Technology can assist learning, technology is net positive, and spreading technology can help build local power against impeding government and technocracy
Who is the educational technology community?
"If a student struggles to complete an assignment, our adaptive technology diagnoses and remediates that student’s knowledge gaps with personalized content and assessment that will help them achieve proficiency." (Knewton 2020) and "Another important advantage is that the student is free to move at his own pace." (Skinner 1954)
What is intertextuality?
A machine that auto-graded multiple-choice questions, becoming one of the first instances of creating a dialogical antagonist in education
What is the Pressey machine?
Technology should be used to promote economic efficiency in education and should be used to prepare a new labor force
Who is the education-industry complex?
"There must be an industrial revolution in education, in which educational science and the ingenuity of educational technology combine to modernize the grossly inefficient and clumsy procedures of conventional education. […] developing in her pupils fine enthusiasms, clear thinking, and high ideals."(Pressey, 1933, apud Watters, 2020)
What is dialogism?/What is creating a dialogical antagonist?
Platforms that deliver university courses on a free-at-the-point-of-contact basis to mass audiences, an example of de-schooling in the original framework
What is a MOOC?