After reading Chapter 4 post a comment here. Include two things you learned and one thing you still wonder about in Chapter 4.
I was surprised by this quote, “we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the
21st century—it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today’s rate).” I agree that progress is happening at a phenomenal rate… But this is beyond comprehension.
I agree with this quote by Sir Ken Robinson, when he argues that “our educational system at all levels is designed to stifle some important forms of creativity.” Worksheets, coloring within the lines, even walking in a straight line, may tend to stifle creativity, but without some organization there would be chaos. So how the big question is, how can we encourage creativity without creating chaos?
After reading this quote; “If we understand the human mind, we begin to understand
what we can do with educational technology.” (Herbert A.Simon)
I wonder how I can use the tools at hand to make learning more meaningful for students.
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I found the Definitions of Intelligence to be really interesting. First, I did not ecen realize there was a title of 'futurist'. Although it does seem to be a position that could have great things to offer. As we are almost getting ahead of ourselves, technology is advancing faster than we can truly comprehend what is happening because of it. With this kind of position, one can evaluate the effects and what changes may need to be made for society to respond better to such advances. Ray Kurzwell's Definitions of Intelligence that technological change is exponential, contrary
to the common-sense "intuitive linear" view. And the relationship of the progression rate I thought was incredible.
Sir Ken Robinson's agruement is completely true and there is such a sensitivity when dealing with creativity. So much so that the more creativity is limited, the more desire it has to break the barriers anyway, therefor it almost seems like a lost cause. Such as with the saying 'rules are meant to be broken' would this mean we must tighten the rules so much so, as to expect the next level of difiancy as what we ultimately hope the limitations to be. Must we stay one step ahead by implying additional structures with the assumption they will be broken anyway, but so long as we have enough barriers, they can't get too out of control?
This is what I wonder about, Ray Kurzweil writes, “Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence.” Well then what does that say about the machines creator?
When I was in high school, I took a PSAT; I didn’t know what that was the only thing I knew is that everyone was taking it so I felt like I had to as well. I asked my counselor and he told me it was a way to measure intelligence. I was never happy with that test and I hated it, I thought it was incorrect means of measuring something so complex. So in high school, ASU required that I take the SAT, I answered every question wrong on purpose and achieved a whopping score of 400. Keep in mind that you get 200 points for putting down your name on the Math section and another 200 for doing the same in the English section. Take that SAT! Anyways, in the reading, I found a new definition for intelligence.
Intelligence is a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, and learn from experience.
“Of course, my calculator has no “understanding” of what a square root is.” I did not know that computers did not know what chess was. I did not know that my calculator did not know what the area under the curve meant. This was new to me, shocking actually. I always thought they were programmed to know and understand what we were inputting.
Stephanie here. I still cannot figure out how to post this without putting it in as anonymous. Anyways, here it is.
I found it interesting that computer are not "very smart". Only approximately .01 human-brainpower. I guess because computers can do so much it just seems that they would be considered "smart".
The components of human intelligence is a combination of our ability to learn, ask questions, solve problems, speculate on future outcomes of decisions and be creative in all of these four.
With all the advances in computers these days and how far technology has gotten us, I wonder if some day there will be a computer that will have feelings?
I learned that human intelligence and machine intelligence (artificial intelligence) are not the same thing. I always thought they where the same because machines or computer can only do what they are programmed to do, I do not understand why it is called artificial intelligence when the "intelligence" is not artificial it comes from the creator or programmer.
I found it interesting that some machines and programs can out-perform humans such as calculators.
I still wonder why machine intellegence is called artificial intelligence.
Hi. It's Michelle. I forgot my password so I'll just be anonymous. :)
I really liked the comment on the calculator. It may get a correct answer very quickly but it doesn't know anything about the problem. We has humans, though it may take us longer to figure out, know about the problem.
The heuristic procedure is very interesting. I guess I've never really thought about it. We do things on a day to day basis the way we should but in an instance, if someone does something un-expected there can be serious consequences.
I still wonder if computers are going to take over more and more jobs as they become more "intelligent."
Hi there
as far as the quote “our educational system at all levels is designed to stifle some important forms of creativity,” goes it's pretty frustrating and even a little irritating that this even occurs. but at the same time i can kind of see why it happens. i think that the uniformity of school exists to try and keep things general for everybody at first. by keeping things general in the beginning you tend to take all the information you get at face value until you start to become comfortable with how things are working. then from there you may strive for something more 'creative' and push to break free from the boundaries.
so maybe the rules and regulations stifle certain important types of creativity, so the individual can pursue and achieve their creative self by breaking the rules, if that makes any sense. it gives a sort of independence by breaking the rules or going outside of the system and figuring out something you like by yourself. the person gets more out of discovering something on their own rather than being spoon fed.
Katie ... I always thought that the computer was a brainiac. But after reading the chapter I found the computer is only as smart as the user. The operator of the computer must know the information to input to receive a true output from the computer. The calculator is a different story. The user must still put in the information but it is able to do the calculations that may be too hard for people.
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