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What past education technology failures can teach us about the future of AI in schools

  • Written by Justin Reich, Professor of Digital Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
imageTeachers need to be scientists themselves, experimenting and measuring the impact of powerful AI products on education. Hyoung Chang via Getty Images

American technologists have been telling educators to rapidly adopt their new inventions for over a century. In 1922, Thomas Edison declared that in the near future, all school textbooks would be...

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