Audrey Watters

Travel and Speaking Nope. Next week: Hermosa Beach Hack Education Writing Hack Education Weekly News  Hack Education Weekly Newsletter, No. 72  Most Anticipated Back-to-School Tech (Survey)  Intelligence and Influence: On Education Ranking Systems Editing Educating Modern Learners What We Mean When We Talk About “Scale," by Vanessa Gennarelli Can Science...

Travel and Speaking Nope. Kin is off today to Detroit for the API Craft conference, but I’m staying put in SoCal. Next week: Hermosa Beach Hack Education Writing Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter, No. 70  "Ed-Tech and the Templated Self: Thoughts from the “Reclaim Your Domain” Hackathon"...

(No) Travel Another week at home in Hermosa Beach. Damn, I love it here, even when the beach is full of partying volleyball players (See above). Next week: Hermosa Beach Hack Education Writing Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Editing Educating Modern Learners “How Schools Can Hack Their...

Travel & Speaking I spent a little over half the week in Hermosa Beach and the rest traveling to and from and briefly being in Atlanta for ISTE. Well, specifically I was there for EduBloggerCon (aka #HackEd14). It’s often described as the best part of the conference (thank you Steve...

Travel I didn’t leave Hermosa this week. But Kin did – he’s up in San Francisco, and I miss him fiercely. It’s rare that our schedules have us going in different directions, and I’m miserable when it does. Next week (for me): Bolton (just outside of Manchester, UK) Reading No...

Travel Kin and I flew home from Barcelona on Monday. And other than that, this week has been travel-free. We don’t have a car, so everywhere we went this week was within walking distance of home. Fortunately for us, that includes the beach and a great club, Saint Rocke. Next...

I’m stealing a page from my friend Doug Belshaw's playbook. He does a great job cataloging what he’s done and what he’s read and what he’s learned each week. To that end, he sends out a weekly newsletter (ed-tech folks should subscribe as Doug's work at Mozilla means there are...

And we're off. Next week begins the whirlwind of speaking and traveling for Kin and me. Here's a look at our calendar: January 24: Philadelphia "The Hype and Hope of MOOCs" - I'm speaking on a panel with Bryan Alexander, Anya Kamenetz, and Ray Schroeder. This event is part of...

I spent much of this, the first day of 2014, updating all my passwords. I should probably perform this task more than once a year, I realize. But I bet I still do this far more regularly than most other folks do. Even so, I’ve often still violated one of...

Last week, I made a couple of updates to Hack Education: I refreshed some of the content on the Hack Education Ed-Tech Guide. I added a section with some details, including a partial bibliography and a chapter outline, about my forthcoming book Teaching Machines. Both of these sections exist as...