ELA 에세이 — 기술과 교육, 인간만의 감각과 경험에 대한 성찰
2044 Jaesang Lee.
The author, Molly Worthen deeply fears of the use of technologies in education. And I pondered about the essence of education and the future of our class while reading this article. During this semester, we deeply discussed and thought about the attention in diverse perspective, and we finally viewed the attention as generative. All of this process made me confront the reality, and think about our future. A lot of school is implementing the 1-to-1-laptop policy, and our experience-based education is shifting to the screen-based, online-based education. Before our seminar, I think I just thought this situation as just one of the process of the world. But after reading and discussing about lot of article, I thought that we should protect our pure education – the pure sense of our attention. In the text ‘trillion dollars tech company’, I was really impressed by Simone Weil’s definition of attention. Weil suggested and viewed the attention in the different way from Broadbent. Weil defined the attention as pure value (beauty, goodness, truth) and mentioned that it can’t be controlled or utilized by others. Only myself can own it. I also found that Weil’s definition can be connected to Fasano’s statement. He also criticized about the behavior how we view the education, and suggested that we should find our own values. He interpreted the emergence of AI as opportunity to seek our pure value, as Simone Weil asserted. During the whole seminar session, including this text, I thought the essence is to find our own value, not just follow the route that technology and AI serve. I think I got the insight from the last sentence of Fasano’s poem, ‘For a student who used AI to write a paper, ‘Love is for the ones who love to work.” I interpreted this line as ‘We can find our own pure values by trying and challenging, not hesitating’. We should increase the real-world experience and form social-relationship, which is most important and essential part when we live our life. This is also the thing that Ms. Champney mentioned in this article. Kids lack their ability to interact with people, so they hide beside the machines, and the screen-based education. The next question that I thought was – ‘Then, how should we find our things to truly pay attention? What is the thing that AI can’t do, and what is the thing that only human can do?’. And I found the insight from the Burnett’s article, ‘Will the humanities survive AI?’. I was impressed by the anecdote of Pado, who is the music composer. And he found that AI can interpret and understand the emotion, but AI can’t feel it. I thought it is the keystone for our future, and our future education system. We should try to ‘feel’ what we learn, and ‘think’ about it, not just pick the right answer for the scores. As the protagonist of the Whitman’s poem walked through out the lecture room, we should pursue feeling-base education. I think it’s the most sterling insight that I learned through this seminar sessions. I was also the person who was focused on just picking the right answer, without pondering and feeling the essence of the learning-stuffs. As Marshall McLuhan mentioned, Medium is the message. We should be aware about the medium which we perceive through it. And we should be aware what the most strong and important sense is our attention, because we are all the crazy smart creature, that don’t reflex everything we see.