http://www.stephenp.net/2007/04/13/stephen-downes-on-ple-at-mit/ A specialist in inquiry-based, work-focussed, online supported learning Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:24:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.stephenp.net/2007/04/13/stephen-downes-on-ple-at-mit/comment-page-1/#comment-3358 Richard Millwood Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:23:49 +0000 http://www.stephenp.net/2007/04/13/stephen-downes-on-ple-at-mit/#comment-3358 "If this were to work really well, rather than searching for resources the system ought to have a predictive capability in which “the resources present themselves to you”." This is seductive, but what about the process of enquiry and the formulation of question, sifting of results, evaluating of results etc.? Agreed information should be accessible, but if it presents itself (as though the information or the system actually understood anything at all! - another source of sceptism on my part) - who made the learning decisions? “If this were to work really well, rather than searching for resources the system ought to have a predictive capability in which “the resources present themselves to you”.”
This is seductive, but what about the process of enquiry and the formulation of question, sifting of results, evaluating of results etc.? Agreed information should be accessible, but if it presents itself (as though the information or the system actually understood anything at all! – another source of sceptism on my part) – who made the learning decisions?

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