Ed-Tech Robotics (Learning 2.0 talk)

Transcript

1. Audrey Watters 2012 Learning 2.0 Virtual Conference
2. Three Laws of Robotics
3. Robots in the Classroom
15. Three Laws of Robotics
16. Three Laws of Robotics 1. A robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
17. Three Laws of Robotics 2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
18. Three Laws of Robotics 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws.
19. Three Laws of Robotics 0. A robot may not harm humanity, or by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
20. Three Laws of Robotics
21. Three Laws of Robotics Ethics Automation Labor Learning
22. Three Laws of Robotics Ethics Automation Labor Learning
23. Three Laws of Robotics Ethics Automation Labor Learning
24. Three Laws of Robotics Ethics Automation Labor Learning
25. Literature Review (Culture)
27. Science and... The Sacred The Profane The Creation of Life 
 The Creation of 
 Artificial Intelligence A Desire for
 Control
28. What does it mean to be human?
29. Robot as... Machine Worker Serf
30. Labor Bodies Gender Efficiency
31. Evil
32. Emotion
33. Control
34. Also starring Pam Grier as a robot teacher.
36. “Whoa. I know Kung Fu”
 -- Keanu Reeves, The Matrix
37. Literature Review (Science)
39. Artificial Intelligence Natural Language Processing Machine Learning
40. Can a machine think? (See: Eliza)
41. CAPTCHA And just so you don’t think I’ve forgotten about the education angle here, FYI: the CAPTCHA inventor’s latest startup is, you guessed it, an ed-tech one: Duolingo http://duolingo.com
46. Intelligent Tutoring Adaptive Learning
47. Robot Essay Graders
48. “This study compared the results from nine automated essay scoring engines on eight essay scoring prompts drawn from six states that annually administer high-stakes writing assessments... Overall, automated essay scoring was capable of producing scores similar to human scores for extended-response writing items with equal performance for both source-based and traditional writing genre.” Mark Shermis, University of Akron Ben Hamner, Kaggle
49. “The demonstration showed conclusively that automated essay scoring systems are fast, accurate, and cost effective.” Tom Vander Ark, investor
50. Efficiency
51. “If computers can read like people it's because we have trained people to read like computers.” Alex Reid, University at Buffalo
52. Programming a Robot v. Programming a Human
55. “The human brain must be made to conform to the much more advanced brain of the machine. And education will no longer be an unpredictable and exciting adventure in human enlightenment but an exercise in conformity and an apprenticeship to whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world.” Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (1964)
56. Ethics and the Automation of Education
57. Universities are supposed to be special places where we let young people imagine a better world. They are supposed to be able to delay the pressures of the daily grind for a few years. They are supposed to be able to aspire to greatness and inspire each other. A tiny few will aspire to be poets. Many more will aspire to be engineers. Some will become both. Along the way they will bond with friends, meet lovers, experience hangovers, make mistakes, and read some mind- blowing books. Does that sound wasteful? Does that sound inefficient? Nostalgic? Out-of-sync with the times? Damn right it does. But if we don’t want young people of all backgrounds to experiment with ideas and identities because it seems too expensive to support, we have to ask ourselves what sort of society we are trying to become. Siva Vaidhyanthan, University of Virginia
58. Three Laws of Robotics 0. A robot may not harm humanity, or by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
59. Three Laws of Robotics 0. A robot may not harm humanity, or by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
61. Uncanny Valley Addenda:
63. via Latitude Research
66. Audrey Watters @audreywatters hackeducation.com
67. Isaac Asimov Star Trek Jeopardy Steve Hargadon The Matrix Frankenstein (the movie)
 Frankenstein (the novel) Latitude Research The Jetsons Robot, Robot, and Hwang R.U.R. Blade Runner I, Robot (the movie) I, Robot (the short story collection) Metropolis Terminator Kindergarten Cop Stanford University Coursera Udacity Singularity Hub The Technological Society Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Star Wars Maker Faire Siva Vaidhyanthan HG Wells Kin Lane The New York Times The Awl The Wall Street Journal CNET O’Reilly Radar Copy & Paste Digital Digs TIME George Siemens Class of 1999 Wired MSNBC University of Akron
 The Hewlett Foundation Robocop Wikipedia Kaggle The Atlantic Google The Simpsons Luis von Ahm Robert Ambrogi’s Law Site Credits