Neuroscience, AI and the Future of Education | Scott Bolland | TEDxSouthBank

Currently around 63% of students are disengaged at school, meaning that they withdrawal either physically or mentally before they have mastered the skills that are required to flourish in later life. In this talk Scott Bolland explores the science of learning, the mismatch between how we teach and how the brain natural learns, and the important role that artificial intelligence could take in addressing the limitations in our current education system.
Dr Scott Bolland is the founder of New Dawn Technologies, a high-tech software company aiming to revolutionise education through the use of artificial intelligence. He has spent the last 20 years actively researching and teaching in the field of cognitive science - the scientific study of how the mind works - which spans disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and computer science. He holds a PhD in this field, as well as a university medal for outstanding academic scholarship.
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[@renehenriksen1735]

Quote: " - There´s a mismatch between the way learning is tought and the way the brain naturally learns." So true.

[@claijondasilva]

And right now in 2019 this still holds true

[@angelusvastator1297]

Ugh wish teachers could understand this.

[@bridgerzeke3694]

instablaster

[@EhsanAmini]

"We need less standardization and more personalization." Very well said.

[@user-su9dd1hl7z]

This is true but as you know the problem is resources.

[@wolfferoni]

As a student teacher, I believe this is genius. There's a big focus now on how to make the classroom more engaging with PBL, active learning, differentiation of abilities etc. I'm excited that this tech is to be released soon.

[@raulbsharma]

One of the best lectures I ve watched on paradigm shift in education.

[@lkd982]

"someone to delight in them" - most important ingredient in education, for the children themselves - best quote

[@dr.chrisperry7757]

Showed how play of children is the basis of learning, even to each AI. How awesome is that.

[@joeschroedernz]

Looks like this would be a helpful addition to khan academy

[@rifatulislamhimel6545]

I concur with Dr. Bolland's perspective that tailoring learning materials and teaching approaches to suit each student's needs is essential. "We need less standardization and more personalization." Very well said.

[@yuzhang4386]

I was touched by his last sentence. I feel that it is actually what I need during my education, someone to guide me to find my own path.

[@marcusmaschke8986]

It's not just kids that need education adults do aswell people of all ages.

[@Nigel068]

This a truly inspiring lecture! Scott you are an inspiration!

[@askyeshka726]

You did not end up with your successes and achievement you earned them and owning that you gained something from hard work is not arrogance. You deserve to reward and congratulate yourself for what you did to get you where you are. L'Chaim!

[@shake6321]

great talk and best of luck to you!! i have a new born and i welcome the day that robots can teach him anything from the comfort of his home so that i can spend more time with him, taking him to museums and around the world so as to kindle his flame.

[@hangoolee5840]

Great talk, but need small correction on the one fact of called 'Japanese symbol for 5' it is not a Japanese symbol, it is Chinese character(or alphabet) for no. 5. like 'five' in English.

[@yinmei9914]

Students , especially younger ones will be beneficial the most from Personal E-learning +Personal Group object learning module . Can not wait for this tech to be released and operated in all elementary schools .

[@msbuff]

4 years later, a pandemic, and I can't even get a solid internet connection in my classroom to teach hybrid.

[@Olympian21]

It's really sad that such a fascinating speech has a very low view

[@lifegenius763]

Excellent Ted talk 😊 really informative 🙏

[@mamunmiah7121]

Hello Scott, this is a great talk especially when you described the personalization of education instead of standardization through the use of AI. I agree that personalized education will bring more innovation in personal preferences and collectively the society will gain much more. However, I am just wondering if there is no standardized tests how will one's performance be evaluated? Also, could you please provide us with the links of your technical journal or conference papers that you are basing this talk on?

[@sarahaldghen9462]

Sooo inspiring and helpful 👏

[@masaqader]

What a beautiful ted talk. The information regarding why some students do not succeed is so important, yet overlooked by most teaching institutions.

[@kunalsharma-pz8xl]

Good one..appreciated.

[@LuNar99]

It's sad this gets so little views...

[@kellykirkpatrick8978]

There's a reason for that and if you can't figure that out well then I don't know what to say.. This technology Landing in the wrong hands nevermind

[@saurabhinorange]

Perfect.

[@vaishnavimenon]

Amazing

[@theurbanwolf298]

Home was horror because they tried to beat the ADHD out of me. Blood was drawn dramatically. I was explained how horrible it was at a group home looking for foster parents.18th birthday came and got a Christmas job I left on payday (2nd paycheck)That’s why I am so compatible with psychologists, they can appreciate %110

[@victorstarly23]

The experiment using robots really stunned me

[@ProfPratimaRPatki]

Superbbb😇👌👌👌👌⚘⚘⚘

[@mithileshbhavarkar1]

I loved it.

[@desgita4718]

Wooow, Hillarious 😍

[@DarkNinja-24]

Great vision, but still a lot of work needs to be done to get there

[@TheJacobsBro]

I´m utterly amazed by the learning software - is itavailable yet?

[@bejbelove]

Memrise works similar for languages or terms , but it's limited to memorizing words.

[@not4guy]

This guy is on the right track… more more more!!! Create “baby crib AI teacher”

[@alegna444]

the system doesn't need to be reformed but rather transformed.

[@user-kd2uy2ir3j]

Nice jobs,thanks share

[@skitzoweirdo5313]

So how do you feel about the ongoing procedures and experimentation of gathering as much information from individual brain's in order to store memories and possibly repeat lifetimes, keeping the individual "in place" by class, finance, athletic ability,etc? In other words, do you think it's a good idea to continue?....

[@Vaidoteful]

I have always been ahead of my classmates in learning - never had to make lot of effort... but never ever did I feel bored in school. Until this day, being nearly 50 I still don't understand how anybody can experience boredom in this world.... A functional brain can always find things to work on and be occupied even in the environments that are not "engaging"; one can engage its own brain with a minimal mental effort. People are just becoming less tolerant and very impatient (in oterh words "lazyminded") these days which results in boredom... They want an instant reward, the one that FB provides... And by the way, how can anyone accociate FB with congnitive enhancment?

[@bejbelove]

It also depends on the school environment, I remember my teacher complained to my mum, that I am not paying attention at the class and I know all answers ,when asked ,so she do not even know how to punish me for not putting much attention .. so discipline was much more important than the material to learn.

[@Kuratz1]

Wonderful. How can i help. Do you need developer/neuroscientist?

[@senior1110]

People born today are lucky to be the first generation who will be taught persoanlized education and it is only possible because AI. Still I wonder how much the students' motivation and discipline will determine the ultimate success in any learning.

[@jannyzhingaz9562]

very interesting indeed however I would like to know what would the system do with all the personal data collected of the person who learns with the software who will own that data? how will this data be used? who will have access to it? can that data prevent you from getting into certain schools? can it be used to be denied potential jobs in the future based on a malfunction? I'm all for the transformation of the educational model the first thing would be to stop looking at it as a system

[@shake6321]

Is it possible to add your software to some of the software i want to build?

[@paulthomas7887]

On this very day, It was announced a man dies in a Tesla car utilizing AI technology. But these TED videos are very encouraging and feel good moments and lots of new concepts and perspectives to learn from. regarding 2:23

[@HampTamp]

Did you see how many lives Tesla and it's AI has saved compaired to completely manual human driving though? (Yes your comment is 2 years old but anyway. Elon musk even answered this in an interview and it opened some peoples eyes). The computer is just way better at detecting an accident about to occur than a human. It's insane.

[@MrChezzwizz]

If there is a sign language interpreter available at these events, why isn't there a picture in picture view edited in for the hard of hearing?

[@dhaimovich1]

What theoretical framework would this align to?

[@elodiemoreau2329]

How do you create happiness in the robot ? How the robot "feels" happy ? What does it means ? I don't understand that part.

[@abduweliabdusemi5782]

To do all of this, we need to change how the society works. I am talking about market economy, capitalism.

[@wordysmithsonism8767]

I was in the top 99% of my class.

[@gc5846]

what happened to Scott Boland and his companyThe Dawn Technology for education? i can’t find him on google !!!

[@radicalpisces]

what should i major in if in interested in this

[@barristars5328]

How did they 'inject' happiness into the robot?Gosh!

[@felipemoreira8308]

Education is our only salvation.

Couldn't agree more.

[@vivianaf649]

Wow

[@halaoui7080]

Is there a subtitled version of this TedX (from English to French ?) :)

[@Catangerine]

If you go to the website of TED and find this one they might have a transcript, they have transcripts in a lot of different languages for a lot of their talks

[@renehenriksen1735]

Could be cool to be as good at coding at him. Every programminglanguage? Really? If true then it´s amazing

[@victorstarly23]

totally agree! this guy is so powerful

[@DarkNinja-24]

The ratio of likes to views is quite high compare to most KZbin videos

[@leongooorg]

The assertion that the majority of students are disengaged because they are either way ahead or behind what the teacher is teaching doesn't make any sense. The distribution would naturally be Gaussian, so that the majority of students should've been happily engaged in the classroom.

[@Sage2000]

One note: how to develop all that without creating more unemployment for education professionals and dehumanizing the processes?

[@mateuszkozowski2497]

Did he mention how this apk. is supposed to be personalized for every student?

[@RubenWhitter]

Woah! If this is true then is there much difference between robots and humans?

[@ediposantos6574]

No matter how the software works great, it needs to look and have a reward system like candy crush or clash of clans

[@carlasousa9230]

Please dont forget to question the dangerous of this. AI does not substitute human heart or touch to a child. Be careful with AI!!! Think better before inducing a dream like agenda into our society.

[@mrthugamer7603]

Don't take away the personal learning and teaching of music. All the rest is allright for me. But music goed beyond just right or wrong.

[@morakinyoifeoluwa3860]

✍✍✍

[@fangming5173]

Looks like I'm gonna be the only one here thinking his method is going to miss the mark. Before 100 years ago, very few productive or influential people depended on formal education, and certainly no one relied on AI. If anything, I think his AI is going to make people dumber for the following reasons: 1) AI is dumber than humans since they lack the creative part, and 2) by spending more time with AI, students will have less time to interact with their natural environment. Therefore, when they go into the real world, they will be treated like idiot savants at best and plain idiots at worst. It will be no different than hoping that using calculators on all the tough math questions will make someone more capable at math.

[@scottbolland]

Perhaps it wasn't clear enough in the talk. The point of the AI is not to replace the teacher. The system is intended to help students learn the basics faster, and more efficiently, so that the role of the teacher becomes more interesting. Rather than teaching students WHAT they need to know, face-to-face contact can more focus on WHY the material is interesting. i.e. cool projects that apply the knowledge in interesting ways. E.g., what could a child achieve if he knew maths or science. Check out the summit public schools (summitps.org) that utilise this approach (with computer aided personalised learning time mixed with project-based learning). 100% of these students meet the requirements to attend college, and are twice as likely to graduate than the national average.

[@user-nq5wb1cz5e]

Marvelous Whiskers computers are creative now, look at deep learning inverse

[@davidschmidt6013]

Marvelous, I believe you, I've seen it. Students now have computers that they can literally ask almost any question and receive an instant answer. I believe that rather than stimulating their curiosity, it has destroyed their willingness to do research. Frequently I am asked questions by my students, and many times I respond with some variation of that 'That's an interesting question, why not look it up and share what you learn with the class?" They almost always give me some version of "No, never mind." See? If they DON'T get the instant answer, they lose interest. I could assign it, but I want them to WANT to learn it...it's a struggle.

[@victorstarly23]

@@davidschmidt6013, perhaps you are going all the way around. Maybe you should consider presenting a material that needs to be such interesting, that it focuses on the students' attention immediately without even being asked. For instance, when you asked your students to look back for a question, you are literally forcing them to (1) Placing on them an "interesting question" (2) however, the question is interesting for you, rather than for the students. Thus, it may be a good strategy to answer back with an attractive question which makes the student think critically. It eventually will generate the student emotion on his own learning ability and will look according to his own curiosity. That may generate a chain of questions and so on till the students have learned, processed, discussed the findings; it can be the partners, in groups and with you monitoring. Then, your students will avoid giving the versions "no, never mind" :)

[@naturewonders3604]

Stop teaching useless facts and focus on actual careers and skills, that's the whole point. School is just a giant waste of time. Sudbury school is the only system that actually gets it. Stop authoritarianism, and start with self direction and individual interests.