Arnold Kling earned his Ph.D. in Economics at MIT and had a career as a professional economist. After starting a successful internet business in the 1990s, he began teaching high school statistics and economics. He relies on this unique background to offer interesting opinions about some new education technologies.
Kling believes that adaptive textbooks will become important learning tools for students. Kling describes an adaptive textbook as an "electronic textbook that adjusts to the cognitive ability and learning style of the student. Adaptive textbooks will query students in order to make sure that they understand what they have been studying. They will also respond to student queries."
No one knows for sure when--or even if--various technologies will "disrupt" how we teach students at the K-12 or college levels. That said, in the coming decades educators surely will have to consider these technologies to see if they can be harnessed to improve the educational opportunities offered to all or certain subsets of students.
Kling's opinion piece can be found at the link below: