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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means that (7) is a - of (1,3,5,7,9). Algebra Speedup. Theintervening 85 frames obviously carried the student a long way. Eigen and Teacher P. Kenneth Komoski did some pioneer math programing at Manhattan's Collegiate School, one of the oldest U.S. boys' schools, and in one case 74 students completed in two weeks a highly abstract algebra course that used to take more than two months. A programed course in logic at Hamilton College cut class time by one-third. At Columbia University, one student wrote a perfect.final exam after doing one term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Programed Learning | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...fact that cheap machines are inflexible and flexible machines are costly leads many a programer to holler go slow. Ken Komoski wants to wait until machines "can be completely flexible" through the addition of sound, motion-picture and automatic scoring devices." Others propose simply to let programed books do the job. Skinnerian books make turning a page to find an answer and a new frame the equivalent of switching frames on a machine. That permits easy cheating, but book programers argue that interesting programing eliminates the desire to peek ahead. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films' big programing division uses nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Programed Learning | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...Programer Komoski puts it: "Any teacher who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be replaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Programed Learning | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

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