Where's the "Learn This" Button?
Maria H. Andersen,
Ignite Great Lakes,
Aug 31, 2011
Video in the 'TED' or 'Idea City' mode, this time at the Ignite Great Lakes conference. talks about drinking information from the waterfall - "all this information is leaving our heads before it ever has a chance to stick there." So we become "digital hoarders," but we never go back to view what we've stored. So "we've become scuba divers in the murky waters of our brains." Education responds by using a tap to reduce the stream to a trickle. But we need to in some way "straddle" the pipes to create a new 'SOCRAIT' - "'soc' for 'social', 'ai' for artificial intelligence, and 'it' for 'information technology', a learning layer on the internet, and add a "learn this" button on everything that's out there. Yes - good idea. But the 'question-answer' format is awkward, and won't take you deeper than surface learning. But there's merit to the general idea, and much of what we've been working on here is intended to create the infrastructure for such a system.
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