Are We Training Our Students to Be Robots?

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2015/05/07/students-robots.html

by jessaustin • 11 years ago

3 1 11 years ago

"Personalized learning is, somewhat ironically, far more socialist than it may first appear. You can’t “personalize” technology without building models that are deeply dependent on others. In other words, it is all about creating networks of people in a hyper-individualized world. It’s a strange hybrid of neoliberal and socialist ideologies."

This is off the main point of the article, but I really dislike the equating of creating networks of people with socialism. I am a fan of free markets/capitalism. Markets are all about people working together, building organizations, and trading with each other. Somehow not wanting to allocate resources via a top-down government mechanism has been equated with favoring ulta-individualism, which is not the case for most free marketers I know.

Are We Training Our Students to Be Robots?

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