Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also (5) a building for the Behavioral Sciences; (6) an office and classroom building for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; (7) a new wing on the Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratory; (8) a Graduate School of Education building...
...room in suburban Tokyo looked like any big classroom; on a dais at one end stood a desk and chair, behind them a blackboard. Some 250 people had checked their shoes at the door and filled the benches. Most of them were young; many wore the black, brass-buttoned uniform of the Japanese university student. Tadao Yanaihara, president of Tokyo University, entered, and the audience rose and bowed. They sang a hymn. Then Yanaihara sat down at the desk and lectured on the Bible for two hours and five minutes...
...when they know immediately whether or not they are right--and that they do better when they are right all or most of the time. Being allowed to work at their own rate (which Skinner considers to be at least twice as fast on his machine as in the classroom) and to make progress by small steps also aid them. The machine satisfies all these criteria. The last of them, however, presents the real problem for Skinner and his researchers...
...language, Skinner will need the help of experts to scale and translate the material. His experimental "animals" will be graduate students who need to learn a language for their Ph.D. examinations. Besides developing and perfecting the materia, Skinner will have to build enough machines for an actual classroom trial when the grant runs out a year from July...
...requirements for proper education "are probably incompatible with the current realities of the classroom." As a remedy, he suggests "we have every reason to expect, therefore, that the most effective control of human learning will require instrumental aid. The simple fact is that, as a mere reinforcing mechanism, the teacher is out of date...