One area that has been evolving, but could still use further improvement is the area of education. As mentioned in As The Future Catches You, education will become an increasingly important differentiator not just at the individual level, but at the national level. Both societal and personal issues impact one's ability to improve their knowledge.
A possible solution would be to utilize technology to aid, augment, or even possibly replace current learning technologies. One potential solution is to use intelligent agents as part of an agent-based tutoring, potentially within a synchronous learning environment, to support learning. The agents could be used to tailor and tune content delivery to each individual based on individual learning strengths and weaknesses. In addition to tailored content delivery, the agents could facilitate collaboration between parties involved in similar learning experiences.
Advancing this technology could make education more accessible to individuals regardless of their personal circumstances. It also has the potential to provide an element of consistency as the standard for knowledge that should be learned in a particular subject area.
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I agree education could stand a healthy dose of innovative technology. Our current methodology/techniques/technology for teaching does not leverage individual student learning rates or methods. Technology is needed to move the learning process into the modern era.
Check out what Paul Allen is funding at Project Halo. They are trying very hard to do a real AI education system. I think it has great potential based on what they have done so far
nigel
Interesting research on Project Halo at the Research Channel!
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=3558
After reading the paper at the following link, I wondered if a system like this would displace educators? Instead, I think that it is more likely that we will shift from focusing on mundane content and place greater attention on creating and using dynamic learning environments that stimulate creativity and innovation.
http://www.ai.sri.com/pubs/files/1109.pdf
I attended the ISTE NECC conference in June on Technology in Education and was gratified to see over 16,000 educators (many from K-12) embracing the use of technology and new tools for classroom and online education.
Blogging, Web 2.0 tools and Second Life had their own cafes/lounge areas, Playgrounds (with walk-in tutorials) and numerous seminar sessions for everyone to enjoy. *cheers*
ISTE has at least four islands in Second Life and at these locations, holds seminars, workshops and webinars on how educators are using these technologies.
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