I read Audrey Watters (http://audreywatters.com/ ) and … there’s this Federated Wiki thing that looked *really* awesome and cool and so I clicked on things saying I wanted to participate. I joined a google group and now I get all these neat emails from people introducing themselves… and asking questions about doing things in vocabulary I”m utterly clueless about, but we’re all suppsed to send our bios so things can get started.
So I attempted to email a bio with caveat that well, I wasn’t sure… except the email bounced.
Welp, if I can’t even do the right things to get on the list properly, it’s time to extricate myself from the group — that seems to be a recurring theme this winter. People trying to change the world, whether with bicycles or ed tech,I wish you well 😉
howardat58
February 16, 2015
This post led me on quite a chase. Audrey Watters to Hack Education to marketplace.org to Todd Farley’s devastating and hilarious expose of the testing industry, “Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry.””
I have now bought a secondhand copy. The sample I read was amazing. Everyone should read it.
Thanks !
xiousgeonz
February 16, 2015
Welcome! I agree; people should be aware of just what our standardized test industry is all about.