04457cam a2200913 4500 594698254 TxAuBib 20220728120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780262363754 0262363755 B08MQ7BM7P Amazon 59e62317-ecbd-4cd3-827c-5b529ac7436e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5852564 OverDrive (Product ID) 675858 675858 675858 TxAuBib Watters, Audrey. Teaching Machines [Libby] : The History of Personalized Learning. MIT Press, 2021. Education. MBA. Biography. Learning. Teaching. neoliberalism. Computers. activism. Business. culture. work. society. Writing. philosophy. american history. critical thinking. Engineering. Capitalism. Programming. Engineer. math. hacking. ethics. psychology. mathematics. self help. communication. Reference. Design. Self Improvement. artificial intelligence. Leadership. Technology. Social Justice. higher education. Sociology. Economics. Education Reform. school. teacher. business books. engineering books. education books. engineer gifts. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 721kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Computer Technology. Education. History. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines—from Sidney Pressey's mechanized test-giver to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box.</b><br /> Contrary to popular belief, ed tech did not begin with videos on the internet. The idea of technology that would allow students to "go at their own pace" did not originate in Silicon Valley. 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. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box. 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.<br /> Watters pays particular attention to the role of the media—newspapers, magazines, television, and film—in shaping people's perceptions of teaching machines as well as the psychological theories underpinning them. She considers these machines in the context of education reform, the political reverberations of Sputnik, and the rise of the testing and textbook industries. She chronicles Skinner's attempts to bring his teaching machines to market, culminating in the famous behaviorist's efforts to launch Didak 101, the "pre-verbal" machine that taught spelling. (Alternate names proposed by Skinner include "Autodidak," "Instructomat," and "Autostructor.") Telling these somewhat cautionary tales, Watters challenges what she calls "the teleology of ed tech"—the idea that not only is computerized education inevitable, but technological progress is the sole driver of events. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-28 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=59e62317-ecbd-4cd3-827c-5b529ac7436e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=59e62317-ecbd-4cd3-827c-5b529ac7436e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=59e62317-ecbd-4cd3-827c-5b529ac7436e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXPLE