The entry of artificial intelligence into schools is sparking a heated debate in the educational community. As was the case with the use of cell phones, which is still under discussion, the dominant attitude is hostile. The school has maintained essentially the same form for millennia. The teacher in the desk, with a blackboard, the…
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Social media has been instrumental in demolishing the structure and architecture of cultural mediation in traditional society. Social organizations that played a cultural mediating role-such as the school, the family, the mass media, the church, and political parties-have essentially been erased in their hierarchical role, that is, in their key function as mediators between the…
There is a need today to focus on a methodology and user interface that places humans above the processes and content generated by artificial intelligence, an “Above AI” approach. The application of this paradigm in education offers the advantage of developing collective solutions that can be controlled by the educational community. Educational content and activities…
The entry of artificial intelligence into schools is feasible in two basic ways: teaching with AI, that is, introducing it among teaching tools, and teaching AI, that is, considering it as a subject of study. As for the AI-learning tool, it can be used as a virtual tutor, which assists or replaces the teacher by…
The most destabilizing dilemma in today’s school is what is needed to study so as not to be challenged or replaced by artificial intelligence systems in the future. Because of this, in fact, so many human activities are now at risk of marginalization or replacement. For example, translation, which is now done effectively by dedicated…
Man is not made of letters and numbers, or even algorithms and data. The drive removal accomplished by alphabetic writing led us to abstract thinking, enabled by the alphabet and mathematical signs. Man is not made of letters and numbers, nor of algorithms and data. The drive removal achieved by alphabetic writing has led us…
In the essay Homo Ludens, anthropologist Johan Huizinga analyzes the playful dimension as the generator of human culture. Play is older than culture because animals did not have to wait for humans to teach them how to play, so it is a pre-human manifestation. In the earliest forms of human civilization, culture arises in a…
Staying in the context of new cognitive technologies, is it possible to imagine virtual reality-nowadays widespread in video game forms-as a potential encyclopedia of human memory and culture? The idea of artificial memory (Artificial Memory) based on virtual environments dates back to classical culture, when the methodology of the art of memory was developed. This…
Extended Intelligence is a polysemous concept, indicating both the integration of Extended Reality (VR-AR domain, or better yet XR) and Artificial Intelligence, and a more humanistic idea of Artificial Intelligence that defines it not as an autonomous entity that replaces natural human intelligence, but as an enhancement of it, an extension in fact. It is…
Besides Artificial Intelligence, another component of “Synthetic Media” that is creating a new dimension of learning and knowledge is extended reality (also called XR, extended reality, technology that creates an immersive multimedia experience). What is the predominant feeling in the immersive experience? The user, particularly the child, experiences augmented perceptions, becoming almost an X-Men with…
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