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Education Systems and Technology in 1990, 2020, and Beyond

Author: Theodore W. Frick

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In Restructuring Education Through Technology, I incorporated systems thinking to identify seven types of relationships in educational systems: teacher-student, student-content, student-context, teacher-content, teacher-context, content-context, and education system-environment relationships (Frick 1991). I now revisit these education system relations and discuss potential futures of education. The World Wide Web did not exist when I wrote the original treatise, nor did wireless smartphones and tablets, Google’s search engine, YouTube, Facebook, or Wikipedia. However, one important education system relationship should not change: the affective bonding between teachers and their students.

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Title: Education Systems and Technology in 1990, 2020, and Beyond
Author: Theodore W. Frick
Publication date: 13-08-2020
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: TechTrends / Issue 5/2020
Print ISSN: 8756-3894
Electronic ISSN: 1559-7075
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-020-00527-y

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