Audrey Watters

This post first appeared on aud.life While it hasn’t risen to quite the furor of the recent round-and-round from Siemens and Downes, I’ve been watching Weller and Moe’s discussions on the Eddie Murphy analogy with a certain amount of bemused interest. I can’t help but read the exchange as a...

This post first appeared on aud.life Here's Dave Cormier's prompt for #rhizo15, week 5: Rhizomatic plants are chaotic, aggressive and resilient. It models some of the qualities that can make a good learner. The rhizome, however, can also be an invasive species. It can choke other plants out of your...

This post first appeared on aud.life This is the reading list for an edX MOOC I've signed up for, “PopX1.1: Rise of the Superheroes.” It’s not a required reading list, but it sets an interesting tone, I think, for what the instructor/the course values (in terms of superheroes, writers, illustrators)....

This post first appeared on aud.life Project idea: I’m going to make an ed-tech disclosure bot. I’m tired of seeing so little disclosure in education technology of financial relationships – by publications, investors, and educators alike. I’d like the bot to retweet tweets where there is a lack of disclosure...

Travel I left Barcelona on Tuesday and then, via Stockholm, flew back to LAX. I was Hermosa Beach on Wednesday, then flew to Davidson NC, via CLT, on Thursday. Both Kin and I got back to Hermosa Beach on Saturday. Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News...

This post first appeared on aud.life Dave’s #rhizo15 prompt this week asks us what happens if we get rid of Dave… Or “Dave,” I should say. That is, what happens in a classroom (or learning experience) without an instructor? He asks, what is the role of the facilitator/teacher/professor where we...

Penned today on an 11 hour flight transatlantic flight People who struggle with the concept of disembarking. People who struggle with the concept of boarding. People who have never heard of rules pertaining to carry-on items. People who recline their seats. People who kick. People who do not understand that...

Travel This week: Barcelona. Heads up: I’m committed to moving here ASAP. Kin and I had the best meal Friday night at Pla: I ate cod confit and a desert that involved both wasabi and chocolate. One of the other highlights: seeing Barça defeat Getafe. We had great seats and...

This post first appeared on aud.life From the Amazon Archives: I'm working on a talk I'll give next week at Davidson College, in which I use Wonder Woman to highlight the "golden lasso" that ed-tech has us in -- this subtext of domination, compliance, and submission that run through ed-tech...

Electrical Research Products, Inc (ERPI) was a subsidiary of the Western Electric Company (which was the manufacturing division of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company -- that is, AT&T). Founded in the late 1920s, the organization believed that non-theatrical films could be a huge market, so it developed equipment along...