Thursday, August 7th, 2008

“Oh, so they have teaching on computers now!”

with apologies to Homer S. in the title…
CNN has this article on a PhD student who has created a teaching robot that will respond to your facial expressions.
“Classical ITS typically have a somewhat rigid architecture of ‘first I ask a question; then I wait for a response; then I talk some more; then I wait [...]

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Overcoming technology barriers

I think we have violated a couple of these ideas already. By we I mean Gates Beatles. And by violated I mean the small fast projects (no. 4). ACE & School of Tomorrow were big broad projects that included many students but not many teachers. It would be nice if we could move some of [...]