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  • Failure to Disrupt

  • Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education
  • By: Justin Reich
  • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
  • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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Failure to Disrupt

By: Justin Reich
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
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Proponents of large-scale learning have boldly promised that technology can disrupt traditional approaches to schooling, radically accelerating learning and democratizing education. Much publicized experiments, often underwritten by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, have been launched at elite universities and in elementary schools in the poorest neighborhoods. Such was the excitement that, in 2012, The New York Times declared the "year of the MOOC". Less than a decade later, that pronouncement seems premature.

In Failure to Disrupt, Justin Reich delivers a sobering report card on the latest supposedly transformative educational technologies. Reich takes listeners on a tour of MOOCs, autograders, computerized "intelligent tutors", and other educational technologies whose problems and paradoxes have bedeviled educators. Learning technologies often provide the greatest benefit to affluent students and do little to combat growing inequality in education. And institutions and investors often favor programs that scale up quickly, but at the expense of true innovation.

Technology does have a crucial role to play in the future of education, Reich concludes. We still need new teaching tools, and classroom experimentation should be encouraged. But successful reform efforts will focus on incremental improvements, not the next killer app.

©2020 Justin Reich (P)2021 Tantor
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Clear and skeptical yet optimistic

The best book on ed tech I've read. Comprehensive and understandable. Strongly recommended to anyone interested in educational technology

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