A writer for The Guardian warns that artificial intelligence will be taking over many jobs that we previously assumed were safe from automation. Like teaching.
We’re still in the dark ages of what artificial intelligence will be able to do. Sure, we have AlphaGo being able to make “beautiful” moves in the game of Go, and IBM’s Watson is a Jeopardy champ, but they are just the beginning.
Computers and AI will replace teachers, and it will be teaching. Picture the best teacher you know. One that is empathetic and kind, but can also set boundaries when needed. The teacher that knows exactly what questions to ask. What if you could replicate that teacher and give every student 1 on 1 access to the best teacher? That’s what’s going to happen, and it is scary.
She’d laid out the assignment clearly, but student after student was calling her over for help. They were all getting the same error message: The program couldn’t find their files. Garland thought it would be an easy fix. She asked each student where they’d saved their project. Could they be on the desktop? Perhaps in…
But the focus on code has left a potentially bigger opportunity largely unexplored. In the past, people were educated, and learned job skills, and that was enough for a lifetime. Now, with technology changing rapidly and new job areas emerging and transforming constantly, that’s no longer the case. We need to focus on making lightweight,…
His parents were tolerant of their making noise and rearranging the furniture. One summer he even dug up the backyard for a minigolf course. The design process was a matter of trial and error: Could he use soda cans to make the holes? What path would the ball take as it hit various obstacles? Behind…
This month, I saw an amazing idea posted on Twitter by one of my favorite edtech gurus, Eric Curts. His thoughts were to use Google Keep to provide students feedback within Google Docs. This idea inspired me to think how I could use Google Keep to make the process of adding standards to my lesson plans less cumbersome….
Veolia Water Technologies, a transnational water treatment specialist firm, is partnering with a company called Fieldbit to bring Augmented Reality to the plant floor. Source: Augmented Reality is making industrial work more productive | Ars Technica Augment reality is the act of laying computer graphics onto the viewable world in realtime. If you’ve played Pokemon…
…if you pick Customer Engagement then the Digitized Solutions will follow to match what your customer wants. An example of starting from the other side is Apple, which followed Henry Ford’s mantra of not asking the people what they want (“people would have asked for faster horses”), but rather built the musicplayingtelephonecameraPC for a public…
