Criticism of a militaristic or mechanistic approach to teaching
Never underestimate the difficulty of educating individual learners effectively.
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Efficiency in education should not be the goal
Is an efficient education a good education?
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Hyping revolutionary edtech
Being vigilant when listening to claims about new pedagogical technology.
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Teaching as crude handicraft
Reflecting on what it takes for teaching machines to be really useful.
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Digital learning placed within a total system of instruction
Seeing a good result from using teaching technology has been a challenge since at least the 1930s.
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Personalized learning in the 1920s?
This first reflection on “Teaching Machines” highlights my surprise at the long history of personalized learning.
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A filmed play is not a movie
With new technologies should come new approaches to teaching. Haven’t we seen this before?
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