(Promotion of upcoming event for the #Online Education Dialogue# series)
Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education
Organizer by the Office of Lifelong Education Administration, Tsinghua University
- US Eastern time: October 22, 2020, 9am
- Beijing time: October 22, 2020, 9pm
Summary: In the 2000s and 2010s, education technology evangelists promised that new learning media would transform schooling and education. Then, a pandemic shut down schools all over the world, and online learning faced a pivotal moment, and left a global public mostly disappointed. Instead of adaptive tutors, artificial intelligence, MOOCs or other new technologies, most learners got digital worksheets on learning management systems and ZOOM lecturers. Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education explores the recent history of large scale learning technologies to explain why technology provides such uneven support to learners—useful in some contexts but not others, to some people but not others. The book concludes by examining four as-yet intractable dilemmas that researchers and designers can use to identify and overcome persistent challenges in using technology to accelerate human learning.
Speakers
Justin Reich
Justin Reich is a learning scientist interested in learning at scale, practice-based teacher education, and the future of learning in a networked world. He is an Assistant Professor in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab. The Teaching Systems Lab designs, implements, and researches the future of teacher learning. He is the author of Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can't Transform Education, from Harvard University Press. He is the instructor for six free, openly-licensed MOOCs about change leadership in education. He is also the host of the TeachLab Podcast.
Xiaoxiao Wang
Associate Dean, Office of Lifelong Education Administration, Tsinghua University; and Associate Dean, Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Tsinghua University.
Enoch Wong
Senior Development Manager, Office of Lifelong Education Administration, Tsinghua University
