[community] Bill Gates - personalized learning within a decade (Reddit AMA, Mar 8)

Wed Mar 9 19:13:25 UTC 2016

Hi Jon, Andrei, Roland,

Thank you very much for the discussion. 

The mother and daughter relationship video that I share is not totally parallel to a classroom of K12 in the sense of the situation. It is about how education still works in poverty or inadequate.  It emphasized the spirit of education rather in class or not in a class with no boundaries of ages, countries gender and identity. 

I am not trying to make Bill Gate and technology evil. 
But, I don't trust the spirit of Microsoft when I used the system. He needs to make a stunning improvement on his products to impress me. Education not just leads in the classroom. Education can be conducted in good Design as well. I learnt a lot by using Mac and Google.

Another thing that I don't trust is the cameras in the classroom. It can be a political tool for the authority easily when they are widely used in class. Nobody wants to be tracked with the cameras when you work. 
How horrible when the camera observes most of the time in your life even in class? 

Yes. We need to know the performances of ourselves when we were studying. But, education is more than that. If it is just about results, I prefer to studying home alone. And, the Google would pick more stuff for me to know base on my interests. I can track my result by taking examination online. 

From my point of view,  natural communication and resonation between people in school are much more important.  Going to school is the chance for one to meet people face to face in real. Please put down the camera.

For sport, math and chemistry classes, this system might work out.
These subjects usually have absolute answers in general. 

For language classes, this system makes the whole class nervous and embarrass when the camera exists. 

For literature, arts and philosophy classes, this system is nonsense, because most learning results are uncountable. 

I agree with Andrei's saying,'Interfaces are faceless in many cases with no focus/capability around individual aptitudes.'. 

I wish you guys' real experiences in the school are helpful for the integration of technology in the Education system. Real scenery is very important for a design. 

Vik 
vik.drawwithme.org

> On 8 Mar, 2016, at 5:11 pm, Vik <aseedof at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear Jon.,
> 
> I really don’t like Bill Gates’s involvement on education. I don’t have the trust. 
> I feel it is more like a big business plan making everybody like a cybot. 
> After I watched his TED talk, I really afraid of the classroom. 
> https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_teachers_need_real_feedback <https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_teachers_need_real_feedback>
> 
> Education should be like this, not like that. 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPSNguvsFk0 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPSNguvsFk0>
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> 
> Vik 
> vik.drawwithme.org <http://vik.drawwithme.org/>
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>> On 8 Mar, 2016, at 1:53 pm, Hung, Jonathan <jhung at ocadu.ca <mailto:jhung at ocadu.ca>> wrote:
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>> Bill Gates is doing an AMA (“Ask me anything”) session on Reddit and had this to say when asked:
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>> "You have previously said that, through organizations like Khan Academy and Wikipedia and the Internet in general, getting access to knowledge is now easier than ever. While that is certainly true, K-12 education seems to have stayed frozen in time.
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>> How do you think the school system will or should change in the decades to come?"
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>> His response:
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>> "I agree that our schools have not improved as much as we want them to. There are a lot of great teachers but we don't do enough to figure out what they do so well and make sure others benefit from that. Most teachers get very little feedback about what they do well and what they need to improve including tools that let them see what the exemplars are doing.
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>> Technology is starting to improve education. Unfortunately so far it is mostly the motivated students who have benefited from it. I think we will get tools like personalized learning to all students in the next decade. [Emphasis mine]
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>> A lot of the issue is helping kids stay engaged. If they don't feel the material is relevant or they don't have a sense of their own ability they can check out too easily. The technology has not done enough to help with this yet."
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>> See the actual quote here:
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/49jkhn/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/d0s9ids <https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/49jkhn/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/d0s9ids>
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>> - Jon.
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