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Audrey Watters
September 14, 2017
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The History of the Future of Learning Objects
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September 14, 2017
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Transcript
The History of the Future of Learning Objects and Intelligent
Machines Audrey Watters @audreywatters MIT CMS — “Learning, Media, and Technology” — Fall 2017
Those who do not know history are doomed to launch
stupid startups — George Santayana, probably
Why I don’t care about “learning”
Technologies are ideological. They are “ideologically freighted” (Neil Selwyn)
Militarism and the history of computing
None
None
1989: Tim Berners-Lee lays out a proposal for "a large
hypertext database with typed links” 1992: W3C adopts the HTML standard 1993: The Web browser Mosaic is released 1995: WebCT founded 1997: Blackboard founded 1998: W3C adopts the XML standard 1999: D2L founded
There is no good image for this part of the
talk, so enjoy this photo of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster
Frankenstein — still relevant
How do we talk about the future of learning “skills?