The Monsters of Education Technology Quotes

“The personal computer isn't "personal" because it's small and portable and yours to own. It's "personal" because you pour yourself into it - your thoughts, your programming.”
― Audrey Watters, The Monsters of Education Technology

“There’s a problem with the Internet. Largely designed by men from the developed world, it is built for men of the developed world. Men of science. Men of industry. Military men. Venture capitalists. Despite all the hype and hope about revolution and access and opportunity that these new technologies will provide us, they do not negate hierarchy, history, privilege, power. They reflect those. They channel them. They concentrate them, in new ways and in old.”
― Audrey Watters, The Monsters of Education Technology

“one of Papert’s best-known lines in his manifesto: “should the computer program the kid or should the kid program the computer?”
― Audrey Watters, The Monsters of Education Technology

“That’s why it doesn’t matter to proponents of the “disruptive innovation” framework that Khan Academy or MOOCs suck, for example.”
― Audrey Watters, The Monsters of Education Technology