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What every good human teacher yearns to do is give each student tutoring that matches his unique needs. Confronted with 20 or 30 kids at once, the teacher simply cannot achieve that goal. "Computer technology," says Dr. Patrick C. Suppes, 44, director of Stanford's Institute for Mathematical Studies...
...past five years, using $2,500,000 in grants from the Carnegie Corporation, the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Office of Education. At first, he tested a primitive drill and practice system consisting of Teletypes hooked into a Stanford computer by telephone wires. The new IBM computerized teacher is housed in a windowless, thick-carpeted new building at the Brentwood School, and connects to 16 student-instruction "terminals" that have Teletypes, TV screens and speaker systems...
That's Correct. The first thing that the student does is peck his name out on the Teletype (to kids who write "Batman," the computer politely responds, "Please file again"). This enables the computer brain to run through the student's record of instruction and achievement and pick...
An incorrect answer brings remedial exercises. If the student answers rag instead of ran, he evidently does not understand the basic concept being taught, so the computer goes back over previous drills. On the other hand, if he touches ban, he gets remedial exercises in initial sounds. Unlike a human...
Unlike Monopoly, which gets parlor fun out of make-believe real estate transactions, Manchester cannot be bought at the nearest toy store. It is produced, under contract, for various business, government and educational institutions by Abt Associates, a 20 month-old fledgling in the Rand-type "think factory" research field...