tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post4116434407978020100..comments2024-03-27T08:53:29.267-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Pearson Loves Professor HALPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-63720834045519579342016-03-26T10:29:39.523-04:002016-03-26T10:29:39.523-04:00Your discussion of AI and intelligence simulation ...Your discussion of AI and intelligence simulation stirred me to think about actual knowledge and knowledge simulation. One worry that I have about the current emphasis on multiple-choice standardized testing and discussions about CBE is that students might just be simulating knowledge. <br /><br />I recall Richard Feynman's discussion of this sort of thing in "Surely, You're Joking Mr. Feynman." He taught physics in Brazil for a year as a visiting professor. The physics students there seemed to know a lot about physics. They knew the particular facts and the equations. But when Feynman pressed them as individuals or in groups, it turned out that they had simulated knowledge. They really didn't know physics. They couldn't really apply this "knowledge" or even imagine how to discover new knowledge in physics. He recounts how he was almost fooled by one young man, but after repeated questioning he realized that even this young man really didn't know physics. <br /><br />In a farewell speech to an audience of the physics community in Brazil and education officials, Feynman recommended completely changing how physics was taught in Brazil. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07228908566250306699noreply@blogger.com