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Classroom Machines: From Magic Lanterns to OLPCs

by Matthew Zuras on September 22, 2010 at 06:30 AM

The New York Times has a fun slideshow of educational tech spanning the past 140 years. (The only earlier entry was for a wooden paddle dated at 1650, but that seemed more punishing than edifying.) Recall those musty libraries with their filmstrip viewers, language lab headsets and Scantrons (recently reincarnated as New York voting machines) as you realize the iPad now falls into their lineage.

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