Audrey Watters

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...

This post first appeared on aud.life "To a student of educational radio, prowling through yellowed scripts, it seems almost incredible that teachers who presumably hoped to reach men’s minds elected to attempt it with anesthetics. Surely, secrets of audience psychology readily mastered by semi-literate movie stars and dance-band leaders are...

This post first appeared on aud.life Week 3 of #rhizo15: The Myth of Content Content: it’s what fills a container, whether that be a book, a film, a student’s head. Content: it’s what is contained. Word origins: Content: it’s what is delivered – by a book, an instructor, a video,...

I’d been meaning to sign up for Known since I first learned about it last year. And that means – I confess – I endorsed it as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Startups of 2014” before I’d really used it much. But since the startup launched its hosted “pro” version,...

Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, "memex" will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized...

This post first appeared on aud.life The analogy of the technical "evolution" can only go so far, however. Technological systems are not like biological systems in a number of important ways -- most obviously the fact that they are the products of conscious design. Unlike biological organisms, technical artefacts are...