Forbes – Helen Lee Bouygues
“Innovations in educational technology have often sparked dramatic pronouncements, to be sure. Socrates famously observed that writing tools would impair people’s ability to remember. The blackboard was championed by advocates in the mid-1800s as a powerful classroom-changing tool since it could be used to present something to all students at once. At least in principle, today’s educational technologies are different and in many ways, they do offer unprecedented learning experiences. Virtual reality can place students in completely immersive environments, letting them experience the effects of ocean acidification or a different planet’s gravity. Adaptive learning systems model the student knowledge and attempt to provide students with new problems at just the right level of challenge.” (more)