Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Personalized Learning Meets AI With Watson Classroom

Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

"Generally speaking," says Erin Gohl, in personalized learning, "reducing people to a set of numbers overlooks so many factors that are integral to understanding a student, but explainable only as narrative comments." Rather, you need something that can brige the gap between words and numbers, for example, IBM Watson. Watson classroom is being positioned as an assistant, not a replacement, for teachers. " Watson Classroom is not a teacher nor does it replace the teacher, contrary to popular myths about AI. It is the aforementioned teacher's assistant, data warehouse, personal researcher, note-taker, and constant collaborator brought into the classroom and accessible at a teacher's fingertips via a mobile tablet."

Today: 1 Total: 11 [Direct link] [Share]


Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca

Copyright 2024
Last Updated: Nov 11, 2024 08:36 a.m.

Canadian Flag Creative Commons License.

Force:yes