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...task for the next year with his grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education will be to determine just what material is necessary and suitable for an elementary college-level course in a language and a science. For a 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...
Whether the machine age will ever reach its iron tenacles into the classrooms of schools and colleges--including Harvard--is impossible to predict; but the Fund for the Advancement of Education has made certain that for at least another year, in the basement of Memorial Hall, machines will teach men; matter will rule mind
...grant will be used to finance a series of 12-minute films dealing with laboratory practice, Fieser said. A second grant of $2,700 has already been received from the University's Tozier Fund for Visual Education, he added...
...grant is one of a number from the Fund for the Advancement of Education to improve teaching methods and resources. B.F. Skinner, professor of Psychology, has received money to perfect a machine to teach an elementary language and science at the college level...
...second economy move, suspending publication of the "Review" until after next fall's fund-raising drive, followed nearly two hours of discussion as to the general effectiveness of the magazine as a means of disseminating information on Council activities, and the appropriateness of this...