The educational revolution will not be televised (or shown with a magic lantern): technology, design and instruction in the 20th century
"In 1913, Thomas Edison proclaimed: 'books will soon be obsolete in the schools...It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture. Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.'"
100 years later, as I read this line from Edison from an expensive textbook, how I wish that his proclamation had come true (even if I'm not exactly in the demographic he was thinking of). One of the things I was found most surprising in the readings for this week was was how sure some were that each technological advancement was going to be the future of education, that schools would transform into centers where students learned only by listening to radios or watching television.
I also found the section on the history of instructional design interesting. It would've been worthwhile to have read this as we originally learned about things like objectives and authentic assessments to get a better idea of where they came from.
Interesting comments about how the history of the field helped piece things together on the purposes of learning objectives and authentic assessments. Good post...:>)
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