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“Despite Skinner’s fantasies of a well-engineered and egalitarian society in his novel, his prescriptive behavioral programming could never lead to freedom, [SNCC] activists discovered, as it sought to shape and control, denying agency to the people they sought to uplift. And agency was key to learning”
These moments of insights are what make the book worthwhile but they are few and far between.
— Dec 30, 2022 11:48AM
These moments of insights are what make the book worthwhile but they are few and far between.
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BF Skinner in 1958 (but might as well be talking about ChatGPT): “Will machines replace teachers? Ok the contrary, they are capital equipment to be used by teachers to save time and labor. In assigning certain mechanizable functions to machines, the teacher emerges in his proper role as an indispensable human being… In return for his greater productivity he can ask society to improve his economic condition”
— Dec 24, 2022 11:24AM
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“It was a tension that foreshadowed the one that would come to the classroom: being a good school meant buying educational machinery, but being a good teacher meant resisting roboticization” 👀 👀 👀
— Dec 13, 2022 03:08PM
