Ask HN: Future of Education: Which SciFi setting resonates?
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I think education is going to evolve in this fashion:
1. Education boards will realize that technology needs to be better embraced so they increase tech funding and begin enhancing classrooms with AI.
2. One particular AI software outperforms the rest and becomes the de facto education tool.
3. The software becomes advanced enough that human teachers become supplementary. Most educators are laid off but the best of them start careers as tutors for wealthy children.
4. The company who developed the software receives permission to begin rapidly constructing "campuses" -- circular smart-cities that provide everything necessary to nurture the next generation of academics. Using the metrics their software has provided, they pick the most capable students and offer them permanent residency. For students below a certain age, the campuses censor communication with the outside world, fearing that they might be negatively influenced.
5. The campuses become the fastest innovators of the modern world by hoarding all the talent. They become so powerful that each campus houses its own military unit composed of a robotics and cyber intelligence division.
6. Governments around the world become puppet states as the campuses continue expanding. The campuses are officially recognized as the most powerful political entities.
7. Eventually, we're either wiped out by some genius psychopath who exploits a security flaw in a system, or we start enhancing our bodies biologically/technologically until we're no longer human.
Anyone know of a book that describes the above?
1. Education boards will realize that technology needs to be better embraced so they increase tech funding and begin enhancing classrooms with AI.
2. One particular AI software outperforms the rest and becomes the de facto education tool.
3. The software becomes advanced enough that human teachers become supplementary. Most educators are laid off but the best of them start careers as tutors for wealthy children.
4. The company who developed the software receives permission to begin rapidly constructing "campuses" -- circular smart-cities that provide everything necessary to nurture the next generation of academics. Using the metrics their software has provided, they pick the most capable students and offer them permanent residency. For students below a certain age, the campuses censor communication with the outside world, fearing that they might be negatively influenced.
5. The campuses become the fastest innovators of the modern world by hoarding all the talent. They become so powerful that each campus houses its own military unit composed of a robotics and cyber intelligence division.
6. Governments around the world become puppet states as the campuses continue expanding. The campuses are officially recognized as the most powerful political entities.
7. Eventually, we're either wiped out by some genius psychopath who exploits a security flaw in a system, or we start enhancing our bodies biologically/technologically until we're no longer human.
Anyone know of a book that describes the above?
I recently saw a studio ghibli spin-off movie on Netflix called Mary and the witch’s flower(based on 70s, my little broomstick by Mary Stewart)...it’s about a girls accidental discovery of a magic school. Anyways..one of the founders is Dr.Dee(Elizabethan mathematician/alchemist/magician)...and I thought it would be pretty cool to have a school where holographic representations of various historical characters or scientists or animals can teach classes and concepts.
Gamification of education won’t be a bad idea. I mean..we could do that, right? And it’s scalable.
Gamification of education won’t be a bad idea. I mean..we could do that, right? And it’s scalable.
No. But you must write about it.
ETA: I especially like #4.
ETA: I especially like #4.
Primer is more likely to become than the interconnected mind scenario.
Although Neural link by Elon Musk may be modified to create such interconnection.
Still the idea behind primer is doable. Disclaimer: I am building primer.
Although Neural link by Elon Musk may be modified to create such interconnection.
Still the idea behind primer is doable. Disclaimer: I am building primer.
Sounds interesting. Can you explain Primer?
I am on mobile so pasting an earlier answer.
I am working on Primer. Basically a bot that makes it much easier to learn "difficult things" on your own. Here is a screenshot : https://imgur.com/a/E5Kw54P The screenshot has changed a lot by now though.
I have been working on this, alone, for last almost two year. I have iterated more than 15 times. One time, I was trying to do non-linear twine[0] based interface. Was pretty complicated. Right now, this is the version I am most satisfied and excited for. Also, it took some while to create a CMS from scratch for this one.
Here is why it is cool.
0. Primer teaches you in a conversational way. I understand video based MOOCs are new norms, but conversational way makes user better focused towards learning. It also makes it easier to revise, recall and resume from where you last left.
1. Primer will provide you notes in form of Tufte-Latex Books[1]. The way it works is that there is already a template for each course and when the user completes the course, his/her response accounts generates tex Code along with the previous templates and results in personalized books. The books authors name is the username.
2. Primer enforces spaced repetition. Not only it teaches you something, it also reminds you to revise after certain intervals. Although Anki export is a desirable feature, I did not have the energy to look into it now, but it is definitely in the roadmap. Primer takes responsibility of your learning.
3. Primer tracks time spent on your courses. Good tool for homeschoolers.
4. Primer courses are versioned. Primer courses improve based on feedback. If you get stuck at a course, it is improved so that, next time it feels easier to understand. And often times, we will screw up, so it is there for that too. But importantly, courses should have pretty iteration times. This is a major advantage of text based courses.
5. Primer based courses take a fraction of time to complete than Video-based courses.
6. Last, my favorite. It makes difficult things easier to learn. Although, achieving this feature to a practical extent will take another year or so, but still feels good to have the potential. Suppose, you want to learn how to build a spaceship. There is a ton of things you need to learn before you can even begin to learn about spaceships and rockets. Primer ensures that you have understood the prerequisites before you start doing something. All these courses are present on Primer itself.
I am not good with deadlines. But I can assure that I am pretty close to completion.
These are the initial courses to be offered by Mid 2019.
Tentative Tracks: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Fantastic ML Papers and how to implement them, Teach yourself Computer Science, Fantastic CS Papers and how to understand them, Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.
To follow updates: https://tinyletter.com/primerlabs/
[0]: http://twinery.org/ [1]: https://github.com/Tufte-LaTeX/tufte-latex
I am working on Primer. Basically a bot that makes it much easier to learn "difficult things" on your own. Here is a screenshot : https://imgur.com/a/E5Kw54P The screenshot has changed a lot by now though.
I have been working on this, alone, for last almost two year. I have iterated more than 15 times. One time, I was trying to do non-linear twine[0] based interface. Was pretty complicated. Right now, this is the version I am most satisfied and excited for. Also, it took some while to create a CMS from scratch for this one.
Here is why it is cool.
0. Primer teaches you in a conversational way. I understand video based MOOCs are new norms, but conversational way makes user better focused towards learning. It also makes it easier to revise, recall and resume from where you last left.
1. Primer will provide you notes in form of Tufte-Latex Books[1]. The way it works is that there is already a template for each course and when the user completes the course, his/her response accounts generates tex Code along with the previous templates and results in personalized books. The books authors name is the username.
2. Primer enforces spaced repetition. Not only it teaches you something, it also reminds you to revise after certain intervals. Although Anki export is a desirable feature, I did not have the energy to look into it now, but it is definitely in the roadmap. Primer takes responsibility of your learning.
3. Primer tracks time spent on your courses. Good tool for homeschoolers.
4. Primer courses are versioned. Primer courses improve based on feedback. If you get stuck at a course, it is improved so that, next time it feels easier to understand. And often times, we will screw up, so it is there for that too. But importantly, courses should have pretty iteration times. This is a major advantage of text based courses.
5. Primer based courses take a fraction of time to complete than Video-based courses.
6. Last, my favorite. It makes difficult things easier to learn. Although, achieving this feature to a practical extent will take another year or so, but still feels good to have the potential. Suppose, you want to learn how to build a spaceship. There is a ton of things you need to learn before you can even begin to learn about spaceships and rockets. Primer ensures that you have understood the prerequisites before you start doing something. All these courses are present on Primer itself.
I am not good with deadlines. But I can assure that I am pretty close to completion.
These are the initial courses to be offered by Mid 2019.
Tentative Tracks: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Fantastic ML Papers and how to implement them, Teach yourself Computer Science, Fantastic CS Papers and how to understand them, Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.
To follow updates: https://tinyletter.com/primerlabs/
[0]: http://twinery.org/ [1]: https://github.com/Tufte-LaTeX/tufte-latex
Is this like the Feynman Technique or like..how you say..formalized education?
I have incorporated Feyman technique also. At the end of each topic, you will have to summarise what you think you understand.
This is inclined more towards Socratic method of learning by questions and answering.
I had to figure out somewhere in the middle where the questions seems relevant and to the topic.
This is inclined more towards Socratic method of learning by questions and answering.
I had to figure out somewhere in the middle where the questions seems relevant and to the topic.
Thanks! I will check for updates. The topics of learning seem ambitious and relevant to our times. I wish you the very best!
Thank you.
Self organized learning classrooms - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upg8LlJZtas
Or
2. Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
Any others?