The issue is how do we begin to look at Disney so as to take them seriously as a teaching machine, and not merely as a source of entertainment.
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Out of this came the idea of structural communication which led the Institute into co-operative work with G . E . C . in the field of teaching machines.
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Work was done with the electronics company GEC to develop a teaching machine the Systemaster because at this time there was little widespread use of computers.
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The " Dream State Teaching Machine " is supposed to condition a sleeper for " lucid dreaming " _ the ability to be aware of dreams without waking up.
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The concept of intelligent machines for instructional use date back as early as 1924, when Sidney Pressey of Ohio State University created a mechanical teaching machine to instruct students without a human teacher.
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Skinner advocated the use of teaching machines for a broad range of students ( e . g ., preschool aged to adult ) and instructional purposes ( e . g ., reading and music ).
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:" The first . . [ teaching machine ] was developed by Sidney L . Pressey . . . While originally developed as a self-scoring machine . . . [ it ] demonstrated its ability to actually teach ".
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The show begins with a presentation, in documents and photos, of the Bauhaus School of Weimar and Dessau _ that extraordinary teaching machine conceived by some of the major figures of 20th-century architecture, where Albers taught for many years.
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The work with the Hirst Research Laboratories of G . E . C . bore fruit in the new teaching machine, the'Systemaster', and Bennett organised various young people around him to write and develop teaching materials that followed the structural communication method.
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The instructional potential of the teaching machine stemmed from several factors : it provided automatic, immediate and regular reinforcement without the use of aversive control; the material presented was coherent, yet varied and novel; the pace of learning could be adjusted to suit the individual.
