The future of learning?:
Quote: "At Sandia National Laboratories, new "smart" machines can accurately infer your intents and help you to take better decisions or avoid mistakes...Over the past five years a team led by Sandia cognitive psychologist Chris Forsythe has been developing cognitive machines that accurately infer user intent, remember experiences with users and allow users to call upon simulated experts to help them analyze situations and make decisions."
Comment: Artificial intelligence is "back in style"...but this time it's without the hype...and with results. It's bitter sweet for me when I read articles like this - on the one hand, I see the incredible potential to improve learning (though it's years away from wide spread use). On the other hand, learning is a vibrant, interactive, social process...and a part of me doesn't trust that organizations will make the right decisions in promoting balance. Look at the type of tools being purchased to "do elearning" - LMS' are teaching (and management) tools...not learning tools. They (LMS) are important...but their history is in creating control/organization (though, in fairness, some are beginning to add more communication/collaboration tools to their offerings - but I'm still convinced that LMS' need to collide with Groove to be functional for both teachers and learners - oh, and in the process, become easier to use).