Teaching Machines and Turing Machines: The History of the Future of Labor and Learning

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1. Teaching Machines: The History of the Future of Education Audrey Watters - @audreywatters Digital Pedagogy Lab 2015
2. Teaching Machines and Turing Machines: The History of the Future of Labor and Learning Audrey Watters - @audreywatters Digital Pedagogy Lab 2015
3. “Books will soon be obsolete in schools” — Thomas Edison (1913)
4. “One cannot understand the history of education in the US in the twentieth century unless one realizes that Edward Thorndike won and John Dewey lost” — Ellen Lagemann (1989)
5. “In 50 years, there will only be 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education…” — Sebastian Thrun (2012)
6. Education should run like a machine.
7. Whose labor is saved by labor-saving machines?
8. “Any teacher that can be replaced by machine should be” — Arthur C. Clarke (1980)
9. “There must be an ‘industrial revolution’ in education” — Sidney Pressey (1933)
10. “There’s no reason why the schoolroom should be any less mechanized than, for example, the kitchen” — BF Skinner (1956)
11. “Machines will be capable within twenty years of doing any work a man can do” — Herbert Simon (1956)
12. “Before the end of this century, 70% of today’s occupations will be … replaced by automation” — Kevin Kelly (2012)
13. Robots “make great university professors” — R.U.R. (1920)
14. What happens to our humanity amid a society of machines?
15. The casualization of labor, the feminization of labor, and the rise of robots…
16. Teaching labor is affective labor
17. What happens when we automate care?
18. The question is not “can a machine think?” but “can a machine fool someone into thinking it’s a woman”
19. “In five years, the classroom will learn you” — IBM
20. Do we care that machines do not care for students? Do we care for students?
21. With the rise of machines, we are working more… not less…
22. What happens (to labor and learning) when we convince ourselves the machines care?