Getting Smart Podcast Unfulfilled Promise: The Forty-Year Shift from Print to Digital and Why It Failed to Transform Learning
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Feb 9, 2024 This podcast explores the unfulfilled promise of the shift from print to digital in education and its challenges. It discusses the four phases of the shift, including the rise of blended learning and remote learning. It also highlights the new era of human-computer interaction with generative AI in education. The podcast examines the reasons why edtech has not successfully transformed learning and suggests recommendations for student-centered models.
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Print To Digital Was A Major Shift
- Tom Vander Ark observes the shift from print to digital was the biggest learning change since the printing press and moved us from scarcity to abundance.
- He warns that abundance changed searching to sorting and did not always improve learning quality.
Early EdTech Milestones
- Tom recalls early milestones: Apple II, Oregon Trail, Windows, and the web becoming mainstream in the 1990s.
- He shares starting the Internet Academy and early one-to-one programs as formative EdTech experiences.
Blended Learning And Access Lowered Barriers
- The 2005–2015 decade brought blended learning, YouTube as a dominant learning platform, and affordable Chromebooks that enabled one-to-one access.
- These changes lowered price barriers but did not guarantee improved measured achievement.