This document discusses John Dewey's University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and how its pedagogy and philosophy can inform modern education technology. It provides context on Dewey founding the Lab School in 1896 in response to the popular American education system of the 1830s. The document notes that the Lab School developed highly prestigious programs and that Dewey proposed a successful alternative model based on student-centered learning, learning by doing, and basing education within the child's world. It suggests reviewing positive aspects of the University of Chicago Lab School in developing new instructional designs for modern education.