A pretty great mix of sharply prescient and horribly wrong.
Maybe a few straw men mixed in too, because I don't think there were many serious claims that computers would replace teachers. Computers and software were seen as supplementary.
Maybe a few straw men mixed in too, because I don't think there were many serious claims that computers would replace teachers. Computers and software were seen as supplementary.
We saw teachers as the co-primary users of the software. The other users were the kids, of course. So there was a lot of consideration, e.g., to how teachers would use the software, what they needed it to do, etc. Actually, the product leads were typically former teachers.
It wasn’t just us either. It wasn’t a thing at the conferences I went to either. I think it would have come across as a silly/unserious idea.
You could really only entertain it if you had no idea what teachers actually do.