Now that the taught section of the course has come to an end my main objective for the last two weeks of the course is to clean up the lifestream blog for final submission and coming up with a research question for my final essay.

Although I hadn’t planned to add additional content this week I couldn’t pass up on the opportunity to share this excellent TED talk on YouTube by Stanford professor Fei Fei Li on the newest advancements in machine learning, an overarching theme in this course and one of the most exciting topics I’ve learned about in a long time. All throughout this course I’ve been wondering if once artificial intelligence surpasses our own where this will leave us humans and our human education. Might such a takeover happen before education (at least in its institutionalised form) even embraces some of the radical changes promised by Technology Enhanced Learning? Will there even be a need for education in a world where all important cognitive tasks are performed by sentient machines or will education be an optional activity for those so inclined similar to what learning a musical instrument is in today’s society?

I’m currently in the process of going through every post of my lifestream, fixing links, embeds and tags. Once I am finished with that I will be posting a final summary by the end of next week.