The Extra Mile
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The Algorithmic Order
The history of education technology is inseparable from the history of standardized testing. That’s part of the argument I make in Teaching Machines, where I trace the development of both the machinery of teaching and the machinery of testing back to the early twentieth century. There are more recent
Perceptual Engineering
Reflecting Pools
Just a short newsletter this week, full of links to others' writing – apologies. Ideologies: Fred Turner argues in The Baffler that the California Ideology, as articulated by Richard Barbrook and Andrew Cameron in their famous 1995 essay, is no longer central to Silicon Valley hegemony. Instead, Turner contends, it’
