taking measure of the monster’s shadow (tip: check the mirror) and restorative counter-measures
Research has shown that those students (all of us, really) remember a new word or fact best when they learn it and then relearn it when they are just on the cusp of forgetting it. Area9’s instructional software uses algorithms to predict each user’s unique memory-decay curve so that it can remind a student of something learned last week at the moment it is about to slip out of his or her brain forever.
Seth Fletcher, ‘How Big Data is Taking Teachers Out of the Lecturing Business‘, Scientific American, July 2013
Really, big data, is there no end to it? Machine grading, adaptive learning, and now algorithmic lasering of the precise moment when a fact starts to slither down the unique memory-decay curve and prepares to be lost forever. I don’t know how we managed before.
There’s a lot to be said about the predatory hovering…
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MOOC Madness 