Ed-Tech Agitprop
Audrey Watters,
Hack Education,
Nov 30, 2019
Donald Clark said of this talk, "Audrey's was so keen to show that everyone else was ideological that she missed the fact that hers was the most ideological talk of the three. But oh how academe clapped." I think that's a bit harsh. But at the same time I can find a reference to a "3D printed cat" anywhere online, let alone with reference to the OEB MidSummit in Reykjavik or the speakers with whom she shared the stage (Nell Watson and Tony O'Driscoll). So there's that. Her main point is to challenge the reskilling narrative. "Is technology changing faster than it's ever changed before? It might feel like it is. Futurists might tell you it is. But many historians would disagree." But she's wrong about that. The historians are wrong about that. That's not to say her overall point is wrong. But I think it needs to be made more precisely, with better evidence.
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