Audrey Watters

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...

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...