Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern kitchen, all the cook must do is read the recipe, mix the ingredients, set the stove, and give the pot an occasional stir. To psychologist B.F. Skinner, the classroom is like a modern kitchen and "there is no reason why the school room should be any less mechanized than ... the kitchen." The teacher should remain, but only as cook...
...unlike many educators, Skinner has not stopped at theory. He has taken the first step in mechanizing the classroom by building a teaching machine. Ten years in the laboratory with pigeons, rats and other lower organisms, studying the learning process, convinced him that the basic conditions of the process can be fulfilled by machines. In fact, he says, his machine with its levers, disks and automatic marker teaches certain things more intelligibly than most teachers...
...Fifth Amendment or remained silent while under investigation for Communist ties or sympathies? Its main conclusion: the only way a school can justly fire a teacher is to prove that he is unfit to teach because of "incompetence, lack of scholarly objectivity or integrity, serious misuse of the classroom or of academic prestige, gross personal misconduct, or conscious participation in conspiracy against the government...
...teaching machine designed to take over the performance of certain classroom duties has been built by B. Frederick Skinner, professor of Psychology. He has just received a grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education to develop the "robot" for teaching elementary languages and science at the college level...
...need for teachers, Skinner said, but would be designed to relieve the instruction of routine drill. As yet, there is no definite plan for the use of these machines at Harvard or any other college, but he hopes that enough material and machines will be ready for an actual classroom trial a year from...