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Audrey Watters
October 22, 2015
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The Algorithmic Future of Education
Keynote from NWeLearn 2015
Audrey Watters
October 22, 2015
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The Algorithmic Future of Education Audrey Watters NWeLearn 2015 @audreywatters
I. Austerity
I. Austerity II. Automation
I. Austerity II. Automation III. Algorithms
“We are all auto-colonialized by the austerity” — Bruce Sterling
“The computer is now used to reinforce School’s ways” —
Seymour Papert
“We can reverse engineer the human brain” — Sebastian Thrun
“Think of it as a friendly robot-tutor in the sky”
— Jose Ferreira
“… a robot tutor that can semi read your mind”
— Jose Ferreira
“There must be an ‘industrial revolution’ in education” — Sidney
Pressey
None
“The effect on each student is … like a private
tutor” — B. F. Skinner
“The average student under tutoring was about 2 standard deviations
above…” — Benjamin Bloom
“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
“Essentially these were automated flash cards…” — Mark Urban-Lurain
“[Intelligent tutoring systems] are not well grounded in a model
of learning” — Ronni Rosenberg
“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
“The computer programming the child” — Seymour Papert
“A black box society” — Frank Pasquale
“The computer programming the child” — Seymour Papert