Teaching Machines: Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology (Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology)
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (629 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1421415402 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Teaching Machines provides invaluable new insight into our current debate over the efficacy of educational technology.. The allure of educational technology is easy to understand. Skinner’s teaching machine, intelligent tutoring systems, and eLearning. 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. 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 e
(Ed Ayers, President, University of Richmond)Provides valuable historical background, memorable stories, and a thoughtful tour of today's landscape. Ferster’s engaging, original argumentthat knowing what happened when older technologies were used should be of great practical and academic value todayis one of the most exciting ideas I have encountered for a very long time. (Reflective Teacher) . This should be required reading for all instructional designers and computer engineers interested in teaching machines and/or education. Sprague, George Mason University)A valuable history of educational technology, Bill Ferster takes us from PLATO to MOOCs, B. He demonstrates how early mechanical devicesbooks, telephones, radio, television, an
Three Stars Matthew Mouse Magna Carta Holy Grail. Informative and Thoughtful Book about the Teaching/Learning Experience Denis J. Cotter The cover illustration for Bill Ferster’s informative and thoughtful new book Teaching Machines shows a human hand extending the pointer finger towards the pointer finger of a digital representation of a human hand. It is an echo of Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam”. Given the respective location of the hands in the original painting, the new God (on the right) is Technology and the new Adam (on the left) is the same old Adam.The int
He is the author of Interactive Visualization: Insight through Inquiry.. 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)