WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 2. 1960
Teaching Machines
To Aid Education
By MEG TEICHHOLTZ
Second of a series
What is a teaching machine? The aim of the educational
research project under Title VII of the National Defense Ed
ucation Act is to find out exactly what it is and what it can
do for education.
According to Henry W. Sams, head of the English depart-
Ed Council
Asks Study
Of Advisors
The Education Student
Council recommended last
night that new professors not
be made student advisors.
The council also recommended
a complete college career plan be
mapped out for each student when
he is a freshman or a sophomore
and that there be a correlation
between advisors on opinions of
what courses must be taken be
fore student teaching
Sharon Hoffman, council pres
ident. will take these recommen
dations to the Student Personnel
and Welfare Committee, which
consists of a faculty representa
tive from each department of ed
ucation and the three council of
ficers. This committee, acting on
an earlier council recommenda
tion, is making an inquiry into
the advisory system.
In other business, the council
decided to sponsor a volleyball
game between education students
and faculty members.
A definite time and place for
the game has not been announced.
If this first game is successful,
the council plans to hold other
student-faculty sports events.
Prybyla Writes in 'Wealth'
Dr. Jan S. Prybyla, assistant
professor of economics, is the
author of an article, ‘ The World
of the ‘Wealth of Nations’,” pub
lished in the October issue of the
Toronto Quarterly.
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ment and consultant to the proj
ect in the English subject area,
teaching machines can take the
basic teaching of English skills
and designate them to a machine
thus “excusing the instructor and
the student from boredom.”
But what exactly is this mys
terious machine that can light
up or make noise and signals
errors a student nas made as it
teaches? Sams said that there
are about 26 varieties of the
"teaching machine," each using
elaborately programmed cards,
to leach the basic skills of lan
guage to a student who is not
adequately prepared in these
skills.
The program, sets of questions,
really do the teaching as the an
swer to a preceding question sup
plies knowledge required to an
swer the next.
“All sophistication In language
is eliminated from the pro
grammed cards,” Sams said. Ex
amples of things which would be
taught by machines are the dis
tinctions between such homo
nyms as “there and their; to, too
and two.”
Sams stated that linguistics
problems are “part of a compli
cated national problem that in
creases just as the number of stu
dents seeking admissions to high
er educational institutions in
creases."
Sams also added that after
1962, a non-credit English com
position course now offered to
aid students deficient in Eng
lish will be eliminated and may
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I. Theme:
All banners must, in some way, pertain to the Penn
State vs. Maryland football game. Penn State spirit
in any form can be used. The purpose of this general
ized theme is to colorfully illustrate to the adminis
tration, faculty, students, and townspeople that Penn
State Is giving their full support to the Nittany Lions.
HI. Judging:
The ease with which the Judges may interpret
or understand the meaning or theme of your
banner will mean much in the judging of these
banners.
The breakdown of ihe scoring points is as fol
lows:
clarity 20 points
originality 30 poirits
expression of Penn State spirit 30 points
craftsmanship 20 points
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Student Tickets
Remain for Talk
On Arab Problem
About 700 student tickets still
remain for the first University
Lecture Series of the semester, a
talk by Lieutenant General Sir
John Eiagot Glubb at 8:30 p.m.
tomorrow in Schwab.
Nearly 200 faculty and non
student tickets also remain for
the lecture.
Glubb, a legendary figure in the
Arab world and’ a noted author
ity on the Middle East, will speak
on “The Middle East Storm
Center of the World."
For 36 years he lived among
the Arabs as friend and confident.
Glubb also.served as Commander
of the Arab Legion in the 1940’5.
He lived almost" entirely with
the Bedouins, rarely meeting Eu
ropeans and sometimes not speak
ing a word of English for weeks
on end.
He dressed in their garb, ate
their food, traveled by camel and
slept in tents. He has always re
mained a British subject.
The personal prestige of Glubb
grew to the point where he ad
judicated disputes between Arab
chieftains and became known as
the “uncrowned King of Jordan.”
USAF Selection Team
A United States Air Force offi
cer selection team will be on
campus from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30
p.m. next Monday at the Hetzel
Union Building.
Information will be available
to students, male or female, in
terested in commissions as offi
cers in the U.S. Air Force.
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DARE Wants
More Study On
Town Survey
After much discussion on the
proposal that DARE, Direct Action
for Racial Equality, assist a town
committee on discrimination in
its proposed survey of housing
situations in State College, DARE
postponed its decision until fur
ther organization of "the survey
by a committee.
The survey, which will be spon
sored by the Burgess’ committee
of State College, is intended to
determine the exact housing situ
ation in State College in regard
to discrimination against all mi
nority groups.
. Although the survey would be
underwritten by some town
group, the committee wants the
help of sludent groups to carry
out the actual work of the sur
vey.
In other business in its week
end meeting, DARE decided to in
vite the Student Goevrnment As
sociation Committee on Inter
racial Problems to their next
The Men of Phi Kappa Psi invite nil eligible Ist semester
freshmen to a Rushing Smoker at the chapter house on
Wed., Nov. 2, 1960 from 7-9. Refreshments will be served.
RUSHING SMOKER, WED. 7-9
BANNER
If. Banner requirements and contest rules:
1. Banners must be completed by 5-'OO p.m., Nov. 4. 1960.
They will be judged between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
2. Banners must be intact until 5:00 p.m. Saturday, Nov. slli,
1960.
No display will cost more than twenty-five dollars ($25)
Displays will be disqualified for failure to adhere to con
test rules.
The Daily Collegian reserves the right to remove any
banner that is in any way derogatory, demoralizing, or
in poor taste to our University ideals.
Any dorm unit is eligible to participate.
IV. Awards:
1. The first place winner shall receive a trophy from the
Association of Independent men.
The first three winning banners will be announced at the
Penn State vs. Maryland football game on Saturday, Nov.
5, 1960.
The trophy will be awarded at the Friday Pep Rally,
Nov. 4, 1960, the evening prior to the Maryland game.
meeting to explain how DARE
could assijst : n maintaining of the
housing list which SGA will con
trol.
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