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Dan Rogers's avatar

I love this, Daisy. Another phrase that often bothers me is “it’s not going away” as a way of justifying the relatively early adoption of something which we might not know enough about yet or know how to effectively deploy. It seems to me that we are often in such a rush, and forget how long it has historically taken for some technologies to be even close to “perfected” that we end up blindly using and naturalising things that need more time and understanding.

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Jonathan Lloyd's avatar

Thanks for sharing Daisy and hope you’re well.

I have increasingly found myself referring back to the work and my conversation with Audrey Watters. Her study and book on the History of Teaching Machines is fascinating. History is littered with examples of educational technology and evidence of how individuals and organisations have tried to influence the classroom and learning.

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