CS73N Meeting 04 Notes:
By Gio Wiederhold, Restored 20 April 2006, updated 13 April 2008.
Topics Covered briefly
We now have projects titles from most everyone.
You can either put your home work on a CS webpage or on the CS73N wiki pages and then link it into the class list under your name, best with a superior homepage (index.html), or, for now, just send us the pointer, or email it to us. By next week you should be able to the real thing.
Small question: the date formats used in CS73N is
ddMMMyyyy. Why? Avoid errors for an international audience. A harder issue is a
universal phone number format, that is clear about what part of the
prefixes to deal depending on where the caller is located relative to
the receiver.
COPIED NOTES FROM Shirley (unedited)
We started a good discussion on education with the question "how
has the internet changed education for you?" The ideas put forth
included:
- teachers post assignments -->internet facilitates collaborative environment in classroom
- research on-line
- on-line simulations
- independent learning with offerings like MIT Open Courseware
- verification of text & instructor information --> multiple sources of learning
We focused on this last point to discuss how the internet has changed the textbook publishing world.
- textbooks add value over internet, eg organization of material, sequencing, exercises
- static subjects better for textbooks; internet useful where information changes rapidly
- movement towards on-line texts
"How has the internet changed schools like Stanford?"
- Still value face-to-face interactions with renown experts, with fellow students
- what is 'value'? Live versus canned value
Bill Gates' lecture in February mentioned:
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his idea that just a few experts should deliver live lectures to a
global audience, leaving more time for the academic community as a
whole to teach less and research more, thus advancing knowledge in
their fields more quickly (and disseminating it more widely)
--> Is there just one effective teaching style?
--> Does learning only flow one way, i.e. from teacher to student?
What other types of training might be facilitated by the internet besides university education?
- compulsory K-12
- for-profit training, eg Kaplan, University of Phoenix, DeVry
- corporate training
- military -->Ambush, vehicle for dissemination of lessons learned in the field
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