Audrey Watters

Travel Nope. Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach. Hack Education Writing Hack Education Weekly News  Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Editing Educating Modern Learners It’s Time to Lead, by Will Richardson Leadership Changes at LAUSD: What’s Next for Its iPad Initiative? by me How to Teach Computer Security Skills, by Jessy Irwin  What...

Travel Most of the week was spent in Hermosa Beach. Kin and I flew to Stockholm (directly flight from LAX – that was nice) on Friday night. Upcoming week: Stockholm, then back to Hermosa Beach. Hack Education Writing Hack Education Weekly News  Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Editing Educating Modern Learners...

Travel Nope. Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach, then Stockholm. Family and Friends EML co-founder Bruce Dixon stopped by briefly en route back to Australia and we went out for dinner. And our friend Mehdi Medjaoui came down from San Francisco with his girlfriend and spent the weekend with us. It’s a...

Travel Nope. Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach Hack Education Writing Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Ed-Tech Imperialism and the XPRIZE for Global Learning Editing Educating Modern Learners Questions over Answers, by Will Richardson  Transforming School Culture, by Will Richardson and Brett Jacobsen  Design Thinking for Innovation and Learning,...

Travel I took a quick trip up to Eugene, Oregon to see the kid (and to see my optometrist), but I was back in Hermosa in time to suffer through this week’s heat wave. Kin’s finally back home from his whirlwind travels too. Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach and Chicago Hack...

Travel and Speaking Kin and I (and my mum) have been in the UK all week. We’ve been to Midhurst, Bletchley Park, Coventry, York, Newcastle, Oxford, and back to Midhurst again – almost all places I’ve never visited before. (And it’s been almost 25 years since I was in Oxford.)...

Travel and Speaking I’m writing this from my aunt Carol’s kitchen in Midhurt, Sussex. Yup, the Fall travel and speaking schedule has kicked off. We spent most of the week in Hermosa Beach before catching a red-eye to Toronto then to London Friday night. We got in late last night...

Anthony Vanderford. March 9, 1971 - August 29, 2005 Nine years later. Here I am. I have survived; I survive "widowhood." I think I dread this day less and less each year. But I'm not certain now that I've typed that sentence. I don't know. Time heals, I suppose, but...

Travel and Speaking Nope. No travel, unless you count heading up to Manhattan Beach or down to Redondo Beach. And no speaking unless you count a webinar. Next week: Hermosa Beach, then the UK Hack Education Writing Hack Education Weekly News  Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Editing Educating Modern Learners Important...

I cracked open my copy of Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals this morning to reread “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” The essay contains one of the quotations for which Audre Lorde is best known: “Your silence will not protect you.” That sentence, even pulled out of context,...