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In a message dated 11/13/2005 10:54:11 AM Central Standard Time,
SandraDodd@... writes:

Well all that money they were spending on enrichment and giftedness can now
be spent on more programmed teaching programs where the teacher reads from
the
manual and no creativity is involved. Oh! Then they can hire all cheaper
teachers too. Minimum wage, and dispense with all that "master teacher
program" crap, because in fact the better the teacher, the less likely she
will be
to go along with the new order of education and will have to be disposed of
to
keep the peace.



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Robots. We only need robots. I think the techonology has come along to
make it possible, don't you?

Karen


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Pamela Sorooshian

On Nov 13, 2005, at 10:00 AM, tuckervill2@... wrote:

> Robots. We only need robots. I think the techonology has come
> along to
> make it possible, don't you?


I listened to an interview on the radio yesterday about artificial
intelligence and robots. Seems that there are two ways robots can
become "intelligent." One is a top-down method -- lines and lines of
computer programming giving the robot ALL the possible information it
could ever need to know. This is VERY limiting and nobody thinks this
is the direction that will really work, in the future, other than for
very limited purposes.
The other is building the ability to learn into the robot so that it
responds to "bumping into its environment" by creating its OWN
programming. This is the way real intelligence happens and the way
humans really learn, It is unpredictable and exciting.

UNSCHOOLED robots! YEAH!

-pam




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nellebelle

.>>>>>>>>>>>>>Robots. We only need robots. I think the technology has come along to
make it possible, don't you?>>>>>>>>>>>

If education were only a matter of acquiring facts, computer programs could do the job just fine.

Mary Ellen

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