Date: September 26, 2014 Time: 2 - 3 pm Eastern Presenters: Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey and others
Can you identify the redacted reference in the quotation excerpted below? The promising educational technology? The decade? The year of publication?
Plus ca change? Is it time to end the "long history of optimism" about computers in education? From 1960s CAI to MOOCs, Badges, & iPhones today.
"In <YEAR>, ...Stanford University <professor> was experimenting with the use of <TECHNOLOGY> to teach reading and writing to California schoolchildren. Despite...he saw almost limitless potential in the technology. 'One can predict that, in a few years, millions of schoolchildren will have access to what Philip of Macedon’s son Alexander enjoyed as a royal prerogative: the services of a tutor as well-informed and as responsive as Aristotle,'”
This session will explore the misguided? long history of optimism about the significance and permanence of new instructional technologies. More quotes to identify, if you can! See TLT-SWG blog.
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