Watch this six-minute video on Teaching Machines, presented by B.F. Skinner (exact date is unverified but believed to be in the 1950s). To put it in historical context, you may find it useful to skim this short history of instructional design, which is itself a historical artifact from the early years of the World Wide Web.
Pick one or two of the following thinkers or approaches and read a bit about them, starting with the resources linked. What would they like about the Teaching Machines approach? What would they oppose, and what alternatives would they propose?
Socratic Method
Communities of Practice
Etienne Wenger
Jean Lave
Paulo Freire
Ivan Illich
Social Constructivism
Actor Network Theory
Emergent Learning Model
Assignment:
Write a blog post about what you think of the “teaching machine.”
How do the approaches or above thinkers support (or go against) your thoughts?
Read the blog posts of your classmates and comment on their
thoughts.
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