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Event: The Graduate Center, CUNY Presents Audrey Watters

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    • April 10, 2018 at 12:21 pm #3264
      Lisa Marie Rhody
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      Come join us for an evening lecture by Audrey Watters: “Teaching Machines: How the Automation of Education Became ‘Personalized Learning’”

      Thursday, April 26 | 6:30pm
      The Graduate Center, CUNY
      Room 4406 (The Ph.D. Program in English Lounge)
      Reception to Follow

      RSVP http://cuny.is/hack

      Co-Sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Center, Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, and the Ph.D. Program in English

      “Within the next twenty years,” Ohio State University psychology professor Sidney Pressey proclaimed in 1930, “special mechanical aids will make mass psychological experimentation commonplace and bring about in education something analogous to the Industrial Revolution.” Pressey was one of the first education psychologists to develop a “teaching machine” — an innovation often credited to B. F. Skinner — 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 “factory model of schooling,” that they will “personalize” learning, not “industrialize” it. But that’s close to what Pressey believed too, as contradictory as it sounds: that by automating education, we will “individualize” it. If we trace the history of teaching machines and a century long quest to “individualize” and “automate,” perhaps we can see how Pressey’s vision of the future might not have been so far off after all.

      Audrey Watters is an education writer, an independent scholar, a serial dropout, a rabble-rouser, and ed-tech’s Cassandra. She writes at hackeducation.com, among other places.

      To request accessibility accommodations, please email tlc@gc.cuny.edu with your request by April 10th.

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