Week 9 blog

Should education stretch a person? This is a tough question, but to answer it should be relatively simple. The answer is in short: Yes. Any form of education should stretch and expand ones mind to allow for new ideas to embed themselves into our brains. Education allows people to know things they didn’t know before, therefore stretching how far their knowledge can reach. It obligates people to elongate their horizons and realise new ideas. Education should make people think and reach the boundaries of what that person is capable of, and then go beyond them. Education should not be easy, it should be a challenge, and it should stretch what is actually possible. Everyone is still learning, and everyone is being stretched to his or her limits everyday in the cause of learning something new.

 Personal preference in education provides many potential problems for people. For example, if children were left to their personal preferences at an early age, most kids would just want to do P.E, Metalwork or cooking classes rather than learn the basics of English, Maths and Science. If it were left down to kids then the education system would be in tatters with millions of children coming out of school illiterate because they have not been taught how to read because they didn’t want to learn. That is why the education system is like it is today, with all the bases covered to provide the broadest base of knowledge to springboard children into doing well in later life.

            Another way in which personal preference and culture could cause potential problems for people in the field of education is that of language. Some peoples’ preference is to learn in a foreign language. This may hamper their chances of being successful in this country later on in life. It is very difficult to get a job if you do not speak the native language. It is also difficult to be taught in a foreign language, as the teacher will have to be multi-lingual to him/herself be able to get on in life also. This creates more and more problems, so personal preference may have to be sacrificed in order to get on better in later life.

 The semantic web is an extension of what we currently use as the World Wide Web. It is a form of information sharing that is understandable by computers as well as humans. It will eventually speed up things like search engines and make them more user friendly. By allowing the computer to understand the input and information it will be able to perform the more boring tasks like transferring, sorting, and sharing much of this information allowing the user to do more enjoyable things.

            Web 3.0 is a ‘back ended’ upgrade to the basic Internet service that is in place now. Its attempts are to combine user friendliness and smart technology in one complete package. It is suggested that web 3.0 will be able to recognise natural sentences and process them as a whole, rather than constructing its own meanings out of key words within that sentence. It will be able to read millions of texts at once and process which ones will be most relevant to you. This will possibly be the downfall of things such as Google, which relies on its key word platform to give out answers based on the words you enter.