By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Why the future does not need us’ was an article that changed Tony’s life. He realized then that he was a techno positivist, but what would happen when something does not turn out positively, what really goes on in this intersection with technology. What will the technological effect be for current children, and what can we do in order to make them ready for the future. More...

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Essentially any task a human brain can do in roughly one second processing time can now by replicated by a machine. Machines can recognise people, transcribe between languages, esthetic interpretation, make predictions. What we have today is something of a revolution, leading us towards intuitive intelligence is a force moving us to the next revolution. Increasing human intelligence, as most geniuses are alive today. Read more...

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. What is critical thinking? Critical thinking in itself does not exist. There are many things that together make up critical thinking. Evaluating a claim is something else than critical thinking, which requires arguments and proof.
Famous study with air traffic controllers, a manual job and taking in enormous amounts of data at split seconds. Critical thinking was similar because of far transfer. Far transfer is the holy grail of wisdom, of learning. Read more...

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. This is simply a must have for anyone into learning: the Handbook of Learning Analytics by Charles Lang, George Siemens, Alyssa Wise and Dragan Gašević. Really, it is an astonishing bundle (350 pages!) of learning analytics insights, which will get anyone with an interest in learning analytics up to speed with current challenges and ideas. More...

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 Chapter 14. Provision of Data-Driven Student Feedback in LA and EDM