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The Histories of Education Technology

A Hack Education Project

Books about the History of Education Technology


  • Raymond Callahan, Education and the Cult of Efficiency: A Study of the Social Forces That Have Shaped the Administration of the Public Schools (1962)
  • Larry Cuban, Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology Since 1920 (1986)
  • Brian Dear, The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture (2017)
  • Bill Ferster, Teaching Machines (2014)
  • Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, The Race Between Education and Technology (2008)
  • Norm Friesen, The Textbook and the Lecture (2017)
  • Bob Johnstone, Never Mind the Laptops: Kids, Computers, and the Transformation of Learning (2003)
  • A. A. Lumsdaine and Robert Glaser (Eds.), Teaching Machines and Programmed Learning: A Source Book (1960)
  • David Noble, Digital Diploma Mills (2001)
  • Wilbur Schramm, Bold Experiment: The Story of Educational Television in American Samoa (1981)
  • Paul Saettler, The Evolution of American Educational Technology (1990)
  • ---, A History of Instructional Technology (1967)