Audrey Watters

Travel Hermosa Beach, then Philadelphia. Upcoming week: Philadelphia, then Hermosa Beach. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Challenging MOOCs No, Sesame Street was not the First MOOC Essays Elsewhere Lady Pretty on audreywatters.com No, Sesame Street was not the First MOOC on educationfuturism.com Speaking Nope, although...

This post first appeared on aud.life Mother by Sense, A Sensor-Based Home Automation and Tracking System Queen Elizabeth Meets the Future Queen Who Is A Robot And Not A Human Can an Algorithm Hire Better Than a Human? Adding a cockroach shell improves microbot mobility Nano Satellites Work with Ground...

My granny passed away today, just a few days after her 98th birthday. The last few weeks were quite difficult – she had a heart attack, pneumonia, and a pulmonary edema; the last few years perhaps even more so, as she suffered at times from dementia. She was certain that,...

Travel Nope (other than a trip to Woodland Hills on Monday – the first time I’ve driven in/through Los Angeles). Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach and Philadelphia. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter How Sputnik Launched Ed-Tech: The National Defense Education Act of 1958 Parents as Modern...

This post first appeared on aud.life This Tech Giant Taught 3,000 Kids to Build Robots in a Year Automated Vehicles: One Eye on the Road, Another on You Hibernating robot wakes up on comet, sends message from space. We, Robots: Robots from the 1920s to the 1990s Clumsy Robot Slips...

Travel Hermosa Beach to Barcelona (via Oslo) and home again (via Montreal). Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Learning Networks, Not Teaching Machines “Ed-Tech”: (Not) An Etymology Essays Elsewhere This is Not the History of the Phrase “Education Technology” on educationfuturism.com Trauma...

This post first appeared on aud.life Deep Learning Machine Beats Humans in IQ Test Uh Oh – Robots Are Getting Good with Samurai Swords Robots to remain human slaves Sex Dolls That Talk Back Jordan is beautiful—especially from a drone-mounted action camera Prelude to a Robot Uprising A History of...

Travel Nope. (Kin was briefly in Utah.) Upcoming week: Barcelona. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Hack Education Turns 5 Schooling and Snow Days Teaching by Television in American Samoa: A History Essays Elsewhere Teaching by Television in American Samoa: A History on educationfuturism.com What Educators...

This post first appeared on aud.life Remote-Controlled Quadcopter Drone That Looks Like an Incom T–70 X-Wing Fighter From ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Why and How Baidu Cheated an Artificial Intelligence Test These are the robots competing to one day save your life Robots To Compete in NASA Challenge Chinese...

This post first appeared on aud.life Another fantasy of liberal education is that the student who advances to the university should take up the study that interests him most. For a small number of students this is in the main right. Even at a very early stage of school life,...