Audrey Watters

Teaching Machines

The History of Personalized Learning

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 122mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9780262546065
• ISBN-10: 026254606X
• Artikelnr.: 64173419

Autorenporträt

Audrey Watters is a writer on education and technology. She is the creator of the popular blog Hack Education (hackeducation.com) and the author of widely read annual reviews of educational technology news and products.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1 B.F. Skinner Builds a Teaching Machine 19
2 Sidney Pressey and the Automatic Teacher 35
3 "Mechanical Education Wanted" 61
4 The Commercialization of B.F. Skinner's First Machines 81
5 B.F. Skinner Tries Again 107
6 Programmed Instruction: In Theory and Practice 135
7 Imagining the Mechanization of Teachers' Work 149
8 Hollins College and "The Roanoke Experiment" 167
9 Teaching Machines, Inc. 179
10 B.F. Skinner's Disillusionment 195
11 Programmed Instruction and the Practice of Freedom 213
12 Against B.F. Skinner 231
Conclusion 245
Acknowledgments 265
Notes 269
Index 301