Category Archives: educationtechnology

New Book – Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning

Posted on February 25, 2021 by geoffcain

Audrey Watters has written a new book about the history of education technology: Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning. When I get a hold of a copy, I will write something up here and link to other reviews. A … Continue reading →

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Edu Tech Time Machine

Posted on January 16, 2016 by geoffcain

This should be filed under “the-more-things-change-the-more-they-remain-the-same” if I had such a file. I was waiting in the library for a faculty member to return from a meeting the other day and I took off the shelf the Jan. 1960 copy … Continue reading →

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PowerPoint as an Interactive Teaching Tool

Posted on October 19, 2012 by geoffcain

PowerPoint is on every computer in this college and every college I have worked with. Students, faculty, and staff use and abuse it every day. Those of you who know me know that I am not particularly an advocate of … Continue reading →

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New Education Technology Changes Everything

Posted on April 9, 2011 by geoffcain

I am reading a book on a “new” educational technology. Everything in the book is hauntingly familiar. We have heard these warnings about technology and education before. Its “…importance as an instrument of instruction in the common school, has been … Continue reading →

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