Spell And Hear
NEW YORK, August 4. Six-year-old Julie Castell picked up a book and read with practised ease: “The passengers get into the helicopter and take-off over the trees to reach the airport.”
Not bad for a six-year-old and remarkable in the case of Julie—who has not had a single reading lesson from any human teacher in her school at Freeport, Long Island.
She and 20 other children in her class were taught to read by an electronic brain. And all of them are ahead of other children’s methods. The robot teacher has a typewriter keyboard and speaks as well as prints the letter when a child presses a key. When she starts writing words, a picture flashes on to a small screen depicting the word if it is correctly spelt.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30512, 6 August 1964, Page 7
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