Category: Learning Technologies

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…

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…