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DHMS and CETL: Teaching Machines Book Discussion Group

A poster advertising a book discussion about Audrey Watters' Teaching Machines. A picture of the book cover beside text that reads: UCHI's Digital Humanities and Media Studies Initiative and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning presents a discussion group about Audrey Watters’ Teaching Machines. February 10, 2022, 3:00pm. Live. Online. Registration required. Related event: virtual book talk by Audrey Watters, February 17 at 4:00pm.

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The Digital Humanities and Media Studies Initiative and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning invite you to a book discussion group about:

Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning

by Audrey Watters

February 10, 2022, 3:00–4:00pm
Live • Online • Registration required.

UCHI and CETL are hosting a book discussion group about Audrey Watters’ new book Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning (MIT, 2021). Watters is perhaps best known for her website Hack Education, which covers “the history of the future of education technology.” Teaching Machines expands on that project, looking at how the desire for a technical solution to the social problem of equality in education pre-date the digital era.

To participate in the book discussion, please register. The first twenty registrants with UConn email addresses will receive a free electronic copy of Teaching Machines (MIT Press, 2021). Please email uchi@uconn.edu to receive your ebook. We also have paper copies that can be picked up once our office reopens in February.

In conjunction with this event, Audrey Watters will give a virtual book talk on February 17, 2021 at 4:00pm. To attend the talk, register here.