Grade Range: K-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, ArtifactsDate Posted: 11/5/2008
From the 1920s, psychologists have explored ways to automate teaching. In the 1950s, the psychologist B. F. Skinner of Harvard University suggested that techniques he had developed for training rats and pigeons might be adopted for teaching humans.
During World War II, the U.S. military needed to find accurate ways to guide missiles to their ta...
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