Audrey Watters

This post first appeared on aud.life Here's The New York Times' David Brooks in 2012: "The American education model... was actually copied from the 18th-century Prussian model designed to create docile subjects and factory workers." You'd think with all those educated 18th century factory workers, Prussia would have done better...

Travel Nope. Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach and Berlin. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter, No. 107 Data and Diplomas: On LinkedIn’s Acquisition of Lynda.com The History of the Future of the Push-Button School Essays Elsewhere Data and Diplomas: On LinkedIn’s Acquisition of Lynda.com on medium.com The...

This post first appeared on aud.life Rhizo#15 Week 1 response: There is no such thing as objectivity. What we know and say and see is always partial, situated. As a writer and researcher, I try to make well-reasoned claims, but they are never not subjective. I don’t always know where...

It must be said that the cybernetic approach to instruction and the interest in programmed instruction did not arise by chance in the Soviet Union. It was prepared for by the logic of developing several strictly psychological and pedagogical ideas and approaches which, with the appearance of cybernetics, were interpreted...

Little by little the subversive features of the computer were eroded away: Instead of cutting across and so challenging the very idea of subject boundaries, the computer now defined a new subject; instead of changing the emphasis from impersonal curriculum to excited live exploration by students, the computer was now...

Just as students of classical rhetoric were once instructed to emulate the specific features of famous speeches, sometimes by reproducing parts of the text piece by piece, Lynda.com students are expected to learn by duplicating, as they painstakingly reproduce a facsimile of the evolving work displayed by their instructors. --...

Earlier this week, 538’s Nate Silver took to Twitter to complain about the lack of attribution on rival site Vox for charts that he said were lifted from his publication. Yo, @voxdotcom: Y'all should probably stop stealing people's charts without proper attribution. You do this all the time, to 538...

Travel Nope. I did arrange accommodations in Berlin and Barcelona; and I realize I need to deal with ISTE planning too. Ugh. Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach. Hack Education Writing Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter, No. 106 Making Ed-Tech Predictions: The 2015 Edition Education in Science Fiction Ed-Tech’s...

This post first appeared on aud.life Whether or not it draws on new scientific research, technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science. It aims at prudent goods for the commonweal and to provide efficient means for these goods. At present, however, “scientific technology” occupies a bastard position...

Travel Nope. I did, however, make airline reservations for our upcoming trips to Berlin and Barcelona. Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach. Hack Education Writing Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Ed-Tech Startup Funding (Q1 2015) Buckminster Fuller and Education’s Automation Writing Elsewhere What You Should Know This Week on...