Those bogus statistics are a good reminder that people can be brilliant technologists, while also being inept education reformers. I think of Edison whenever I hear technologists insisting that ...

The past couple of years have arguably been some of the most consequential in the history of educational technology. Schools went through a massive experiment in remote and hybrid learning, they ...

28th February 1957: Project leader on Electronic Reading Automaton George Norrie in front of the scanner of the Solartron Reading Machine. (Photo by Ron Burton/Keystone/Getty Images) It’s axiomic ...

Remember InBloom, the $100 million initiative, largely funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to aggregate student data and learning tools and allow teachers to individualize instruction? Or ...

The expansion of 1-to-1 computing, increasing use of learning management systems, the ubiquity of smartphones, and developments in artificial intelligence and virtual reality are all part of the new ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology (Princeton University Press) will ...

Education technology (or edtech) in K-12 education has become an integral part of modern learning environments, transforming how students engage with content, teachers, and each other. The integration ...

American technologists have been telling educators to rapidly adopt their new inventions for over a century. In 1922, Thomas Edison declared that in the near future, all school textbooks would be ...