B. F. Skinner on Teaching Machines (1954)

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. B. F. Skinner on Teaching Machines (1954)
Mike Caulfield, Hapgood, February 11, 2013
Mike Caulfield links to this video with the commentary, "Skinner tackles concepts of self-paced learning, the importance of quick feedback, the basics of gamification, aspects of proximal development, and mastery learning. He understands that it is not the *machine* that teaches, but the person that writes the teaching program. And he is better informed than almost the entire current educational press pool in that he states clearly that a “teaching machine” is really just a new kind of textbook." More...