Abstract
AbstractThis article explores the literature in the intersecting fields of media, technology and schooling in the United States across the past two centuries. It organizes the research from a social-historical perspective through a fic-tionalized interview with an archetypal third-generation urban public school teacher. This topography illustrates the problems and possibilities that emerge from the chronic push for technology in schools. Of particular men-tion are the privileging of orality and literacy through the common school reader, the mechanization of school-ing through teaching machines and television, and the transformative yet still untapped potential of computers and the internet.Keywords: Media Education, Media History, Education History, Technology, Media Literacy To more fully understand and appreciate the complexities and challenges of media literacy educa-tion in the digital age, this essay reflects on the his-torical intersection of media, technology, and school-ing in the United States. Although its history is well established as rife with tensions and contradictions,
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