Category: History

A bestiary of digital monsters

· Codice Crepitus: “On the one hand, we see a wish to become less dependent on external actors – to build the capacity to ‘take home’ critical systems….

Unreliability of autoinstructional aids

The introduction of computers, systems analysis, and various new media into education has been heralded as a panecea for for all the problems now facing our schools. The…

Technology’s origins

Skinner is such a fascinating person … a fascinating/terrifying person.  I’ve spent the last couple of years spending way too much time thinking about behaviourism and thinking about Skinner’s…

Computing the nordic way

The societal desire for a computerised future intensified after the Second World War (and has effectively not diminished since). This desire, and the related imaginary, is often based…

Scottish reformation

In this paper we want to show how today’s trust or faith in statistical data acting as guiding instances of policy and (re-)ordering society – which thereby obviously…

Unesco and new techniques in education

The present crisis in education shows that attempts to meet the demand by linear expansion are financially illusory and pedagogically outdated. In the years to come the human…

20 years of EdTech

…edtech has frequently failed to address the social impact of advocating for or implementing a technology beyond the higher education sector. MOOCs, learning analytics, AI, social media—the widespread…