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Teaching Machines – The History of Personalized Learning
By Audrey Watters
“Education writer, independent scholar, serial dropout,
rabble-rouser, and ed-tech’s Cassandra”
In this must read-book, Audrey Watters challenges the “transformation” narrative
that often accompanies an emerging educational technology and, in doing so, challenges the “learnification” industry as a whole.
She debunks what she calls “the teleology of ed tech”, the idea that not only is computerized education inevitable, technological progress is the sole driver of events.
Full of excellent examples and case vignettes, including stories of failed adventures (including some from repeat offenders), Teaching Machines – The History of Personalized Learning offers a compelling narrative of caution and respect for the bigger purposes of education.
“Teaching Machines is a vital cultural history of our desire for a technical solution to the fundamentally social problem of how to make education work for all families. Watters has written the rare book that is necessary, important, and readable.” Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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