Machines and Humans

‘Never Send a Human to Do a Machine’s Job:’ Five Big Mistakes in Education Technology and How to Fix Them

Valerie Strauss | October 6, 2015

“Cyclic amnesia best characterizes the history of technology in education.” That is part of the following post about the mistakes in educational technology that keep being made decade after decade — and about how to fix them.  This is adapted from the introduction of a new book titled “Never Send a Human to do a Machine’s Job: Correcting the Top 5 Edtech Mistakes,” by Yong Zhao, Gaoming Zhang, Jing Lei and Wei Qiu.

Source: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/download/9815021e.pdf?expires=1444753033&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=98FFC8925D0F7304A6142766A368B439

<more at https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/10/06/never-send-a-human-to-do-a-machines-job-five-big-mistakes-in-education-technology-and-how-to-fix-them/; related links: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/students-computers-and-learning_9789264239555-en;jsessionid=swpiuw6z1bd8.x-oecd-live-03 (Students, Computers and Learning. Making the Connection. September 12, 2015) and http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/download/9815021e.pdf?expires=1444753033&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=98FFC8925D0F7304A6142766A368B439 (Students, Computers and Learning. Making the Connection. 2015.)>