Pages that are tagged with: education

• 400,000 Essays Later, Vantage Learning Spells Success in Over Half of Utah's School Districts.
  Utah's students are boosting critical writing, reasoning, and computer skills in the classroom, thanks to a licensing agreement for MY Access! the award-winning online writing tool developed by Vantage Learning. Twenty four districts have decided to use MY Access! this school year after teachers, directors and administrators from across the state saw a marked improvement in student performance. Students submitted over 400,000 essays to MY Access! in one school year and administrators decided to expand their use of MY Access! to over 70,000 licenses in over twenty four school districts throughout the Utah school system. ... To use MY Access!, students write an essay based on a teacher's assignment, and submit it to the Web-based system. The program instantly analyzes over 350 semantic, syntactic, and discourse characteristics, and scores the students on focus and meaning, organization, content and development, language use and style, mechanics and conventions, and overall writing proficiency.. August 18, 2008. (more)
• CBR Noir.
  CBR Noir is a high-level, tongue-in-cheek introduction to Case-Based Reasoning (CBR). It is presented in the style of a classic Film Noir murder mystery. For the connoisseur, the dialogue incorporates the names of many early CBR systems; see if you can count them all before the credits roll. July 14, 2008. (more)
• CSE Colloquia - 2005: Intelligent Tutoring Systems - Improving Student Modeling.
  Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) are computer-based instructional tools that rely on artificial intelligence techniques to generate individualized interactions tailored to a student's learning needs. Cristina Conati [University of British Columbia] discusses how the scope and effectiveness of ITS can be increased by extending the range of features captured in a student model to include domain independent, meta-cognitive skills and affective states. October 19, 2004. (more)
• CSE Colloquia - 2007: Broadening Computer and Robotics Education and Participation for Women.
  "Women and other underrepresented groups represent a vast amount of untapped human resource potential needed to fuel both industry and academic research needs. Professor Andrew Williams [Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia] describes a cohesive, integrated approach to increase the participation and education of women and African Americans using innovative robotics and computer curriculum and competitions. Williams provides several examples, including how the all-women Spelman College's SpelBots RoboCup Four-Legged robot soccer team, and the joint Spelman and Carnegie Mellon University NSF-sponsored project, C.A.R.E. [Computer and Robotics Education for African American Students], have inspired young girls to pursue education and research in robotics and artificial intelligence." November 14, 2006. (more)
• Computer Chronicles: Women in Computing (1985).
  "Meet the top women in a field that has traditionally been dominated by men." Hosts Stewart Cheifet and Gary Kildall interview guests: Dr. Thelma Estrin, Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, and her daughter Judy Estrin, Co-Founder and Executive V.P of Bridge Communications; Kay Gilliland, Director of EQUALS at U.C. Berkeley, and Elizabeth Scott, Co-Founder of Rhiannon Software; Adele Goldberg, Xerox PARC and President of ACM; Jan Lewis, President of the Palo Alto Research Group. The show also includes reports about computers in the classroom and The Women's Computer Literacy Project, a commentary by Paul Schindler, the Random Access news report and Paul Schindler's review of the "da Vinci" software program. 1985. (more)
• Computers in Education.
  Stewart Cheifet is joined by guest co-host Herb Lechner [SRI International] for this 1984 broadcast about computers in education with in-studio guests: Professor Patrick Suppes [Stanford University], Nancy Palmer [ Computer Education Coordinator, Palo Alto School District], and Glenn Kleiman [Teaching Tools Microcomputer Services], author of 'Brave New Schools'. . 1984. (more)
• Listen.
  Demo of Project Listen for helping kids with reading. Computer listens to kids reading sentences of a story and gives feedback. 1994. (more)
• Project Listen Collection.
  Collection of Videos from Project Listen, the reading tutor developed by Jack Mostow at CMU. Last update 2006. (more)
• Robot Teachers (w/embedded video).
  A third year computer science graduate student, Whitehill and his colleagues are working to make a new generation of robots that would be effective and responsive teachers. They believe the key is to train them to recognize and respond to facial expressions, the way humans do naturally. Whitehill described the demonstration, part of his research at the University of California, San Diego's Machine Perception Laboratory, as "almost like having a remote control built into your face." The research falls under the umbrella of artificial intelligence -- the creation of machines that can behave like humans -- and Whitehill envisions a not-so-far-away future when robots will replace people as teachers, at least in areas that require a lot of repetition, such as foreign language and math drills. He doesn't, however, foresee them ever replacing philosophy teachers, for example. July 29, 2008. (more)
• Robots & Us at Great Lakes Science Center.
  CLEVELAND -- A new exhibition is opening at the Great Lakes Science Center that brings humans into the world of robots. The Robots + Us exhibit is a place where humans meet machines in a fun and educational journey to the world of artificial intelligence. September, 2008. (more)
• Smart Classroom.
  Smart Classroom is an exciting and visionary technology designed to improve the quality of teaching and learning experiences at colleges and universities. This video has been created as part of the course work for "Creative Design for Software Systems" at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. July 14, 2008. (more)