Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning

摘要

Prior to the widespread exhaustion with online learning prompted by the pandemic, educational technology media coverage in the United States was a lesson in breathless excess. Blogs, trade journals, and national news platforms detailed how digital tools were "disrupting," "revolutionizing," and "transforming" American schools. Most of these articles lacked any historical context, or relegated it to illustrated sidebars featuring slates, film projectors, and other bygone classroom tools.