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For a couple of years now, as I have researched this book, I have written a series of stories that uncover some of the history – lost, forgotten, ignored, dismissed – about teaching machines. I'm procrastinating working on the book right now by refreshing the website. But here's a list of what I've done so far:
- Draw Me: A History of MOOCs
- Multiple Choice and Testing Machines: A History
- Speak & Spell: A History
- The First Teaching Machines
- The Automatic Teacher
- Education Technology and Skinner’s Box
- (25 Years Ago) The First School One-to-One Laptop Program
- The Horizon Report: A History of Ed-Tech Predictions
- The History of the Future of Education
- How Steve Jobs Brought the Apple II to the Classroom
- From Lunchboxes to Laptops: How Maine Went One-to-One
- A Brief History of Calculators in the Classroom
- SRA Cards: A History of Programmed Instruction and Personalization
- Gordon Pask’s Adaptive Teaching Machines
- Buckminster Fuller and Education's Automation
- Lego Mindstorms: A History of Educational Robots
- The History of the Future of the Push-Button School
- The Invented History of "The Factory Model of Education"
- Memory Machines: Education Technology Without the Memex
- The Golden Lasso of Education Technology
- The Flying Classroom: The Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction
- Webcasting Open Courses: A Brief (Berkeley) History
- What Happened to Educational Television: The Story of "The Learning Channel"
- Teaching by Television: Educational TV in American Samoa
- How Sputnik Launched Ed-Tech: The National Defense Education Act of 1958
- No, Sesame Street Was Not the First MOOC
- AlphaSmart: A History of One of Ed-Tech's Favorite (Drop-Kickable) Writing Tools
- Robot Tutors and the Algorithmic Future of Education
- Coding Bootcamps and the New For-Profit Higher Ed
- (Marketing) Virtual Reality in Education: A History
- Clippy and the History of the Future of Educational Chatbots
- Re·Con·Figures: The Pigeons of Ed-tech