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Teaching machines / Audrey Watters.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]Description: x, 313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780262045698
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.33 WAT  23
LOC classification:
  • LB1028.3 .W383 2021
Contents:
B. F. Skinner builds a teaching machine -- Sidney Pressey and the automatic teacher -- "Mechanical education wanted" -- The commercialization of B. F. Skinner's first machines -- B. F. Skinner tries again -- Programmed instruction: in theory and practice -- Imagining the mechanization of teachers' work -- Hollins College and "The Roanoke Experiment" -- Teaching Machines, Inc. -- B. F. Skinner's disillusionment -- Programmed instruction and the practice of freedom -- Against B. F. Skinner.
Summary: "Teaching Machines traces the development of education technology from roughly the 1920s through the end of the 1990s, shaping our ideas of standardization and individualism"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

B. F. Skinner builds a teaching machine -- Sidney Pressey and the automatic teacher -- "Mechanical education wanted" -- The commercialization of B. F. Skinner's first machines -- B. F. Skinner tries again -- Programmed instruction: in theory and practice -- Imagining the mechanization of teachers' work -- Hollins College and "The Roanoke Experiment" -- Teaching Machines, Inc. -- B. F. Skinner's disillusionment -- Programmed instruction and the practice of freedom -- Against B. F. Skinner.

"Teaching Machines traces the development of education technology from roughly the 1920s through the end of the 1990s, shaping our ideas of standardization and individualism"-- Provided by publisher.

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