Audrey Watters, "Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning" (MIT Press, 2021)
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The History of Technology and the Classroom
i wanted to show that these are always, not just in the 19 twenties and thirties, but these are always much more complicated. There's a book by the editor of wird called what technology wants. And i think we often talk about the history of technology as though technology is kind of the driver, and it just sort of moves forward of its own volition. Of course, things are so much more on that. But this question as well, you know, city pressy was a scientist. He thought that there was a appropriate, proper scientific way to build, to build a teaching machine.
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