Edward F. Berger – Thoughts and Reflections

Tag: AI and Education

  • WILL YOUR CHILDREN SURVIVE ALIEN INTELLIGENCE?

    —

    by

    EdwardBerger

    For more than a decade many educators have become aware that our educational systems are preparing kids for our past and not for survival in their future. Fact-based or data-driven education based on competition is over. Education as measured by standardized tests and measurement form the basis of our past educational systems. That type of…

  • COLLABORATING WITH MACHINE INTELLIGENCE

    —

    by

    EdwardBerger

    The key to understanding how human beings will adapt to our future relationship with Machine Intelligence can be found in one word, collaboration. The key that will open doors in our educational systems, leading to changes that prepare students to work with, and not be the victim of, machine intelligence is also collaboration. The concept…

  • CULTURAL DEATH FROM COMPETITION

    —

    by

    EdwardBerger

    There is something very wrong with our cultural structure that may make it impossible to build a future with Machine Intelligence. How we operate our social structures exposes ways of dealing with each other that are not individual-centered. Too often we shut down individuals and reward leaders identified in ways that overpower the many and…

  • WHAT YOU IGNORE MAY END US ALL

    —

    by

    EdwardBerger

    Our species is creating an intelligence that is far superior to any human mind. We now live in an age of super intelligence, often called Machine Intelligence, which is rapidly gaining control of mankind’s future. Every system we take for granted is no longer as we once understood it. As an educator I have long…

  • DAMNED IF WE KNOW, DAMNED IF WE DON’T

    —

    by

    EdwardBerger

    Creating a new life form that is perhaps hundreds of thousands of times more intelligent than any single human being may have screwed us all. In our present economic mindset of greed and profit-driven corporations, we have created competitive entities. There is little thought of collaboration and cooperation for the good of humankind. Tragically, a…

  • EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF YOUR SCHOOLS AND TEACHING METHODS

    —

    by

    EdwardBerger

    Are your educational approaches and your evaluation procedures based upon competition and not collaboration and cooperation? Do you focus on data-driven, right or wrong regurgitation of what you believe is important? Is there a class valedictorian and models of achievement that all students are expected to conform to? If so, your class or school is…