Teaching Machines
Teaching Machines How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines--from Sidney Pressey's mechanized test-giver to B. F. The idea of technology that would allow students to "go at their own…
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Teaching Machines
How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines--from Sidney Pressey's mechanized test-giver to B. F. The idea of technology that would allow students to "go at their own pace" did not originate in Silicon Valley. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box.Contrary to popular belief, ed tech did not begin with videos on the internet.
Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box. In Teaching Machines, education writer Audrey Watters offers a lively history of predigital educational technology, from Sidney Pressey's mechanized positive-reinforcement provider to B. F. Watters shows that these machines and the pedagogy that accompanied them sprang from ideas--bite-sized content, individualized instruction--that had legs and were later picked up by textbook publishers and early advocates for computerized learning.Watters pays particular attention to the role of the