Article ID: CBB586732074

Critical Failure: Computer-Aided Instruction and the Fantasy of Information (2018)

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The history of the use of various kinds of computers in education involves frequent triumphalist claims about the inevitable automation of instruction and equally frequent declarations of the failure of this project. This article situates both types of claims within a broader cultural understanding, one that holds that the human world is fundamentally informational and therefore amenable to improvement by computers.

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Authors & Contributors
Miller, Haynes R.
Willcox, Karen E.
Candace Robertson
Lachney, Michael
Huang, Luwen
Kirsch, Corinna J.
Journals
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
The Bridge: Journal of the National Academy of Engineering
Technology and Culture
Humanities and Technology Review
History of Education
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
The MIT Press
Madrid OEI, Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura
Primus Verlag
IEEE
Princeton University
Concepts
Educational technology
Education
Computers and computing
Information technology
Information science
Educational change
People
Negroponte, Nicholas
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Paraguay
Barcelona (Spain)
West Germany
Catalonia (Spain)
Japan
Institutions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
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