The Algorithmic Future of Education

Keynote from NWeLearn 2015

Transcript

1. The Algorithmic Future of Education Audrey Watters NWeLearn 2015 @audreywatters
2. I. Austerity
3. I. Austerity II. Automation
4. I. Austerity II. Automation III. Algorithms
5. “We are all auto-colonialized by the austerity” — Bruce Sterling
6. “The computer is now used to reinforce School’s ways” — Seymour Papert
7. “We can reverse engineer the human brain” — Sebastian Thrun
8. “Think of it as a friendly robot-tutor in the sky” — Jose Ferreira
9. “… a robot tutor that can semi read your mind” — Jose Ferreira
10. “There must be an ‘industrial revolution’ in education” — Sidney Pressey
12. “The effect on each student is … like a private tutor” — B. F. Skinner
13. “The average student under tutoring was about 2 standard deviations above…” — Benjamin Bloom
14. “One can predict that in a few more years millions of school children will have access to what Philip of Macedon's son Alexander enjoyed as a royal prerogative: the personal services of a tutor as well-informed and responsive as Aristotle.” — Patrick Suppes
15. “Essentially these were automated flash cards…” — Mark Urban-Lurain
16. “[Intelligent tutoring systems] are not well grounded in a model of learning” — Ronni Rosenberg
17. “Most of what computer assisted instructional systems can evaluate are student computational skills, which are exactly the kinds of things that computers are much better at doing than human beings” — Justin Reich
18. “The computer programming the child” — Seymour Papert
19. “A black box society” — Frank Pasquale
20. “The computer programming the child” — Seymour Papert