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Audrey Watters Warns About Surveillance in Online Learning
Monday, July 20, 2020, at 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (ET)
Join Audrey Watters, a self-described “education writer, independent scholar, serial dropout, rabble-rouser, and ed-tech ‘Cassandra’”, as she examines the real threat of fast spreading surveillance in post-secondary education.
- How we often overlook surveillance, one of the most pervasive trends in education technology over the last few decades and rarely featured in lists of “what’s new” and “what’s hot”.
- How by embracing surveillance as a core tenet of education technology, we are sacrificing students’ privacy and their safety.
- How too often in education and ed-tech, we confuse surveillance for care. We need to watch students closely, we tell ourselves, because we want them to be safe and to do well.
- How caring means trusting, and trusting means being able to turn off a controlling gaze.
- How we can imagine (and build) a different set of ed-tech practices, one founded on trust rather than suspicion, on care rather than on control.
Dr. Paul Prinsloo, Research Professor in Open and Distance Learning (ODL), University of South Africa (UNISA) and Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord, is the host of this free webinar by Audrey Watters.
Register for Building Anti-Surveillance Ed-Tech!
Audrey Watters is a journalist specializing in education technology news and analysis.
She has written for Edutopia, MindShift, O’Reilly Radar, ReadWriteWeb, and The Huffington Post, in addition to her own blog, Hack Education.
Audrey Watters is author of The Monsters of Education Technology, The Revenge of the Monsters of Education Technology, The Curse of the Monsters of Education Technology, as well as a book arguing that students should control their digital identities and digital work, Claim Your Domain.
Her next book, Teaching Machines, is being published by MIT Press.
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