Ebook: The Monsters of Education Technology

Monsters. Dragons. Beasts. Robots. Pigeons. We're doomed. A collection of talks and tales from education technology's "Cassandra," this book contains the lectures written and delivered by Audrey Watters over the course of 2014. They offer a glimpse into ed-tech's hidden histories, horrors, ideologies, and mythologies. What are the powerful stories we tell ourselves about ed-tech? What happens when the technologies that we build, purportedly to enhance teaching and learning become monstrous?;The history of the future of ed-tech -- Un-fathomable : the hidden history of ed-tech -- Teaching machines : a brief history of "teaching at scale" -- Against "innovation" -- Engaging flexible learning -- Robots and education labor -- Moving from "open" to justice -- Men explain technology to me : on gender, ed-tech, and the refusal to be silent -- Ed-tech's monsters -- The future of education : programmed or programmable -- Beyond the LMS -- The future of ed-tech is a reclamation iproject -- Beneath the cobblestones : a domain of one's own -- Convivial tools in an age of surveillance.