American technologists have been telling educators to rapidly adopt their new inventions for over a century. In 1922, style=”font-family: var(–cs-font-headings-family), sans-serif; font-size: 1.875rem; font-weight: var(–cs-font-headings-weight); letter-spacing: var(–cs-font-headings-letter-spacing); text-transform: var(–cs-font-headings-text-transform); font-style: var(–cs-font-base-style);” href=”https://muninn.net/thoughts/edison-predictions/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Thomas Edison declared that in the near future, all school textbooks would be replaced by film strips, because text was 2% efficient, but film was 100% efficient. Those bogus statistics are a good reminder that people can be brilliant technologists, while also being inept education reformers.
I think of Edison whenever I hear technologists insisting that educators have to adopt artificial intelligence as rapidly as possible to…

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