15. Half of the world’s jobs – over 2 billion – are at
risk of automation in the coming decades.
- Pew Research Center
16. 65% of children in elementary school today
will have jobs that do not exist today.
17. Employers Need a Highly Skilled Workforce to Keep
Up with the Fast Pace of Change in Business Today.
Current Employees are Lacking 4Cs (Critical
Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, Communication)
- American Management Association, 2012
18. No relationship between the amount of money
spent in school and the amount of student learning.
No higher cognitive skills of human capital, no higher
economic growth.
Eric Hanushek, Stanford University
19. A child asks about 40,000 questions between the ages of 2 and 5.
During that span, a shift occurs in the kind of questions being asked:
from simple factual ones (name of object) to questions seeking explanations.
Falling-off-the-cliff phenomenon as students move from elementary school
through high school.
Paul Harris, Harvard University
20. Students become more passive learners as they move up in
grade and focus on memorizing.
Creating
Evaluating
Analyzing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering
Understanding
Remembering
Forgetting
21. Our brain finds ways to “reduce our
mental workload,” and one way is to
accept without question...
John Kounios, Drexel University
25. Professor
Professor: I’ve never seen these many questions from my
students…
Students: Why didn’t we do this from the first semester?
26. “We need to argue about the correct answer here…”
27. “We can make these questions little more interesting…”
28. By 2030 half of all the world’s youth in low and middle
income countries – over 800 million young people –
will lack the basic high-school level skills needed for
work and life. - UN report "The Learning Generation: Investing in education for a changing world"
29. The average student in the developing world scores on basic
literacy and numeracy measures on par with the lowest 5 percent
of students in the developed world.
And perhaps what is worse, at the current pace of change, it will
take over 100 years for the developing world students to catch up.
- Rebecca Winthrop, Brookings Institution
30. “There is a flaw in my friend’s question and I can fix it…”
35. Adhoc local area mobile learning network – content & application server + router + wifi + storage
One button and runs on a battery
Micro Cloud SMILE
38. Tanzania
Questions in Swahili and English.
No textbook. Only the teacher owns textbooks.
Learning English by creating questions with photos. (Bottom)
39.
40. SMILE in corporate training
and strategic brainstorming meetings
SMILE in global think tank
strategic meetings Stanford Technology Leaders
Swiss Start-up lab in San Francisco
41. 2016 United Nations Report mentions SMILE:
"Tools that reduce the time teachers spend on
administrative tasks also help free them up to
teach – such as the Stanford Mobile Inquiry-
based Learning Environment platform, which
allows teachers to track assessment scores,
manage homework, and monitor children’s
progress in real time."
42. As an early stage work, we use IBM Watson’s brain and our proprietary algorithms to look at our student
questions.
43. Need for question evaluation
Need to give advice
NLP is an area needing a lot more
research in the deep learning field
Autonomous driving cars, playing
chess or Baduk reached remarkable
maturity
If maturity is reached in NLP and
relevant technologies, possibilities
are infinite.
New search engines,
Life-long smart advisor,
Lecturers teaching well-defined
knowledge become obsolete,
44. Our system gives statistical analysis on how close each question is to a different type and quality of
questions.
Using existing question sets as training data. A few ways to improve the performance of our system:
• Use better and more training data (SMILE accumulating questions everyday. You can help!)
• Enhance our algorithm layers to make our analysis much deeper learning
AlphaGo training itself with 30,000 games a day.
60. “The number of innovations in education in
the next 5 years will exceed the number of all
innovations we have seen in the last 500
years combined.”