks in your road,...
My Week in Review
Travel Casper, WY and Hermosa Beach, CA Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach, CA Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter How Teens Use Social Media Essays Elsewhere Misremembering Monsters on audreywatters.com The Web We Need to Give Students on medium.com/bright Speaking Nope Known Notes and Fragments The Week...
Misremembering Monsters
I recently asked The Internet to help me identify these woodcuts. My dad made them in his early twenties, when he was bedridden with a severely broken leg. My dad made these wood burnings in 1964. Anyone recognize who these are supposed to be? (Ok, Sherlock is obvious) pic.twitter.com/GksdGqbEUe— Audrey...
The Week in Robots
This post first appeared on aud.life Life is But a Drone Robot-staffed “Weird Hotel” in Japan unveiled today Robot Teacher Professional Development