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Engaging Flexible Learning
Audrey Watters
hackeducation.com
@audreywatters
April 2014
“I am a pessimist because of intelligence but an
optimist because of will” — Antonio Gramsci
Engaging Flexible Learning
Engaging Flexible Learning
“Rarely is the question asked: ‘Is our children
learning?’” — George W. Bush
“There is no such thing as educational value in
the abstract. The notion that some subjects and
methods and that acquaintance with certain
facts and truths possess educational value in and
of themselves is the reason why traditional
education reduced the material of education so
largely to a diet of predigested materials”
— John Dewey
Engaging Flexible Learning
Engaging Flexible Learning
"The name does not imply that such writing would
condemn computers any more than literary
criticism condemns literature or social criticism
condemns society. The purpose of computer
criticism is not to condemn but to understand, to
explicate, to place in perspective. Of course,
understanding does not exclude hard (perhaps
even captious) judgment. The result of
understanding may well be to debunk. But critical
judgment may also open our eyes to previously
unnoticed virtue.” — Seymour Papert
“For f**k’s sake, read Mindstorms” — Bret Victor
“Education is broken. Somebody should fix it.”
— pretty much every education startup founder
in Silicon Valley
"While undoubtedly of great potential benefit,
it is clear that educational technology is a
value-laden site of profound struggle that
some people benefit more from than others –
most notably in terms of power and profit.”
— Neil Selwyn
“We are losing the ability to talk about things
at the level of the collective”
— Evgeny Morozov
“A moral, not a technological solution”
— Edward Hewlett
Engaging Flexible Learning

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Engaging Flexible Learning #bcdl2014

  • 1. Engaging Flexible Learning Audrey Watters hackeducation.com @audreywatters April 2014
  • 2. “I am a pessimist because of intelligence but an optimist because of will” — Antonio Gramsci
  • 5. “Rarely is the question asked: ‘Is our children learning?’” — George W. Bush
  • 6. “There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials” — John Dewey
  • 9. "The name does not imply that such writing would condemn computers any more than literary criticism condemns literature or social criticism condemns society. The purpose of computer criticism is not to condemn but to understand, to explicate, to place in perspective. Of course, understanding does not exclude hard (perhaps even captious) judgment. The result of understanding may well be to debunk. But critical judgment may also open our eyes to previously unnoticed virtue.” — Seymour Papert
  • 10. “For f**k’s sake, read Mindstorms” — Bret Victor
  • 11. “Education is broken. Somebody should fix it.” — pretty much every education startup founder in Silicon Valley
  • 12. "While undoubtedly of great potential benefit, it is clear that educational technology is a value-laden site of profound struggle that some people benefit more from than others – most notably in terms of power and profit.” — Neil Selwyn
  • 13. “We are losing the ability to talk about things at the level of the collective” — Evgeny Morozov
  • 14. “A moral, not a technological solution” — Edward Hewlett