{"id":99985,"date":"2018-02-16T12:14:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T17:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/?p=99985"},"modified":"2018-02-16T12:14:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T17:14:24","slug":"learning-from-teaching-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/news\/2018\/02\/16\/learning-from-teaching-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning from Teaching Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teachingmachin.es\/timeline.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-99988 alignright\" alt=\"teachmach\" src=\"\/library\/files\/2018\/02\/teachmach.png\" height=\"229\" width=\"198\" \/><\/a>A new web timeline highlights the <a href=\"http:\/\/teachingmachin.es\/timeline.html\">History of Teaching Machines<\/a>.\u00a0 The site, created by writer Audrey Watters, can serve as a very brief introduction to educational technology over the years. The timeline features developments\u00a0as diverse as MOOCs, television programs, B. F. Skinners&#8217; teaching &#8220;box&#8221;, and &#8220;mechanical textbooks&#8221;.\u00a0 \u00a0The site has some links to further reading, but you can also find more literature about teaching machines, and of course educational technology, within BU Libraries Search.\u00a0 See below for a selection of works available to the Boston University Community.<\/p>\n<p>For another freely available, more\u00a0expansive introduction to educational technology, a lengthy and well-organized entry appears on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Educational_technology\">Wikipedia<\/a>.\u00a0 The Education Librarian at BU, Dan Benedetti, suggests that Wikipedia articles can serve as great introductions to topics for general background knowledge, but that such essays should rarely if ever be cited in\u00a0in a college-level papers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/bu\/detail.action?docID=3318857\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-99989\" alt=\"teachmach2\" src=\"\/library\/files\/2018\/02\/teachmach2.png\" height=\"244\" width=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learntechlib.org.ezproxy.bu.edu\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-99990\" alt=\"teachmach3\" src=\"\/library\/files\/2018\/02\/teachmach3.png\" height=\"124\" width=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/primo-explore\/fulldisplay?docid=ALMA_BOSU121616066230001161&amp;context=L&amp;vid=BU&amp;search_scope=default_scope&amp;tab=default_tab&amp;lang=en_US\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-99991\" alt=\"teachmach4\" src=\"\/library\/files\/2018\/02\/teachmach4-615x105.png\" height=\"105\" width=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/02\/teachmach4-615x105.png 615w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/02\/teachmach4-768x131.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/02\/teachmach4.png 803w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new web timeline highlights the History of Teaching Machines.\u00a0 The site, created by writer Audrey Watters, can serve as a very brief introduction to educational technology over the years. The timeline features developments\u00a0as diverse as MOOCs, television programs, B. F. Skinners&#8217; teaching &#8220;box&#8221;, and &#8220;mechanical textbooks&#8221;.\u00a0 \u00a0The site has some links to further reading, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99985"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99995,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99985\/revisions\/99995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}