Long before the advent of personal computers, inventors and researchers created what they called “teaching machines” in hopes of revolutionizing education. Some of these creations date back to the ...
To its 5,000 salesmen across the U.S., Grolier Inc., publisher of America’s oldest encyclopedia, last week handed out an odd-looking new product to sell door to door. A green, windowed, sheet-metal ...
As I was reading Audrey Watters’s Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning, recently published by MIT Press, the word “landmark” kept occurring to me.[1] This is a landmark book. It is ...
nmahmain copy 39088020680419 Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines-from Sidney Pressey's mechanized test-giver to B. F. Skinner's ...
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