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Audrey Watters joins me for episode 18 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast to talk about how technology is changing higher education.

Podcast notes
Audrey Watters on Twitter
The mythology
- Science and technology obsession
- We tend to not look at the past very well, in considering EdTech
- Predates computers
- Patents in late 1800s building devices that would teach people
- Teachers would be freed from lecturing and could be freed up to mentor and support students
- Educational psychology
- BF Skinner perhaps best known inventor of teaching machines
The programable web
Different model. Comes from the web.
Rather than being just the recipients of knowledge, [students] now can be active contributors… building and sharing their own knowledge in a meaningful way. – Audrey Watters
Constructing knowledge and sharing it with a network
Reevaluating what we expect students to know and do
How do we assimilate, how do we process, how do we share knowledge?
Easier to participate as an academic in these new networks
Privacy implications
I know you you are and I saw what you did by Lori Andrews
These digital tools demand our attention in a different way. – Audrey Watters
There is a level of vulnerability that learning always involves, but it does take on a different level when we do it in public. – Audrey Watters
The downside of having all student work live within the LMS
Distractions abound
Digital literacy
Where to get started
Privacy and politics
- More than cheerleading
- Data and privacy
- The women and people of color gap in the EdTech universe
Recommendations
Bonni recommends Aziz Ansari defines feminism on letterman
Audrey recommends Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas by Seymour A. Papert
Ending credits
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