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<p>I am an education writer, an independent scholar, a serial dropout, a rabble-rouser, and ed-tech's Cassandra.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/audreywatters/audrey_tattooww.jpg" height="427" width="640" alt="" /></p>
<p>“It’s a long story,” I often say. You can catch snippets of it, if you pay attention. I’ve got a <a href="http://audreywatters.com/cv/cv.html">CV</a> if you care about such formalities.</p>
<p>I’m a lit geek and a beer snob (now in sobriety). I love tattoos and, some days, I like technology. I loathe mushy foods and romantic comedies. I’m not ashamed to admit I like ABBA and dislike Tolkien. I am somewhat ashamed to admit I’ve not finished <em>Ulysses</em>, and I've never even started <em>Infinite Jest</em>. I prefer cake to pie, unless we're talking pastry projectiles. I pick fights on the Internet. I’m a high school dropout and a PhD dropout. I have a Master's degree in Folklore and was once considered the academic expert on political pie-throwing. I was (I am?) a widow. I'm a mom. I have a cold hard stare that I like to imagine is much like Paddington Bear’s and a smirk much like the Cheshire Cat’s. I'm not afraid.</p>
<p>I travel as much as I possibly can. “Home,” at least according to my driver’s license, is Hermosa Beach, California.</p>
<p>Way back in junior high, I took an aptitude test that gave me a single career option: freelance writer</a>. I remember feeling rather panicky at the time, wondering how the hell I’d manage to pull it off. But now I do.</p>
<p>My essays have appeared in multiple places, but mostly I write on my blog <a href="http://hackeducation.com">Hack Education</a>. I've published two collections of my public talks, <em><a href="http://monsters.hackeducation.com">The Monsters of Education Technology</a></em> and <em><a href="http://monsters2.hackeducation.com">The Revenge of the Monsters of Education Technology</a></em>, as well as a book arguing that students should control their digital identities and digital work, <em><a href="http://reclaim.hackeducation.com">Claim Your Domain</a></em>. I'm in the middle of writing my next book, <em><a href="http://teachingmachin.es">Teaching Machines</a></em>.</p>
<p>In my spare time, I read, rabble-rouse, and prepare for the zombie apocalypse. Because you never know...</p>
<h3>About Hack Education</h3>
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<p><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/audreywatters/typewriter640.png"></p>
<p>I created <a href="http://hackeducation.com">Hack Education</a> in June 2010 shortly after I became a technology journalist. I was frustrated by the lack of coverage of education technology -- by both technology and education publications. I did my day job (that is, the freelance writing I got paid for) but devoted as much attention as possible to Hack Education, trying to create the sort of publication that I'd want to read: one that's smart and snarky, one that's free of advertising and investor influence (See: <a href="http://www.audreywatters.com/disclosures/">Disclosures</a>), one that's tracking new technologies but not just because of some hyperbolic "revolution."</p>
<p>To “hack” can mean a lot of things: To break in and break down. To cut to the core. To chop roughly. To be playful and clever. To be mediocre. To solve a problem, but to do so rather inelegantly. To pull systems apart. To "MacGyver" things back together. To re-code. To rebuild. To “Hack Education,” in turn, can have multiple interpretations, I recognize: a technological solution, a technology intrusion, a technological possibility, a technological disaster. Ed-tech is all those things.</p>
<p>To "hack education" isn't something that just technologists should do or care about. Nor is this just a concern for teachers, administrators, parents, or students. We all should consider the implications of technology on how we teach and learn, lest the future of ed-tech be just like the history of ed-tech: learners as <a href="http://hackeducation.com/2014/12/25/pigeons">pigeons</a>.</p>
<p><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/audreywatters/office_of_hack_education.png"></p>
<h3>Elsewhere on the Internet</h3>
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<p><i class="fa fa-globe"></i> <a href="http://audreywatters.com/blog">personal blog</a>, <a href="http://hackeducation.com">hack education</a>, <a href="http://techgypsi.es">techgypsies</a>, <a href="http://educationfuturism.com">education futurism</a>, <a href="http://fragments.audreywatters.com">the reclamation project</a>, <a href="http://notes.audreywatters.com">notes on the history of the future</a></p>
<p><i class="fa fa-newspaper-o"></i> <a href="http://tinyletter.com/audreywatters">newsletter</a></p>
<p><i class="fa fa-microphone"></i> <a href="http://podcast.techgypsi.es">podcast</a></p>
<p><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i> <a href="https://twitter.com/audreywatters">@audreywatters</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hackeducation">@hackeducation</a>, botted <a href="https://twitter.com/audrey_ebooks">@audrey_ebooks</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/pigeonclick">@pigeonclick</a></p>
<p><i class="fa fa-facebook"></i> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/audreywatters">personal</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Audrey-Watters-100999103321790">page</a>, hack education's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/history.future.education/">page</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: right; font-size:12px"><em>Image credits: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/25826877221">Alan Levine</a>, <a href="http://bryanmmathers.com/">Bryan Mathers</a>; Updated May 2016</em></p>