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[xmca] Learning machines, learning artifacts

Learning machines is an expression that echoes the times of instructional technology, back in the sixties (under the dominion of behaviorism), and, at the same time, connects with recent developments in intelligent tutoring systems (one of the promises of cogsci with respect to education). Today, the New York Times, in its online edition (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/19/magazine/classroom-technology.html?ref=magazine) includes a timeline, which in a way that can be read as inaccurate or deeply correct, puts on a continuum the ferule ("a pointer and a corporal punishment device) and the Plato computer. Simply an opportunity to think about the impact of technology and artifacts in education. I guess Larry Cuban would have a lot to say. 

Jorge 

Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns, Ph.D.
Profesor Asociado y Director
Departamento de Psicología
Universidad de los Andes




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