Re:500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a...
by rangerpolitic on Saturday May 04, 2019 @08:44PM
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VR+AI will not make a significant impact. I am a former language educator, and I've been through this before... and before... and before.
It follows a hype cycle. The idea is promoted. People get excited. It comes out. It fizzles. Later, educators rediscover the idea. They implement it. It has a small positive impact for small number of learners in a small number of cases.
To give some examples:
- Native English Speaking Teachers
- English immersion villages in South Korea
- English robots in South Korea and Japan
- The Audio-lingual Method
- Berlitz Method
- Rosetta Stone Immersion Based Learning Method
- MUDs, MOOs, MUSHs
- MOOCs
- Blended learning
- Badges
- Gamification
- Second Life
There's no reason to think VR+AI will be any different. It's simply what's hot right now.
It follows a hype cycle. The idea is promoted. People get excited. It comes out. It fizzles. Later, educators rediscover the idea. They implement it. It has a small positive impact for small number of learners in a small number of cases.
To give some examples: - Native English Speaking Teachers - English immersion villages in South Korea - English robots in South Korea and Japan - The Audio-lingual Method - Berlitz Method - Rosetta Stone Immersion Based Learning Method - MUDs, MOOs, MUSHs - MOOCs - Blended learning - Badges - Gamification - Second Life
There's no reason to think VR+AI will be any different. It's simply what's hot right now.