![]() ![]() They were marketed to adults that wanted to learn some of the hot new 20th-century technology skills such as electronics. It may well be that workplace technology and school-oriented technology have much in commonĪnd teaching machines were also sold door-to-door by encyclopaedia salespeople and advertised in the back of magazines like Popular Science. The British cybernetician Gordon Pask designed a teaching machine that would train workers how to use Hollerith machine punch – that is, to make punch cards used for data processing. Hughes Aircraft, for example, used them to train employees to build planes. ![]() These were supposed to transform schools. I have just finished the manuscript of my book on teaching machines – mechanical devices that were developed in the mid-20th century that promised to automate and individualise education. ![]() What lessons should workplace learning take from Ed-tech?Įducation technology has long been concerned with workplace learning. OEB started as predominantly an ed-tech conference but has broadened its appeal over the last few years to include workplace learning. That includes science fiction – think of Neo in The Matrix being so amazed that he's learned kung fu – but it also includes historical shorthand phrases like 'the factory model of education' that aren't particularly accurate but that seem to be terribly compelling. I'm particularly interested in what I'll call 'the ed-tech imaginary' – that is, how we base a lot of our decisions and opinions of technology based on fictions. But I have been thinking of the stories we tell about the history and the future of education and education technology. The conference is weeks away! I don't know yet exactly what I'm going to talk about. ![]()
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