{"id":1112,"date":"2018-04-12T10:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T14:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2018-04-12T10:15:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T14:15:29","slug":"event-teaching-machines-how-the-automation-of-education-became-personalized-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/2018\/04\/12\/event-teaching-machines-how-the-automation-of-education-became-personalized-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"[EVENT] \u201cTeaching Machines: How the Automation of Education Became \u2018Personalized Learning\u2019\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Thursday, April 26th, 2018<br \/>\nTime: 6:30 PM<br \/>\nLocation: Room 4406 (The Ph.D. Program in English Lounge) | The Graduate Center, CUNY<br \/>\nRSVP: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/cuny.is\/hack\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/cuny.is\/hack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Come join us for an evening lecture by Audrey Watters<\/p>\n<p>Co-Sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Center, Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, and the Ph.D. Program in English<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin the next twenty years,\u201d Ohio State University psychology professor Sidney Pressey proclaimed in 1930, \u201cspecial mechanical aids will make mass psychological experimentation commonplace and bring about in education something analogous to the Industrial Revolution.\u201d Pressey was one of the first education psychologists to develop a \u201cteaching machine\u201d \u2014 an innovation often credited to B. F. Skinner \u2014 and to try (unsuccessfully) to bring that machine to market. His prediction about the future of education technology was a little off; and in some ways, it sounds quite contradictory to the arguments made about ed-tech today: that teaching machines will help counter the \u201cfactory model of schooling,\u201d that they will \u201cpersonalize\u201d learning, not \u201cindustrialize\u201d it. But that\u2019s close to what Pressey believed too, as contradictory as it sounds: that by automating education, we will \u201cindividualize\u201d it. If we trace the history of teaching machines and a century long quest to \u201cindividualize\u201d and \u201cautomate,\u201d perhaps we can see how Pressey\u2019s vision of the future might not have been so far off after all.<\/p>\n<p>Audrey Watters is an education writer, an independent scholar, a serial dropout, a rabble-rouser, and ed-tech\u2019s Cassandra. She writes at hackeducation.com, among other places.<\/p>\n<p>To request accessibility accommodations, please email <a href=\"mailto:tlc@gc.cuny.edu\">tlc@gc.cuny.edu<\/a> with your request by April 10th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Thursday, April 26th, 2018 Time: 6:30 PM Location: Room 4406 (The Ph.D. Program in English Lounge) | The Graduate Center, CUNY RSVP: http:\/\/cuny.is\/hack Come join us for an evening lecture by Audrey Watters Co-Sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Center, Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, and the Ph.D. Program in English \u201cWithin the next twenty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":1113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}