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04082aam a2200421 i 4500 001 712CA5FE323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211021010114 008 200604t20212021maua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020024477 020 $a 0262045699 020 $a 9780262045698 035 $a (OCoLC)1157479329 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d BDX $d HF9 $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a LB1028.3 $b .W383 2021 082 00 $a 371.33 $2 23 100 1 $a Watters, Audrey, $e author. 245 10 $a Teaching machines : $b the history of personalized learning / $c Audrey Watters. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b The MIT Press, $c [2021] 300 $a x, 313 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machinesâfrom Sidney Presseyâs mechanized test-giver to B. F. Skinnerâs behaviorist bell-ringing box. Contrary to popular belief, ed tech did not begin with videos on the internet. The idea of technology that would allow students to âgo at their own paceâ did not originate in Silicon Valley. In Teaching Machines, education writer Audrey Watters offers a lively history of predigital educational technology, from Sidney Presseyâs mechanized positive-reinforcement provider to B. F. Skinnerâs behaviorist bell-ringing box. Watters shows that these machines and the pedagogy that accompanied them sprang from ideasâbite-sized content, individualized instructionâthat 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 mediaânewspapers, magazines, television, and film --in shaping peopleâs 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 Skinnerâs attempts to bring his teaching machines to market, culminating in the famous behavioristâs efforts to launch Didak 101, the âpre-verbalâ machine that taught spelling. (Alternate names proposed by Skinner include âAutodidak,â âInstructomat,â and âAutostructor.â) Telling these somewhat cautionary tales, Watters challenges what she calls âthe teleology of ed techââthe idea that not only is computerized education inevitable, but technological progress is the sole driver of events. -- Provided by publisher. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Educational technology $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Programmed instruction $x History $y 20th century. 600 10 $a Skinner, B. F. $q (Burrhus Frederic), $d 1904-1990. 650 0 $a Web-based instruction $x History $y 20th century. 600 17 $a Skinner, B. F. $q (Burrhus Frederic), $d 1904-1990. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00032110 650 7 $a Educational technology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00903623 650 7 $a Programmed instruction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01078691 650 7 $a Web-based instruction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01173272 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117033058.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=712CA5FE323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search