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The History of the Future of Education

The History of the Future of E-rate and Affordable Internet Access at Schools

While much of the speculation about the future of education technology under President Trump has been focused on the new Secretary of…

9 min readMar 8, 2017

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Data & Society: Points

Rationalizing Those “Irrational” Fears of inBloom

That inBloom might exist as a cautionary tale in the annals of ed-tech is rather remarkable, if for no other reason than ed-tech — at least…

6 min readFeb 16, 2017

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The History of the Future of Education

Re·Con·Figures: The Pigeons of Ed-tech

This talk was presented today at the Designs on eLearning conference. The full slide deck is available here.

24 min readSep 22, 2016

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Re·Con·Figures: The Pigeons of Ed-tech

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Enabling Connected Learning

Accountability: Calling Education to A Count

To be accountable is to be answerable; to be required to justify one’s actions; to be called to account. That reckoning could take the form…

4 min readSep 19, 2016

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The History of the Future of Education

Clippy and the History of the Future of Educational Chatbots

Earlier this year, Microsoft made headlines when it debuted Tay, a new chatbot modeled to speak like a teenage girl, which rather…

10 min readSep 14, 2016

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The Score

I’m not sure what I expected when I paid off my student loans. A nice note from the bank, I guess. A form letter from the Secretary of…

8 min readSep 4, 2016

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A Domain of One’s Own in a Post-Ownership Society

Maha Bali has written a blog post asking why we talk about “a domain of one’s own” and “reclaim your domain” since people never really own…

8 min readAug 23, 2016

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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change

This is the transcript of the talk I gave at the Digital Pedagogy Lab at the University of Prince Edward Island. You can find the slides…

23 min readJul 13, 2016

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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change

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The History of the Future of Education

(Marketing) Virtual Reality in Education: A History

Virtual reality is, once again, being heralded as a technology poised to transform education. I say “once again” because virtual reality…

9 min readJul 2, 2016

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

This keynote was delivered today at the Irish Learning Technology Association’s annual conference, EdTech2016, in Dublin. The full…

17 min readMay 26, 2016

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Audrey Watters

Audrey Watters

10.2K Followers

education writer, recovering academic, serial dropout, ed-tech’s Cassandra, author of The Monsters of Education Technology. (And coming soon: Teaching Machines)

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