{"id":6587,"date":"2017-09-02T23:52:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T23:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6587"},"modified":"2017-09-02T23:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T23:52:28","slug":"skinner-on-his-teaching-machine-and-programmed-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6587","title":{"rendered":"Skinner on his Teaching Machine and programmed learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/teachinginadigitalage\/chapter\/section-3-2-behaviourism\/\"><em>Teaching in a Digital Age<\/em><\/a> by A. W. Bates I came across this 1954 video of Skinner explaining his Teaching Machine inspired by behaviourism. The machine runs a paper script, but it isn&#8217;t that different from the computer based drill training today. You get a question, you write your answer, and you get feedback.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"B.F Skinner. Teaching machine and programmed learning\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jTH3ob1IRFo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Later we got machines that projected slides and hypertext systems. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Clxq4rasACQ\">Programmed Instruction and Teaching Machines<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0Teaching in a Digital Age by A. W. Bates I came across this 1954 video of Skinner explaining his Teaching Machine inspired by behaviourism. The machine runs a paper script, but it isn&#8217;t that different from the computer based drill training today. You get a question, you write your answer, and you get feedback. Later &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6587\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skinner on his Teaching Machine and programmed learning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6588,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587\/revisions\/6588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}