**** On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Panu Horsmalahti <[email protected]> wrote: Availibility of the Internet actually makes school grades worse. Of course, grades does not equal education, but I don't see anything "worldchanging" about education because of this.
- Panu Horsmalahti **** Hmmm.... I do think the Internet has worldchanging implications for education, many of which are being realized all around us as we speak... School grades are a poor measure of intellectual achievement. And of course, the Internet can be used in either wonderful or idiotic ways -- it obviously DOES have revolutionary implications for education, even if statistically few make use of it in a way that significantly manifests these implications. I see this article http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/20100714/tc_ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc3118 linked from the above article, which provides some (not that much) data that computer or Net access may decrease test scores in some low-income families.... But as the article itself states, this suggests the problem is not the computers or Net, but rather the inability of many low-income parents to guide their kids in educational use of computers and the Net ... or to give their kids a broad enough "general education" to enable them to guide themselves in this regard... Similarly, reading has great potential to aid education -- but if all you read are romance novels and People or Fat Biker Chick magazine, you're not going to broaden your mind that much ;p ... Maybe there are some students on this email list, who are wading through all the BS and learning something about AGI, by following links and reading papers mentioned here, etc. Without the Net, how would these students learn about AGI, in practice? Such education would be far harder to come by and less effective without the Net. That's world-changing... ;-) ... Learning about AGI via online resources may not improve your school grades any, because AGI knowledge isn't tested much in school. But students learning about AGI online could change the world... -- Ben G > *agi* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC CTO, Genescient Corp Vice Chairman, Humanity+ Advisor, Singularity University and Singularity Institute External Research Professor, Xiamen University, China [email protected] "I admit that two times two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, two times two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too." -- Fyodor Dostoevsky ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=8660244-6e7fb59c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
