Comments on: The Learning Machine http://www.historiann.com/2012/05/23/the-learning-machine/ History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present Mon, 20 May 2013 17:15:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: خلود http://www.historiann.com/2012/05/23/the-learning-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-1260924 خلود Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:21:18 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=18857#comment-1260924 "You know human beings learn best and most from other human beings. That is all part of being human. And we learn best from people who really care about us- people we really like. It is you I like ...it is not the things you wear It not is the way you do your hair...but it is you I like The way you are right now...the way down deep inside you Not the things that hide you...Not your toys, there just besides you But it is you I like... Every part of you- your skin, your eyes, your feelings Whether old or new I hope that you will remeber... Even when you are feeling blue That is you I like It is you...yourself It is you...it is you I like And that is true" Forgive me if I transcribed any part wrong. “You know human beings learn best and most from other human beings. That is all part of being human. And we learn best from people who really care about us- people we really like.

It is you I like …it is not the things you wear
It not is the way you do your hair…but it is you I like
The way you are right now…the way down deep inside you
Not the things that hide you…Not your toys, there just besides you
But it is you I like…
Every part of you- your skin, your eyes, your feelings
Whether old or new
I hope that you will remeber…
Even when you are feeling blue
That is you I like
It is you…yourself
It is you…it is you I like
And that is true”

Forgive me if I transcribed any part wrong.

]]> By: Comradde PhysioProffe http://www.historiann.com/2012/05/23/the-learning-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-1021158 Comradde PhysioProffe Wed, 23 May 2012 22:38:35 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=18857#comment-1021158 <i>Briefly, we should adapt technology to enhance education; we need better means than we have.</i> What is wrong with the means we currently have for education, and that have proven their utility over thousands of years? Briefly, we should adapt technology to enhance education; we need better means than we have.

What is wrong with the means we currently have for education, and that have proven their utility over thousands of years?

]]> By: Indyanna http://www.historiann.com/2012/05/23/the-learning-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-1021133 Indyanna Wed, 23 May 2012 21:14:48 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=18857#comment-1021133 The kind of machine *I* would have enjoyed learning from back then would have been something along the lines of a nineteenth century hand-cranked wooden cider press. A machine that actually *does* something, and that doesn't start you off with a scrolling screenful of worthless knowledge such as "loading applications," "verifying parameters," "aligning utility modes," ad nausemu. Who the EFF cares what a machine purports to be doo-ING while you're waiting for it to actually DO something? Imagine if you got in your car and turned the key and a screen said "checking pavement variables," "determining signage visibility factors" while you waited to hear that throaty roar from the engine? Any machine that doesn't work too fast to have time to "talk" to you is going in the river where I am. So load Rogers and run the tape, just keep the ING stuff back in the trailer. If the geeks get to "speak," the terrorists win. The kind of machine *I* would have enjoyed learning from back then would have been something along the lines of a nineteenth century hand-cranked wooden cider press. A machine that actually *does* something, and that doesn’t start you off with a scrolling screenful of worthless knowledge such as “loading applications,” “verifying parameters,” “aligning utility modes,” ad nausemu. Who the EFF cares what a machine purports to be doo-ING while you’re waiting for it to actually DO something? Imagine if you got in your car and turned the key and a screen said “checking pavement variables,” “determining signage visibility factors” while you waited to hear that throaty roar from the engine? Any machine that doesn’t work too fast to have time to “talk” to you is going in the river where I am. So load Rogers and run the tape, just keep the ING stuff back in the trailer. If the geeks get to “speak,” the terrorists win.

]]> By: koshembos http://www.historiann.com/2012/05/23/the-learning-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-1021095 koshembos Wed, 23 May 2012 19:36:41 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=18857#comment-1021095 Proposition 13 and verklempt, what will come next? I would treat Mr Rogers word carefully. Human lean from human but can we have an indirect connection. After all, philosophers don't study with Plato. Briefly, we should adapt technology to enhance education; we need better means than we have. Try to think of the machine as a human devised tool help, not hindering, to enjoy field trips. Proposition 13 and verklempt, what will come next? I would treat Mr Rogers word carefully. Human lean from human but can we have an indirect connection. After all, philosophers don’t study with Plato.

Briefly, we should adapt technology to enhance education; we need better means than we have. Try to think of the machine as a human devised tool help, not hindering, to enjoy field trips.

]]> By: Ally http://www.historiann.com/2012/05/23/the-learning-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-1021091 Ally Wed, 23 May 2012 19:26:53 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=18857#comment-1021091 The world would be a much better place if there was more people like Fred Rogers... We had someone pretend to be Mr. Rogers for a children's sermon recently, and NONE of them knew who Mr. Rogers was! That's what really made me cry! I'm all for coming up with other educational programming, but you can't convince me that children wouldn't still watch Mr. Rogers... And Reading Rainbow for that matter! (you can tell I'm a child of the 80s) The world would be a much better place if there was more people like Fred Rogers… We had someone pretend to be Mr. Rogers for a children’s sermon recently, and NONE of them knew who Mr. Rogers was! That’s what really made me cry! I’m all for coming up with other educational programming, but you can’t convince me that children wouldn’t still watch Mr. Rogers… And Reading Rainbow for that matter! (you can tell I’m a child of the 80s)

]]> By: Historiann http://www.historiann.com/2012/05/23/the-learning-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-1021053 Historiann Wed, 23 May 2012 17:14:35 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=18857#comment-1021053 Prop 13 and "taxpayers' revolts" + years of other disinvestment in public education + the internets = Welcome to the Learning Machine, at least for all of you proles who can't get into and afford elite private schools. I'd like to Make Real the notion of an entire community interested in what's going on in their schools, in addition to being excited to help facilitate field trips for schoolchildren and otherwise support their educations. Too bad that's mostly in the realm of Make Believe. Prop 13 and “taxpayers’ revolts” + years of other disinvestment in public education + the internets = Welcome to the Learning Machine, at least for all of you proles who can’t get into and afford elite private schools.

I’d like to Make Real the notion of an entire community interested in what’s going on in their schools, in addition to being excited to help facilitate field trips for schoolchildren and otherwise support their educations. Too bad that’s mostly in the realm of Make Believe.

]]> By: quixote http://www.historiann.com/2012/05/23/the-learning-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-1021052 quixote Wed, 23 May 2012 17:04:23 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=18857#comment-1021052 How did we get from <em>there</em> to <em>here</em>? How? Really. How, how, how? How did we get from there to here? How? Really. How, how, how?

]]> By: Historiann http://www.historiann.com/2012/05/23/the-learning-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-1021049 Historiann Wed, 23 May 2012 17:01:22 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=18857#comment-1021049 I'm glad I'm not the only middle-aged person verklempt whenever I hear Fred Rogers sing. I’m glad I’m not the only middle-aged person verklempt whenever I hear Fred Rogers sing.

]]> By: Comradde PhysioProffe http://www.historiann.com/2012/05/23/the-learning-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-1021008 Comradde PhysioProffe Wed, 23 May 2012 15:49:38 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=18857#comment-1021008 When that music started playing at the beginning, I started crying. Such memories. When that music started playing at the beginning, I started crying. Such memories.

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