Driverless Ed-Tech: The History of the Future of Automation in Education

Talk presented at The University of Edinburgh

Transcript

1. Driverless Ed-Tech: The History of the Future of Automation in Education Audrey Watters The University of Edinburgh — March 2017
2. massively open online futures
3. this is not a self-driving car
4. learning as an engineering problem
5. MOOCs and learners’ “driving” data
6. Engineered, not autonomous
7. What if I told you the technology actually sucks?
8. People who drive luxury cars replace workers with robots
9. Computers are cheaper for whom?
10. Precarious labor and “the sharing economy”
11. Robots “make great university professors” — R.U.R. (1920)
12. “Uber for Education”
13. “I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you” — Flannery O’Connor (1960)
14. Individualism and (American) car culture
15. The car as “personalization”
16. Other directions for this talk…
17. The driverless school
18. “Roaming autodidacts” — Tressie McMillan Cottom
19. “The Wal-Mart of higher education”
20. A century of teaching machines
21. Driverlessness — more algorithms, fewer roads, less freedom