Audrey Watters

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...

This post first appeared on aud.life I’ve closed my Facebook account. I’ve closed my LinkedIn account. I no longer cross-post to Google+ (Thanks, Google, for making that account intertwined with a Gmail account, required for usage of Google Hangouts, and as such un-deletable). I’ve never used Pinterest. I look at...

This post first appeared on aud.life A blurb from my application: How does your idea relate to "openness" All of my work is openly licensed (CC-BY). It's all posted on GitHub. These are easy and obvious steps towards openness. As an independent scholar, I am constantly confronted with paywalls for...

Travel Nope. Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach. Hack Education Writing Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Techno Fantasies Gordon Pask’s Adaptive Teaching Machines Writing Elsewhere Techno Fantasies with Sara Goldrick-Rab on insidehighered.com Gordon Pask’s Adaptive Teaching Machines on medium.com What You Should Know This Week on modernlearners.com Ten on...

This post first appeared on aud.life A response to this post by Joshua Kim: The sentence that you pull here – your gotcha – contains an error that I do regret. But it’s an error introduced from collaborative editing; not an error in our criticism. My point as that The End...

I started blogging 10 years ago today. My students had long told that I should start one. “You’d love LiveJournal,” they insisted. But I was busy teaching and writing my dissertation, and I couldn’t imagine that I’d have time – or that a blog would be all that interesting. Then...