The Automatic Teacher

  “Although the teaching machine is most associated with Harvard psychology professor B. F. Skinner, Watters takes the reader back to the er...

 “Although the teaching machine is most associated with Harvard psychology professor B. F. Skinner, Watters takes the reader back to the era of President Calvin Coolidge and Ohio State Professor Sidney Pressey’s efforts to build and commercialize an “Automatic Teacher”—a machine that would allow students to answer questions, receive feedback, and, at the switch of a lever, progress only after they correctly answered the question.”
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