Teaching Machines

Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology

AvBill Ferster

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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The allure of educational technology is easy to understand. Classroom instruction is an expensive and time-consuming process fraught with contradictory theories and frustratingly uneven results. Educators, inspired by machines' contributions to modern life, have been using technology to facilitate teaching for centuries. In Teaching Machines, Bill Ferster examines past attempts to automate instruction from the earliest use of the postal service for distance education to the current maelstrom surrounding Massive Open Online Courses. He tells the stories of the entrepreneurs and visionaries who, beginning in the colonial era, developed and promoted various instructional technologies. Ferster touches on a wide range of attempts to enhance the classroom experience with machines, from hornbooks, the Chautauqua movement, and correspondence courses to B. F. Skinner's teaching machine, intelligent tutoring systems, and eLearning. The famed progressive teachers, researchers, and administrators that the book highlights often overcame substantial hurdles to implement their ideas, but not all of them succeeded in improving the quality of education.Teaching Machines provides invaluable new insight into our current debate over the efficacy of educational technology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-01-12
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9781421415406

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Material och digital teknik i undervisningen inom Psykologi och pedagogik

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Bill Ferster is a research professor at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the director of visualization for the Sciences, Humanities & Arts Technology Initiative (SHANTI). He is the author of Interactive Visualization: Insight through Inquiry.

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Provides valuable historical background, memorable stories, and a thoughtful tour of today's landscape. Those working towards an initial, but informed, opinion of the possibilities of educational technology will find the book helpful. -- Mark Notess elearn Magazine Teaching Machines' readability and its appealing mix of theory and narrative, historical and contemporary developments make it a valuable choice as a course reader for lecturers, instructional designers and indeed for anyone engaged in the business of education. It will sit in a prominent place on my bookshelf, thanks to its engaging, insightful and comprehensive review of the evolution of educational technology. -- Steve Wheeler Times Higher Ed What Ferster's readable history shows, at some fundamental level, is a need to rethink the real capabilities of educational technology. Reflective Teacher ... an accessible account of "teaching machines" enlivened by the author's personal anecdotes, his reflections and many photographs and illustrations. Canadian Journal of Higher Education ... Teaching machines contributes a highly readable analytical guide to a world that many historians of education have tended to dismiss. Journal of the History of Education Society