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A news report in 1965 looked at ‘programmed learning machines’ which aimed to utilise technology and assist individual learning.
Programmed learning is characterised by self-paced, self-administered instruction presented in a logical sequence.
Clip taken from BBC News, originally broadcast on BBC One, Tuesday 7 September, 1965.
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Pressing buttons,,now they are pressing tiktok
That was rather ahead of it's time. Cost would have been why they didn't take off.
In 2009, laptops were introduced to my school, and parents had to pay for them, but students were not allowed to take them home. We would be messaging other students sitting next to us or behind us 🙂
And the cleverest children got to meet the Krotons in the back room.
Reminds me of my 1960s tech grammar school's language laboratory where we sat in little booths with a tape recorder and headphones trying to learn french. Did they disappear with the advent of the PC?
I spent years learning pounds shillings and pence. Then we went decimal just before I left.😂
I recall using a similar machine at primary school in the early 70,s
3:40 Looks like she wants to say 'When you press the wrong button the floor opens up beneath you'.
The calculating machines on the desks that look like a cross between a typewriter and an old style telephone are (or appear to be) Monroe mechanical calculators. Monroe is a company that was founded in the 1920s and the brand still exists. They produced a range of similar machines.
The actual screen device is (appears to be) an Empirical AutoTutor Mark 2. An interesting device that could run different lessons stored on reels called TutorFilms.
Yeah I googled that. There are loads of retro/vintage computing websites with more details of both machines.
No wonder that poor teacher looks like a zombie; having to listen to the cacophony of incessant click-clacking all day! Who needs textbooks when an overcomplicated slide projector can be given to each student?
As I remember they were called auto tutors , you loaded a reel of film into the machine and a light bulb would project an image onto the screen depending on which of the buttons you pressed, if you left it on one image for too long the film would melt, they were still being used in 1975 at my school, what a load of junk, a failed experiment and we were the guinea pigs.
Why do the British call teenagers children? Is this a cultural thing? Do they infantilize them as insults? I just don't understand it.
Pretty impressive for the time.
What utter junk. A complete waste of money. I don't suppose that the machines survived long. Attrition due to vandalism would have rendered them unworkable in a short time.
Wonderful work
That's not a classroom. That's a pachinko hall.
Those machines were dear 😮 £22k in 1965 is = to £300k nearly today 😮
She sounds like maggie thatcher😊
Where are those machines now?
Now, all the girls have hearing aids after taking their early O’levels.
I was hoping to hear what the name of the system was. Unless I missed it.
The maths teacher was straight from horror movie central casting.
This was before the invasion
"Would you like to do all your lessons all the time on the machines?" 3:50
"No, because I wouldn't be able to hear myself think."
Teacher shortage in 1965? Some things never change 😂
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