Question #1:
What do you think was the main point Langdon Winner was trying to get across with his video satire, ‘The Automatic Professor Machine’?
I think the main point Langdon Winner was trying to get across with his video satire, ‘The Automatic Professor Machine’ was one to expose some of the forces underlying the over dependent on the use of digital technology in our educational system today, and also to make caricature of the those who over relied on the system. He was actually attacking and ridiculing human folly by the introduction of his APM. He said Edu-Sham has recognized some of the vital forces that are shaping education today, amongst which are commodification, globalization, privatization, and digital transformation. In exploiting these forces, he is soliciting for potential customers and investors in Edu-Sham’s new mechanism for delivering education products online. To achieve this, Winner said his company stands to drain the bloat from the $6000 billion education industry; level its expensive infrastructures; raze its antiquated guild approach to pedagogy, and get rid of its high cost, low production personnel, including librarians and professors with high wages and cushy lifestyles. He said his APM will be flexible, user-friendly, low-cost that will be cheaper than most colleges, just in time pacing and that the APM is the face of education tomorrow, without saying anything about its limitations and possible problems. From this, I think he was really concerned and condemning the over-reliance on the use of computer technology and the gradual elimination of teacher-students interactive. He was actually making caricature of the whole system, especially the problems and unemployment the introduction of banking ATM has caused the world. I believed he was equally very concerned about the cost, antiquated guide approach, the low production personnel and its inflexibility of relying on the computer technology alone.
Question #2:
Technology is playing an increasing role in education today (let's face it: we wouldn't be having this class otherwise!). State what you take to be advantage and one disadvantage to using more technology like computers in education.
The rapid development of technology has now become an influential component of learning pedagogy in today's educational system. There are many advantages and disadvantages in the use of computers in our schools today. One of the advantages of computer is that it provides the learners more independence from classrooms and allowed the option to work on their learning materials at any time of the day. It allows full time workers the opportunity to study at home at their convenient time in the evening while still working full time. This will invariably give the student learning motivation and sense of achievement. This will also reduce the learning stresses and anxieties well as provide room for repeated lessons as often as necessary.
Despite the advantages, there are however many disadvantages and limitations as well. Apart from the cost of the computers and its attendant problems, one of the most pronounced dis advantage of using a computer in today's educational system is the inability of the computer to handle unexpected situations being faced by the students. The computer is unable to deal with the student's unexpected study problems and responses to the student's questions immediately as the teachers would do. This is because the computer technology are not yet intelligent enough to fully interact effectively with the students.
What do you think was the main point Langdon Winner was trying to get across with his video satire, ‘The Automatic Professor Machine’?
I think the main point Langdon Winner was trying to get across with his video satire, ‘The Automatic Professor Machine’ was one to expose some of the forces underlying the over dependent on the use of digital technology in our educational system today, and also to make caricature of the those who over relied on the system. He was actually attacking and ridiculing human folly by the introduction of his APM. He said Edu-Sham has recognized some of the vital forces that are shaping education today, amongst which are commodification, globalization, privatization, and digital transformation. In exploiting these forces, he is soliciting for potential customers and investors in Edu-Sham’s new mechanism for delivering education products online. To achieve this, Winner said his company stands to drain the bloat from the $6000 billion education industry; level its expensive infrastructures; raze its antiquated guild approach to pedagogy, and get rid of its high cost, low production personnel, including librarians and professors with high wages and cushy lifestyles. He said his APM will be flexible, user-friendly, low-cost that will be cheaper than most colleges, just in time pacing and that the APM is the face of education tomorrow, without saying anything about its limitations and possible problems. From this, I think he was really concerned and condemning the over-reliance on the use of computer technology and the gradual elimination of teacher-students interactive. He was actually making caricature of the whole system, especially the problems and unemployment the introduction of banking ATM has caused the world. I believed he was equally very concerned about the cost, antiquated guide approach, the low production personnel and its inflexibility of relying on the computer technology alone.
Question #2:
Technology is playing an increasing role in education today (let's face it: we wouldn't be having this class otherwise!). State what you take to be advantage and one disadvantage to using more technology like computers in education.
The rapid development of technology has now become an influential component of learning pedagogy in today's educational system. There are many advantages and disadvantages in the use of computers in our schools today. One of the advantages of computer is that it provides the learners more independence from classrooms and allowed the option to work on their learning materials at any time of the day. It allows full time workers the opportunity to study at home at their convenient time in the evening while still working full time. This will invariably give the student learning motivation and sense of achievement. This will also reduce the learning stresses and anxieties well as provide room for repeated lessons as often as necessary.
Despite the advantages, there are however many disadvantages and limitations as well. Apart from the cost of the computers and its attendant problems, one of the most pronounced dis advantage of using a computer in today's educational system is the inability of the computer to handle unexpected situations being faced by the students. The computer is unable to deal with the student's unexpected study problems and responses to the student's questions immediately as the teachers would do. This is because the computer technology are not yet intelligent enough to fully interact effectively with the students.
1 comment:
YOu do a good job here figuring out what
Also, you're right to stress the indpendence offered by technology, which is somethign many people like about technology in education.
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