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Re: Man vs. Computer: Who Wins the Essay-Scoring Challenge?

By on April 14, 2012 in Artificial Learning, Capital Value Case, Challenge of Change, Technology for Learning

Re: Man vs. Computer: Who Wins the Essay-Scoring Challenge? From Education Week: Curriculum Matters 4-13-2012 “The results demonstrated that 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,” says the study. This is fascinating. Artificial intelligence has already [...]

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Re: We Can’t Teach Students to Love Reading

By on April 4, 2012 in Children of the Code, Comments on other sites, Technology for Learning

Re: the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Article: “We Can’t Teach Students to Love Reading” by Alan Jacobs, professor of English at Wheaton College. An important missing distinction: Most of the people who ‘love’ reading began loving it when they were children. In the past few decades there has been an unprecedented decline in how lovable reading is for most children [...]

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Re: Who really benefits from putting high-tech gadgets in classrooms?

By on February 6, 2012 in Capital Value Case, Comments on other sites, Technology for Learning

Re: the LA Times piece on the dubious promise of education technology… In 1991, In an article for the California School Boards Journal discussing the future of Learning and Educational Technology I wrote: “Systems capable of totally transforming our relationship with information, of providing a new (learner) interface to recorded knowledge, will ultimately prove to be [...]

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