Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning

On Saturday, I was a guest on Leonie Haimson's show on WBAI, 'Talk Out of School.' We had a great conversation about Teaching Machines and about ed-tech then and now. You can listen here:

I've been a little remiss in adding press mentions to this site lately, but the book has had some really terrific reviews (and rather lovely, cursory mentions). A sample: Paul W. Bennett, "Teaching Machines: What Does Training Pigeons have to do with Ed Tech Innovation?" The Syllabus chose Teaching Machines...

I chatted with Mark Klobas with the New Books Network podcast about Teaching Machines. (I think it was a great conversation!)

An excerpt of Teaching Machines is in The MIT Press Reader: "The Engineered Student: On B. F. Skinner’s Teaching Machine." "The story of teaching machines is deeply intertwined with Skinner’s psycho-technologies, which laid a foundation from which education technology has never entirely broken."

I was interviewed by Bob Barrett for WAMC's The Best of Our Knowledge radio program. You can give it a listen here.

Forbes contributor Peter Greene has reviewed Teaching Machines. I'm particularly fond of the kicker: The book is fascinating and very readable, loaded with well-chosen details. Reading this story, one suspects it might be fair to say that it is ed tech, not public education, that has not made a significant...

I was a recent guest on the Class Futures podcast. Although ostensibly we were poised to discuss Teaching Machines, our conversation was much more about teaching and learning and technology today -- particularly in light of the pandemic.

I gave my first book talk at the University of Technology Sydney last week. You can watch the recording here. There were a bunch of interesting questions, including one on connectivism as an alternative to behaviorism that I promised to think (and write) some more about.

The first book review for Teaching Machines comes from David Kernohan, who writes for Wonkhe that "for those with an interest in the space between theory, technology, learning, and commerce, and with a taste for the curious rhyme of history I couldn’t imagine a more rewarding read."

I was a guest on the season finale of Terry Greene's Getting Air podcast to discuss Teaching Machines (and other things). It was a great conversation, as always.