Audrey Watters is an outstanding voice in the field of education technology. She inspires 'level three' thinking of global education policy, commercial ed-tech industry, and higher ed. Her twitter precipitates up-to-date reactions to the ed-tech conversation with foresight unmatched by other journalists;
in other words, she is right, first, always.
Maybe I exaggerate above, but Audrey writes with a fresh approach, tackling ideas that I didn't see Harvard professors touching with a pinkey toe. Critically, she is snarky and bold. A gift, she discloses, from being unadulterated by "the machine" of academia.
Today, we hear a lot about the "factory model of education." The story goes that around the turn of the century the United States 'decided' to make compulsory education an institution which would placate the general populace and track the majority into factories. Systematically modeling schools on factory existence in order to create a proletariat? Sounds like Marxist paranoia doesn't it? Almost every academic and policy maker in education today will sum up the last 100 years of American education this way, Audrey Watters gives us the real story in this refreshing and well researched account. According to medium.com this article will take about 14min to read. Enjoy the link below!