OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
OF
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY
AND
DISTANCE LEARNING
January 2015
Volume 12 Number 1
Editorial Board Donald G. Perrin Ph.D.
Executive Editor Elizabeth Perrin Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief Brent Muirhead Ph.D.
Senior Editor Muhammad Betz, Ph.D.
Editor
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Editorial: Artificial Intelligence
Donald G. Perrin
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The pedagogical functions of arts and cultural-heritage education
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with ICTs in museums ? a case study of FINNA and Google Art
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Pei Zhao, Sara Sintonen, Heikki Kyn?slahti
Augmented reality
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Katrina L. Currie and J. Courduff
The role of e-learning, advantages and disadvantages of its adoption 29 in higher education
Valentina Arkorful and Nelly Abaidoo
Enriching professional practice with digital technologies: faculty
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performance indicators and training needs in Saudi higher education
Abdulrahman M Al-Zahrani
Branding in education
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William Callister, Katherine Blevins, Ryan Kier and Isaac Pettway
Student engagement, e-connectivity, and creating relationships in the 65 online classroom: emerging themes
Andree Swanson, Bill Davis, Omar Parks, Stan Atkinson, Brenda Forde and Kunsoo Choi
Kindles in the classroom: a survey of teachers and their perceptions 73 of a mandated high school kindle initiative
Erin Margarella and Matthew Ulyesses Blankenship
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Editorial
Artificial Intelligence
Donald G. Perrin
Dr. Herbert A. Simon and Allen Newell of Carnegie Mellon University gained renown in the mid-1950s when they created the first "thinking machine" and launched the field of artificial intelligence. Both were central figures during the cognitive revolution in psychology in the 1960s as scientists began to use computer models to study human thought processes.
In 1962, as a research assistant to Dr. James D. Finn on the Technological Development Project of the National Education Association, I was sent to the California Technical Institute to hear and see Professor Simon demonstrate artificial intelligence using the computer. The crowded lecture room tingled with excitement. Dr. Simon explained Turing's test to determine whether the computer response could be differentiated from a response by a human being. He showed how the computer was able to make decisions and solve problems such as the following:
Three missionaries and three cannibals must cross a river using a boat that can carry at most two people. For both banks, if there are missionaries present on the bank, they cannot be outnumbered by cannibals (if they were, the cannibals would eat the missionaries). The boat cannot cross the river with no people on board.
Dr. Simon also demonstrated intelligent robotics to detect and pick up an egg, and chess games where different computer algorithms were compared.
If the egg was detected and quickly removed, the machine went berserk in an un-programmed search for the egg. An electric shock restored the original program (was this analogous to shock treatment for a mental patient?).
The algorithms for chess compared a set of simple rules vs. alternative strategies for all of the possible next three moves. Simple rules worked better than analysis of millions of potential options.
The audience was intensely interested and excited by these demonstrations. At question time I asked how long it took to write the program for the missionaries and cannibals. The answer was "about six weeks, and two weeks to debug the program". It was not my intent to deflate an enthusiastic audience. It took some time to appreciate the tremendous step forward these experiments represented in development of artificial intelligence.
Fifty years later we find artificial intelligence, robotics, and automation augmenting productivity at home, at work, and in personal and business communications. Siri listens and provides answers faster than you can google them on a keyboard. And in 2012, IBM's Deep Blue won the chess championship from Garry Kasparov.
There are serious questions about what skillsets schools should teach in the future when ubiquitous mobile devices complement human intelligence and deliver customized training. Are we approaching a paradigm shift where "thinking machines" will play a dominant role in our daily lives and make irreversible change in the way we live? _________________________
Herbert A. Simon Obituary: Allen Newell and Herbert A Simon. Computer simulation of human thinking.
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