Roger Schank started working in linguistics only to realize that he really cared about getting computers to be easier to talk to, so he switched over to working in artificial intelligence. Then, he realized that you couldn\u2019t talk to a computer that didn\u2019t understand you and didn\u2019t learn from any conversation or experiences it might have had. So he began to work on understanding how people learn and how computers could learn in the way that people do. While he was trying to get computers to learn, the school system was trying to get Roger Schank\u2019s children to learn. Shank noticed that both the methods and the content used in each case were completely different. Schank was concerned with how a computer would acquire practical knowledge and get better at making plans and accomplishing goals. On the other hand, schools seemed to hold the collective belief that the essence of learning was the acquisition of new information about facts, rather than improving and expanding one\u2019s own internal processes and abilities. <\/p>\n
All this was going on while Shank was Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at Yale University. (He had previously been a professor at Stanford.)<\/p>\n
In 1989, Andersen Consulting decided to give Schank funding to further experiment with his ideas for what came to be called online education if he was willing to shift his focus to training their employees. Schank believed that there was still much to be learned before he approached the schools, so he was happy to begin with adult learning. He moved to Northwestern University where he was given a chaired professorship and established the Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS). <\/p>\n
Schank eventually grew tired of academics, whom he believes have the wrong educational model. In 2001, he built a whole new model for Carnegie Mellon\u2019s Silicon Valley campus where students do not attend class and only learn by doing with mentoring if needed by faculty. While this model is still in use there the model was deemed to be too threatening by Carnegie Mellon.<\/p>\n
In 2002 Schank started Socratic Arts, a company that builds learn by doing training for businesses and in 2011 started XTOL, a company that builds online degree programs and continuing education courses for universities. <\/p>\n
For more information, check out the videos or click here…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Roger Schank started working in linguistics only to realize that he really cared about getting computers to be easier to talk to, so he switched over to working in artificial intelligence. Then, he realized that you couldn\u2019t talk to a computer that didn\u2019t understand you and didn\u2019t learn from any conversation or experiences it might […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":51510,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[]},"sa_speaker_category":[83,39,36,37,33,34],"sa_language":[250],"sa_employability":[188,173],"class_list":["post-77973","sa_speaker","type-sa_speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sa_speaker_category-creativity","sa_speaker_category-entrepreneurship","sa_speaker_category-future-trends","sa_speaker_category-leadership-strategy","sa_speaker_category-science","sa_speaker_category-technology-innovation"],"acf":{"sa_introduction":"Roger Schank started working in linguistics only to realize that he really cared about getting computers to be easier to talk to, so he switched over to working in artificial intelligence. Then, he realized that you couldn\u2019t talk to a computer that didn\u2019t understand you and didn\u2019t learn from any conversation or experiences it might have had. So he began to work on understanding how people learn and how computers could learn in the way that people do. While he was trying to get computers to","sa_one_liner":"One of the world\u00b4s leading visionaries in Artificial Intelligence, Learning Theory, Cognitive Science and the building of virtual learning environments.","sa_name_title":"","sa_region":[],"sa_degree":"","sa_stars":"","sa_maglr_ids":null,"sa_publications":null,"sa_socials":null,"sa_subjects":[{"sa_subjects_title":"The building of virtual learning environments (the trouble with e-learning)","sa_subjects_information":""},{"sa_subjects_title":"Why Learning by doing works and why learning by telling does not","sa_subjects_information":""},{"sa_subjects_title":"Story Centered Curricula for Schools, Universities and Corporations","sa_subjects_information":""},{"sa_subjects_title":"How Humans Acquire, Store, and Retrieve Knowledge","sa_subjects_information":""},{"sa_subjects_title":"Why school must change and how it can change","sa_subjects_information":""},{"sa_subjects_title":"Why Corporations lose their Memories and how to change that","sa_subjects_information":""},{"sa_subjects_title":"Artificial Intelligence: getting computers be smarter","sa_subjects_information":""}],"sa_faq_items":null,"sa_minimum_price":"0","sa_maximum_price":"0","sa_banner_image_id":null,"sa_videos":[{"sa_video_title":"Revolution in Higher Education - E.U. Accredited MBA Online by Dr. Roger Schank","sa_video_embed":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OVayKe_o55k"},{"sa_video_title":"1of4 ROGER SCHANK \"Future of Education\"_Madrid_2010","sa_video_embed":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jEDNv9CNf7w"}]},"yoast_head":"\n