That's why I said that with today's technology "YOU" could create effective learning…
In that case, this industry is in MUCH bigger trouble than I ever imagined.
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That's why I said that with today's technology "YOU" could create effective learning…
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AD MAN!...
Remember how often the old lights flooded, or are you trying to forget?
Im still waiting for the material science wizards to develop a material that is better than Titanium at the cost of injection molded ABS. Then we can have sets of 10,000 PSI doubles that are just bumps on our Freedom Plates!
+1 I'm convinced the only reason DPVs haven't changed things enormously for most types of diving is the relatively extreme price-point for the real ones. Whether I'm freediving, single tank rec diving, or on a long/deep CCR dive, nothing else I use has been so useful or so much damn fun.
Unless I missed it, E-learning has not been addressed. It is yet another adapted technology which is very much in its infancy. A lot of knowledge is required to be a really good, safe, and confident diver. All this information can be presented in horribly boring and confusing ways.
I have believed for a long time that E-learning will change the world. It will evolve to include constant and subtle testing disguised as interaction. The human responses will guide the presentation of data in a way that is easiest to digest by the individual student. The stagnant one-size-fits-all model simply won’t be necessary.
The same presentation for a student with a PhD in Physics won’t work for a science and math challenged artist. An English teacher will probably need more time to understand how a regulator works than a HVAC technician. The Physics PhD will probably need a little more time getting a thorough understanding of barotrauma than an emergency room doc. Everyone knows an important key to learning is making it interesting which is the exact opposite of boring and confusing.
Some people are hyper visual and others are highly verbal. The world is filled with different languages and cultures. In time, a computer can be programmed to adjust the presentation. The presentation can be adjust based on the student reply by presenting different examples when answers are wrong and getting on with it when the student appears to have nailed it.
The downside is diver education is a small market and a lot of talented people will have to develop lots of content presented in many different ways. This gets to the heart of how we are wired.
I'm still using the DarrallAllen light for the big jobs, I must admit I did convert it to a spotlight LED, but it has never flooded…
That is essentially a summary of the argument made by Harvard business professor Dr. Clayton Christensen in his book Disrupting Class...
Sounds interesting. What do the authors say about discipline issues since it focuses on grades K-12? I can see a bunch of kids at computers in small cubby/cubicles and a roaming human teacher or two. Basically the computer will be programmed to tattle when a student is interacting below their normal. Is the kid sick, day dreaming about what s/he just learned, bored, confused, or just screwing off?
About the only part E-learning has today is hyperlinks imbedded in what is little more than an E-book. Don’t get me wrong, heavily imbedded hyperlinks are fantastic, but a long way from the kind of AI-like programming that is really necessary for this vision to work. What will be really interesting is to see how humans evolve in reaction to it.