Audrey Watters

This post first appeared on aud.life "Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it…" -- George Bernard Shaw For what it's worth, I don't think I'm...

This post first appeared on aud.life (continued from this post) data and "redlining" -- has become "weblining" "American Express has reduced people's credit limits based on the types of stores they shop at" (111) "the panoptic sort: -- Oscar Grandy (111) "manipulation is made easier because of the centralized architecture...

Travel Hermosa Beach, CA and Eugene, OR (again). Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter, No. 113 Virtual Field Trips and Education (Technology) Inequalities What Happened to Educational Television: The Story of “The Learning Channel” Essays Elsewhere What Happened to Educational Television: The...

This post first appeared on aud.life "Surveillance is the business model of the Internet for two primary reasons: people like free, and people like convenient." (49) "the stalker economy" -- Al Gore "the inherently monopolistic nature of information middlemen" (57) "the relationship is more feudal than commercial" (58) "Taken as...

This post first appeared on aud.life Origami Robot Teen Bot Weaponized Electric Vehicle Robots Cheetah Robot Household Robots Cheetah Robot Google's "Automated Helpers Amazon Robots Lethal Killer Robot Military Drones Robots and Food Processing Deep Learning Robotics Robots "Walk Off Injuries" Robots Can Heal Themselves Robots Write Rap Robots Spying...

This post first appeared on aud.life I've been thinking a lot lately about this phrase "networked learning," about the hype over what the Internet affords us (in education, but more broadly in civil society), about the consolidation of power and platforms (the Facebook-ification and Googlization of the Internet), and what,...

In the future, humans will no longer work, pundits, investors, and tech entrepreneurs like to tell us, as they predict for us a world where more and more jobs will be taken over by algorithms and machines. “It may be hard to believe,” Wired’s Kevin Kelly wrote in 2012, “but...

Travel Hermosa Beach, CA and Eugene, OR. (Meanwhile, Kin was in Broomfield, CO.) Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach, CA and Eugene, OR. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter, No. 112 What Are Games and Simulations Good For? Webcasting Open Courses: A Brief (Berkeley) History Ed-Tech and the...

Travel Nope. I did book travel to Eugene OR (where I’ll be next week and again the week after) and to Madison WI (where I’ll be speaking in August). Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach and Eugene. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter, No. 111 The Flying Classroom:...

From Neil Selwyn's Distrusting Educational Technology: While some appetite was shown for oppositional thought during the 1980s and 1990s (see, for example, the writings of Michael Apple, CA Bowers, Hank Bromley, Larry Cuban, Ivor Goodson and Neil Postman), the vast majority of academic discussion of educational technology has tended to...