Comment of the Day: Meno: Disruptive Technology and Educa...

Comment of the Day: Meno: Disruptive Technology and Education: "The main example of "disruptive" technology Rogoff gives in education is replacing live lectures with filmed ones. Quite obviously this is 1940s technology...

...Given that lectures weren't replaced by films in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980, 1990s, 2000s or 2010s, that suggests that the economic advantages to removing social contact with teachers from learning clearly aren't what Rogoff thinks they are...