Early Visions

These texts provide a sample of initial visions for the use of technology in teaching or distance learning. Questions about these developments are as old as the innovations themselves.

 

Bibliographical Information

Dewey, John - The Middle Years. Southern Illinois UP, 1982. (Distance Education and Technology, 147-48)

Dewey, John and Evelyn Dewey - Schools of Tomorrow. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1915.

Skinner, B.F. - Why We Need Teaching Machines- Harvard Educational Review, Fall, 1961.


Links

Bush, Vannevar - As We May Think -- http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm

Drucker, Peter, F., Beyond the Information Revolution -- http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99oct/9910drucker.htm

Ebersole, Samuel - Media Determinism in Cyberspace - Early Philosophers of Technology -- http://www.regent.edu/acad/schcom/rojc/mdic/early.html

Ebersole, Samuel - Media Determinism in Cyberspace - Man the Prosthetic god -- http://www.regent.edu/acad/schcom/rojc/mdic/man.html

Gernsback, Hugo, Forecast -- http://www.twd.net/ird/forecast/index.html

Greenberger, Martin - The Computers of Tomorrow -- http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/greenbf.htm

Kellner, Douglas - From 1984 to One-Dimensional Man: Critical Reflections on Orwell and Marcuse - Section I - Illuminations -- http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell13.htm

Kellner, Douglas - From 1984 to One-Dimensional Man: Critical Reflections on Orwell and Marcuse - Section II - Illuminations -- http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell13a.htm

Lasswitz, Kurd - The Distance Learning School, 1899 -- http://art-bin.com/art/ofernschule_e.html

Rayward, Boyd W., H.G. Wells Idea of a World Brain: A Critical Re-Assessment -- http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~wrayward/Wellss_Idea_of_World_Brain.htm




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