Because it's not that hard to find somebody with a voice that most folks would like to hear. Which is a pretty serious problem with the hypothesis that it's hard to find male voices that everybody likes.
The library around here had an autodialer that would remind folks about late materials and when books were available, they used a pleasant voice from a black gentleman. It had a James Earl Jones quality to it and was quite pleasant despite being relatively unsophistication in use. Meaning that the words were taken from samples so they wouldn't quite match up even if the grammar was correct.
It is writing, sort of, but like I said it's probably more effective to have students learn short hand than it would be to learn cursive. I think the only time I use cursive on a regular basis is signing my name. For practical purposes you could just teach the students those characters in cursive as they don't need to read anybody else's signature, just identify that it matches.
You do raise a solid point though, if you're just taking notes there's a lot of words that you don't need to write, such as most prepositions and often times you don't need to write full words either.
Cursive is still useful, I find that it's a lot easier to use cursive to take notes than with block printing as it takes longer for my hand to cramp up with cursive. OTOH, it's not very useful for interpersonal communication, which is why it's been downgraded in importance. When all is said and done it would probably be more useful to teach short hand than it would be to teach cursive.
The multiple intelligences stuff really has run amok in recent years.
The reason to use a mixture isn't because some students prefer one over the other. As long as the students are comprehending the material, they'll learn it. The main reason for using a variety of styles is so that the brain can't adapt to the dominant type of input and has to figure out how to make sense from various types of lesson. Which happens to be a lot more authentic in that you don't generally get to control how information is provided to you.
It's very much like weight training, you'll ideally be varying the various variables regularly to prevent your muscles from adapting to the exercises, the brain does similar things to maintain efficiency.
I've tried that and it only works if you're in a position to identify the correct answer. I've seen students who were basically there spend a lot of time trying to get there and ultimately have no clue as to what the correct answer looks like.
Thomas Edison was renowned for trying thousands of different ways of creating a light bulb before succeeding, had he not had a way of identifying a functioning lightbulb he would likely have continued it until his death.
Perhaps, but if the entire class needs instant feed back on every step in the process the teacher is doing something wrong.
The other day I spent some time helping a student trying to enter an answer into a computer program. She knew the correct answer, but neither her nor I could figure out how to input the answer in a way that the computer program would accept. A teacher, or even a tutor, would be able to instantly recognize that the answer was correct without having to do any real thinking.
Yes, but part of growing up to be a responsible and productive adult is knowing how to manage distractions. Which isn't something they're likely to teach in college, assuming that you go, it's something that has to be instilled by somebody up until that point typically.
They're not lacking, it's just that they aren't being paid well, so rather than going into education, they go into other fields where they probably aren't known much outside the field. You do still have individuals who go into teaching anyways, where many of them burn out before making it even 5 years and go back and contribute where they're appreciated.
Computers may not be necessary outside of performing research and typing out an essay, but you'd be surprised how many occupations require computer literacy. At this point it's not unusual for people hiring for firms that do private security to require basic computer skills. And most of those jobs pay basically minimum wage with a crappy work place environment.
That's the price you pay for flexibility. I had similar issues with my Win mobile device, MS would allow you to draw the characters in different ways and would try to accommodate that. Palm at that time made you learn how to use Graffiti in order to enter text, however because they made you use a standard style of writing it could cut down dramatically on the possible interpretations of any written text.
In this case because Google Voice Actions is limited in what input it will receive it becomes drastically easier for the algorithms to decide what to do. That being said, I don't think that entirely explains it and I have a sneaking suspicion that Google Voice transcriptions might have something to do with it.
Those are all things you can do with Google Voice Actions. Admittedly you're restricted in terms of how you phrase it, but it's dishonest to suggest that any of that stuff doesn't work with Google Voice Actions.
Siri is ultimately at a disadvantage for taking that route, because ultimately it has to have much better comprehension of the spoken words as it can't count on matching just most of the command before worrying about what to do with the input. Basically it's the difference between Palm's Graffiti and whatever you call the MS Win CE version that was much more flexible in how the user drew the letters.
And so is the equivalent that Google Voice Actions provides, apart from not being able to set appointments, I don't see anything that Siri can do that Google Voice Actions can't. The only major difference I see is natural language support with Siri, but it's still limited to the same basic list of tasks and comes with the downside of having to figure out what's being said and match that up to a particular command rather than just identifying the command.
Looking at the list of Siri features, I'm not seeing anything that makes me want Siri.
That really depends upon what they're providing and what they're charging. Guild membership in the past was hugely important as it was often times the only way in which a person could gain the ability to do the work. That's somewhat changed in recent times due to easier access to education, but even now I maintain a TESOL membership so that I can more easily keep up with developments in my field.
Even if the materials were otherwise free, there's something to be said for paying a group to screen out the crap and provide it in an easily accessible format.
But more than that, they also often serve as a way of demonstrating knowledge the way that a degree does.
Well, when you claim that something is revolutionary, you're claiming that they were in fact first. Just because you're a fan boy, doesn't mean that it's trolling to point out that Apple once again is getting to the party late and is trying to pretend like previous implementations don't exist.
True to Apple's style, they're throwing a bunch of marketing money at people trying to convince them that Apple was first, when it's demonstrably not correct.
On some level, I think you realize that it's not the case, you yourself admit that they just refined it into something useful. But, we already had useful implementations, I don't generally use them because voice recognition technology isn't really that useful in places where I want to use my phone. Sure at home I'm sure it works great, but when I'm out and about, I really don't want to be telling everybody around me what I'm doing.
Or make the Chinese do it seeing as that stunt they pulled with that anti-satellite weapon contributed so substantially to the problem in the first place.The only other cases where the US in 1985 and again in 2008. Neither event contributed significantly to the problem and the latter debris is almost certainly already out of orbit.
That was in line with my thoughts. If the devices were designed to snap out the fuel cells and reprogram the onboard logic, it could probably be made to work, at least for satellites of a similar type, but going much further than that would require technology which we don't yet have.
There's also the issue of these satellites being owned by somebody, even though they are still in orbit and unusable at the moment.
And I forgot, here's a relevant link, http://www.google.com/mobile/voice-actions/ I'm not seeing anything that Siri can do that Android can't do, with the possible exception of scheduling meetings.
Google has had voice search for quite awhile now, and the rest of the functions are what would have happened if you hooked up a voice recognition program to a virtual assistant. Unless I'm really misunderstanding this is something I could get running on my Android phone easily.
Care to provide some citations? I remember the DoJ under W having something of a scandal when some of the people doing the hiring were caught using political litmus tests.
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Because Geoge Takei also has a really wonderful voice, not to mention that Leonard Nimoy isn't too bad either.
Because it's not that hard to find somebody with a voice that most folks would like to hear. Which is a pretty serious problem with the hypothesis that it's hard to find male voices that everybody likes.
The library around here had an autodialer that would remind folks about late materials and when books were available, they used a pleasant voice from a black gentleman. It had a James Earl Jones quality to it and was quite pleasant despite being relatively unsophistication in use. Meaning that the words were taken from samples so they wouldn't quite match up even if the grammar was correct.
It is writing, sort of, but like I said it's probably more effective to have students learn short hand than it would be to learn cursive. I think the only time I use cursive on a regular basis is signing my name. For practical purposes you could just teach the students those characters in cursive as they don't need to read anybody else's signature, just identify that it matches.
You do raise a solid point though, if you're just taking notes there's a lot of words that you don't need to write, such as most prepositions and often times you don't need to write full words either.
Cursive is still useful, I find that it's a lot easier to use cursive to take notes than with block printing as it takes longer for my hand to cramp up with cursive. OTOH, it's not very useful for interpersonal communication, which is why it's been downgraded in importance. When all is said and done it would probably be more useful to teach short hand than it would be to teach cursive.
The multiple intelligences stuff really has run amok in recent years.
The reason to use a mixture isn't because some students prefer one over the other. As long as the students are comprehending the material, they'll learn it. The main reason for using a variety of styles is so that the brain can't adapt to the dominant type of input and has to figure out how to make sense from various types of lesson. Which happens to be a lot more authentic in that you don't generally get to control how information is provided to you.
It's very much like weight training, you'll ideally be varying the various variables regularly to prevent your muscles from adapting to the exercises, the brain does similar things to maintain efficiency.
I've tried that and it only works if you're in a position to identify the correct answer. I've seen students who were basically there spend a lot of time trying to get there and ultimately have no clue as to what the correct answer looks like.
Thomas Edison was renowned for trying thousands of different ways of creating a light bulb before succeeding, had he not had a way of identifying a functioning lightbulb he would likely have continued it until his death.
Perhaps, but if the entire class needs instant feed back on every step in the process the teacher is doing something wrong.
The other day I spent some time helping a student trying to enter an answer into a computer program. She knew the correct answer, but neither her nor I could figure out how to input the answer in a way that the computer program would accept. A teacher, or even a tutor, would be able to instantly recognize that the answer was correct without having to do any real thinking.
Yes, but part of growing up to be a responsible and productive adult is knowing how to manage distractions. Which isn't something they're likely to teach in college, assuming that you go, it's something that has to be instilled by somebody up until that point typically.
They're not lacking, it's just that they aren't being paid well, so rather than going into education, they go into other fields where they probably aren't known much outside the field. You do still have individuals who go into teaching anyways, where many of them burn out before making it even 5 years and go back and contribute where they're appreciated.
Computers may not be necessary outside of performing research and typing out an essay, but you'd be surprised how many occupations require computer literacy. At this point it's not unusual for people hiring for firms that do private security to require basic computer skills. And most of those jobs pay basically minimum wage with a crappy work place environment.
3D printers can print with ceramics? I'm not up on 3D printing technology, but I thought they were all using plastics or similar in the printing.
Yes, but they also study climate change which automatically negates all the good stuff they do to the smaller government lobby.
That's the price you pay for flexibility. I had similar issues with my Win mobile device, MS would allow you to draw the characters in different ways and would try to accommodate that. Palm at that time made you learn how to use Graffiti in order to enter text, however because they made you use a standard style of writing it could cut down dramatically on the possible interpretations of any written text.
In this case because Google Voice Actions is limited in what input it will receive it becomes drastically easier for the algorithms to decide what to do. That being said, I don't think that entirely explains it and I have a sneaking suspicion that Google Voice transcriptions might have something to do with it.
Those are all things you can do with Google Voice Actions. Admittedly you're restricted in terms of how you phrase it, but it's dishonest to suggest that any of that stuff doesn't work with Google Voice Actions.
Siri is ultimately at a disadvantage for taking that route, because ultimately it has to have much better comprehension of the spoken words as it can't count on matching just most of the command before worrying about what to do with the input. Basically it's the difference between Palm's Graffiti and whatever you call the MS Win CE version that was much more flexible in how the user drew the letters.
And so is the equivalent that Google Voice Actions provides, apart from not being able to set appointments, I don't see anything that Siri can do that Google Voice Actions can't. The only major difference I see is natural language support with Siri, but it's still limited to the same basic list of tasks and comes with the downside of having to figure out what's being said and match that up to a particular command rather than just identifying the command.
Looking at the list of Siri features, I'm not seeing anything that makes me want Siri.
No, what it means is that the previous fact or statement really begs a further question.
It is not to be confused with begging the question the logical fallacy.
That really depends upon what they're providing and what they're charging. Guild membership in the past was hugely important as it was often times the only way in which a person could gain the ability to do the work. That's somewhat changed in recent times due to easier access to education, but even now I maintain a TESOL membership so that I can more easily keep up with developments in my field.
Even if the materials were otherwise free, there's something to be said for paying a group to screen out the crap and provide it in an easily accessible format.
But more than that, they also often serve as a way of demonstrating knowledge the way that a degree does.
Forgive me if I was implying that Google was first here, I just happened to know that my phone has that functionality built in and has for some time.
Well, when you claim that something is revolutionary, you're claiming that they were in fact first. Just because you're a fan boy, doesn't mean that it's trolling to point out that Apple once again is getting to the party late and is trying to pretend like previous implementations don't exist.
True to Apple's style, they're throwing a bunch of marketing money at people trying to convince them that Apple was first, when it's demonstrably not correct.
On some level, I think you realize that it's not the case, you yourself admit that they just refined it into something useful. But, we already had useful implementations, I don't generally use them because voice recognition technology isn't really that useful in places where I want to use my phone. Sure at home I'm sure it works great, but when I'm out and about, I really don't want to be telling everybody around me what I'm doing.
Or make the Chinese do it seeing as that stunt they pulled with that anti-satellite weapon contributed so substantially to the problem in the first place.The only other cases where the US in 1985 and again in 2008. Neither event contributed significantly to the problem and the latter debris is almost certainly already out of orbit.
That was in line with my thoughts. If the devices were designed to snap out the fuel cells and reprogram the onboard logic, it could probably be made to work, at least for satellites of a similar type, but going much further than that would require technology which we don't yet have.
There's also the issue of these satellites being owned by somebody, even though they are still in orbit and unusable at the moment.
And I forgot, here's a relevant link, http://www.google.com/mobile/voice-actions/ I'm not seeing anything that Siri can do that Android can't do, with the possible exception of scheduling meetings.
Google has had voice search for quite awhile now, and the rest of the functions are what would have happened if you hooked up a voice recognition program to a virtual assistant. Unless I'm really misunderstanding this is something I could get running on my Android phone easily.
Given what I saw on http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/, it doesn't appear that it's particularly sophisticated either.
Skip the racing stripes, speed holes are where it's at.
Care to provide some citations? I remember the DoJ under W having something of a scandal when some of the people doing the hiring were caught using political litmus tests.