Tag Archive For "machine learning"
To Reduce Plagiarism, Increase Joy, and Create Conditions for Learning that Sticks: Ask Students to Transform Content
Schools suited for the 21st century do not ask students to regurgitate content, but, instead, to transform it. What exactly does this mean? It means that students combine what they learn with their perspective, or their personality, or their aesthetics, or their creativity, or all of these, to produce something that has not existed before. …
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Machine Poets of the Apocalypse
A frontier in machine learning seeks to mimic human learning by assembling computers into teams to solve problems. This type of deep learning, called “reinforcement learning,” allows machines to acquire knowledge, take collective action with that knowledge, and observe the consequences on their world and on their teammates. This machine deep learning environment unsurprisingly mimics …
Teachers as Designers in The Coming Machine Age
The emergence of blended learning, ed tech, and online secondary schools might cause educators to wonder what their role might be in the future, when machines rule the world.
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Three: Ending Well(If you haven’t read part one, on establishing purpose, or part two, on facilitating well, I’d [keep reading...]
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Two: Teaching With Generous Authority(If you haven’t read part one, about establishing purpose, consider starting there.) After [keep reading...]
Why Teachers Should Consider Their Classes “Gatherings”Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, a book that, as the subtitle suggests, takes up the subject of [keep reading...]