Classroom technology has advanced considerably since The Chronicle captioned a photograph by noting that on the Plato computer, “student in foreground is responding by typing on keyboard; computer can determine precisely where man in background is touching screen.” The article was about the commercialization of “computerized education,” in which “a single computer can give individualized instruction to as many as 500 students at once.” In other news, we reported on a study finding that “self-criticism is a predominant trait of many college faculty members.”
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