Category: Education
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When I tried to clean my dirty aquarium all at once to make it a perfect environment, I killed all my fish. Reflections on Failure to Disrupt by Justin Reich.
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I really enjoyed reading this book. I found the writing style approachable, even for an academic topic. It gave me a lot of insights into educational technology that I had never even previously considered. The most important question is whether any of these technologies were truly expected to disrupt the…
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A Really Exhilarating, Super Hyped, and Glorious Summary: Failure to Disrupt, Chapters 1 – 4
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I have really enjoyed reading Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education by Justin Reich. The first four chapters have covered educational technologies that were supposed to rewrite or “disrupt” the standard model of face-to-face teacher-led classroom instruction: Massive Open Online Courses, Adaptive Tutors and Computer-Assisted Instruction, Peer-Guided…
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Writing Implements, Inks, and Surfaces as Educational Technologies
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When most modern people hear the words “Educational Technology,” they think of computers, laptops, tablets, and now generative artificial intelligence. But one of the most important technologies that has advanced civilization was the development and refinement of writing tools, inks, and writing surfaces (or substrates). The development of written language…
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The Significance of Distance Learning in Iranian Women’s Higher Education Post 1979 Islamic Revolution
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Early Foundations: Reza Shah and the First Pahlavi Period (1925–1941) Formal education for women in Iran began in 1907 with the establishment of the first primary school for girls. Progress accelerated under the first Pahlavi Shah. In the era from 1925 to the 1940s, women were not required to veil…
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Anna Eliot Ticknor (1823–1896)
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History Anna Eliot Ticknor (1823 – 1896) was an early pioneer in distance learning and a champion of women’s education across all classes. Anna’s father was a Harvard professor of modern languages and the founder of the Boston Public Library. With her mother being a writer and her cousin Samuel…