WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Print ISSN: 1790-0832, E-ISSN: 2224-3402
Volume 16, 2019
Computers and Artificial Intelligence as Tools for Education in the Forthcoming Era of the Internet of Things and Energy
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Abstract: The purpose of the present article is to express some thoughts about the new big challenge that Education faces in our days to prepare students for a new way of life with rather uncertain futures in the forthcoming era of a new, but not explicitly known yet, industrial revolution. Our attention is mainly focused on the role that computers and Artificial Intelligence could play in future education and the risks hiding behind this perspective. It is concluded that computers should not be viewed as tools that can perform miracles by solving any kind of problems, but rather as machines performing operations in high speed and therefore enabling users to dedicate their time to quality reasoning and ideas. Computational Thinking appears today as a new way of thinking, which together with critical thinking is necessary for the solution of the complex technological problems created by the rapid development of technology during the last decades. It involves a variety of skills and as a composition of topics from mathematics, engineering, technology and science forms a new mode of reasoning having the potential to create beneficial changes to our society. The impressive applications of Artificial Intelligence in the field of Education (machine learning, social robots, Case-Based Reasoning Systems with computers, etc.) has made a number of specialists on the subject to reach to the conclusion that teachers will not be necessary in future, since the “clever” machines will be able to do everything for educating people. However, it seems that this is actually an illusion, because all these devices have been created and programmed by humans and, although many of them (e.g. the computers) dramatically exceed in speed, it is logical to accept that they will never reach the level of human mind.
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Keywords: Industrial Revolutions (IR’s), Internet of Things and Energy (IoT & E), Cyber-Physical System (CPS), Flipped Learning (FL), Critical Thinking (CrT),
Pages: 185-191
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-0832 / 2224-3402, Volume 16, 2019, Art. #21