Education as the meta-problem: Opportunities for Technology R&D

Educationasthemeta-problem:OpportunitiesforTechnology

R&D

XavierOchoaEscuela SuperiorPolitécnica delLitoral

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Problems…wegot’em

Solutions…peoplecreatethem

Harderproblems?... betterpeople!

Educationhelpsustogetbetteratsolvingproblems

UnderstanddifferentaspectsoftheproblemUsemoreadvancedtechnologyCollaboratewithotherdisciplinesManagemorecomplexinformation

…Betterourselves

But...Educationis(really)hard

NotkillingcreativityDeeplearningLearntolearnMassification

LifelonglearningInclusion

…

Ifwecanimprove educationwehelptoaccelerate

theproductionofsolutionstoalltheotherproblems

“Gettingbetteratgettingbetter”

ErikDuval

1965-2016

Educationthroughmostofhumanhistory

Eveningalaxyfarfaraway…

Educationaftertheindustrialrevolution

Educationafterthedigitalrevolution

Thecurrentneedsofthesocietyhasonlyaccentuatedtheproblem

Critical– thinkingCommunicationskills

MasteringnewknowledgeandskillsHorizontalstructures

Snowflake

people

Cookie-cutter

education

Wediditbecauseweneededit

Butwhatwastheeffect?

Bloom, B. (1984). "The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring", Educational Researcher, 13:6(4-16).

Imagineyourtop 2%

students

Nowimagine50%of

your studentswiththesameperformance

Thatisaheftypricetopay!Performancevs.Efficiency

Technologycouldhelpsolvetheproblemthatitcreated

Applyingtechnologytoimproveteachingandlearning

LearningTechnologies

LearningTechnologies

Yeah,butwehavebeendoingitforawhilenow

Whatisnew?

Nowwegenerateanenormousamountofdatafromeducationalinteractions

Teachers/Students/Administratorsareready

Ourautomaticprocessingcapacityisbecomingmoresophisticatedeveryday

LearningTechnologiesareabouttogothroughaparadigmshift!

Thishashappened manytimesbefore…

ThisrevolutionsneedsagreatamountofR&Dindifferent

technologiesThechallengeisoutthere

Somedirectionsandexamples

AugmentingtheTeacher

Plickers

Lantern– EPFL(CHILIgroup)

7Abelardo Pardo. Stepping out of the Box. Analytics outside the LMS11Abelardo Pardo. Stepping out of the Box. Analytics outside the LMS

11Abelardo Pardo. Stepping out of the Box. Analytics outside the LMS

11Abelardo Pardo. Stepping out of the Box. Analytics outside the LMS

AugmentingtheStudent

http://www.itap.purdue.edu/studio/signals/

http://www.itap.purdue.edu/studio/signals/

AugmentingtheContentandTools

Ibook Author

EasyMultimediaContentCreation

TinkerLamp

Dual-T

EPFL

InteractiveTabletop

CTI– ESPOL

Allofthesearepiecesofasolution

Wheredowego?Wherewillwebein10years

Onelaptopperchild

Onelaptop tutorperchild

(Morethan)One(virtual)tutorperchild

Aglimpseofthefuture

(Cognitive)IntelligentTutoringSystems

(Affective)IntelligentTutoringSystems

(Kinestetic)IntelligentTutoringSystem

BUT…

Whatwillbetheuseofthistechnology?

Conclusions

Wedonothavetochoosebetweenefficiencyandefficacy

Mass-PersonalizationofEducation

Educationprovidealargesetofchallengestotestthevalueof

newtechnologiesHowmytechnologycould

improveeducation

EducationIS themeta-problem

Let’sgetbetteratgettingbetter

LACLO2017– LaPlata,Argentina

Octubre

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