The Stories We Tell about Education Technology
Follow Audrey Watters read This post first appeared on Educating Modern Learners Do the stories that we tell about education technology demand we ask more questions? Do they prompt us to rethink what...
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Follow Audrey Watters read Education Politics Governor Jerry Brown signed a law that ends California’s personal exemption for vaccination for school children. Via Inside Higher Ed: “Education...
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Follow Audrey Watters read Education Politics The US House of Representatives voted to reauthorize/rewrite No Child Left Behind. Via Inside Higher Ed: “Oregon now is poised to follow Tennessee as the...
View ArticleHow Teens Use Social Media
Follow Audrey Watters read This article first appeared on Educating Modern Learners in April 2015 Earlier this year, an article “written by an actual teen” made the rounds on social media. The article...
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Follow Audrey Watters read Education Politics No Child Left Behind looks to be replaced by another set of meaningless words: “the Every Child Achieves Act,” which passed the Senate this week. The...
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Follow Audrey Watters read Education Politics Presidential candidate and clown Donald Trump “criticized the federal government for earning a profit on the federal student loan program,” Inside Higher...
View ArticleAlphaSmart: A History of One of Ed-Tech's Favorite (Drop-Kickable) Writing Tools
Follow Audrey Watters read There aren’t many ed-tech products that have developed a cult following, a phrase that appears at the foot of the Wikipedia entry for AlphaSmart, a “smart keyboard” first...
View ArticleRethinking 'What Counts'
Follow Audrey Watters read This article first appeared on Educating Modern Learners in April 2015 “Learning is not a counting noun,” says Dave Cormier, “so what should we count?” His question – a...
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Follow Audrey Watters read Education Politics The Obama administration will announce today that it will offer Pell Grants to some prisoners, “the first adult inmates to be eligible for the grants since...
View ArticleEd-Tech Funding: The Year (The Data) So Far
Follow Audrey Watters read Earlier this summer, the tech blog Techcrunch pronounced that “Investors Rethink EdTech As Dealflow Declines.” No one likes tech blog gaffes more than other tech blogs, so...
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Follow Audrey Watters read Education Politics The Republican Presidential candidates had their first debate this week, and education was actually a topic. “Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio get in a fight about...
View ArticleTeaching Machines and Turing Machines: The History of the Future of Labor and...
Follow Audrey Watters read This talk was delivered today at the Digital Pedagogy Lab Summer Institute at UW Madison Thank you very much for inviting me here today. Once upon a time, as a graduate...
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Follow Audrey Watters read Education Politics “Does Online Ed Lack ‘Integrity’?” asks Inside Higher Ed, responding to a line suggesting such in Hillary Clinton’s higher ed plan. Clinton also...
View ArticleTesting: Moving Beyond the Public Relations Battle
Follow Audrey Watters read This post first appeared on Educating Modern Learners in May 2015 The debate about standardized testing has hit the mainstream. Or at least, it hit HBO last weekend, when...
View ArticleAnd So, Without Ed-Tech Criticism…
Follow Audrey Watters read This talk was given today at Scratch AMS 2015 When I first started to think about what I wanted to say here today, I thought I’d talk about innovation and how confused if not...
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Follow Audrey Watters read Education Politics Presidential candidate and clown Donald Trump “criticized the federal government for earning a profit on the federal student loan program,” Inside Higher...
View ArticleAlphaSmart: A History of One of Ed-Tech's Favorite (Drop-Kickable) Writing Tools
Follow Audrey Watters read There aren’t many ed-tech products that have developed a cult following, a phrase that appears at the foot of the Wikipedia entry for AlphaSmart, a “smart keyboard” first...
View ArticleRethinking 'What Counts'
Follow Audrey Watters read This article first appeared on Educating Modern Learners in April 2015 “Learning is not a counting noun,” says Dave Cormier, “so what should we count?” His question – a...
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Follow Audrey Watters read Education Politics British Prime Minister David Cameron wants every school in England and Wales to become an academy (that is, a school independent of local control). Via...
View ArticleTrauma and Learning
Follow Audrey Watters read This article first appeared in Educating Modern Learners in June 2015 Recently, five students along with three teachers filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Compton...
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