Audrey Watters, "Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Is There a Standardized Education?
Sidney cressy, who was an educational psychologist, a professor at ohio state university, had the sort of brilliant idea that if we could build machines that would both test and teach students, then we would have a better idea of students capabilities. Andso sidney pressy a built a, he was a tinkerer himself, and, ah, he built a prototype of a teaching machine out of old typewriter parts. He student would be posed a question, a multiple choice question, and they would push a button,. If they got the question right, it would move on to the next question. There was another, a, an addition you could add to it,
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