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SUMMARY:Freedom and control: pedagogical computing in the US and the Sovie
 t Union - Ekaterina Babintseva (Purdue University)
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DESCRIPTION:In the mid-twentieth century\, the United States and the Sovie
 t Union came to believe that the future of each country hinged on capable 
 technoscientific workforce. To cultivate such workforce\, researchers in b
 oth countries suggested replacing human instructors with special pedagogic
 al computers to turn learning and teaching into an effective and fully con
 trollable process.&nbsp\; At the same time\, in the 1960s and the 1970s\, 
 both American and Soviet societies saw the rising urgency of the concept o
 f creativity. This presentation explores how researchers in each country n
 avigated the challenge of turning the mid-century computer\, a paradigmati
 c command and control machine\, into the technology that could cultivate c
 reative thinking. In doing so\, this talk explores the historical intersec
 tions of human sciences and computing\, treating pedagogical computing as 
 an effort in engineering human behavior and thinking.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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