just finished reading "There are No Children Here" by Alex Kotlowitz, its an amazing book about these two boys growing up in the Chicago public housing. I didn't think I would like it but I loved it. The guy who wrote it Alex Kotlowitz is an awesome writer and journalist for the Wall Street Journal. Another WSJ journalist not so much, Carl Bialik's newest article left me fuming.
He wrote about Wolfram Alpha, and while at least he didn't sat it was a "google-killer" like so many other ignorant articles, his was just as oblivious to the wonders of Wolfram Alpha.
Even the title "Sum Help: New search engine for Mathletes" made me scream.
Then he said it was ruining teachers lesson plans, letting students cheat more easily. The only lesson plans that Alpha is ruining is plans by bad teachers. If you don't make your students show their work in Math then they can cheat, in fact, Alpha may even improve teachers, because now they have to work around Wolfram Alpha. Wolfram Alpha helps me with math, I can now check my answers to see if they are right and do them again until I get the right answer. This is helping my math skills.
As for Quote: "some professors fear it will reinforce the 'devaluation of knowledge.'" Who thinks it is bad for anyone who has internet to be able to find answers quick and swiftly? People whose jobs it is to make everything more pompous and seem more difficult than it is because they are trying to save their jobs. And those are the people who fear the 'devaluation of knowledge'.
Carl Bialik, might just be one of them.
His tone throughout the article is scathing and puts the Wolfram Team in the bad guy seat. For example, quote: "The company behind Wolfram Alpha vows to keep expanding and improving it-" "while harried teachers get headaches redesigning tests and homework".
"The team behind (insert villian here) vow to keep expanding" That sounds a little... comic book doesn't it? Joker vs. Batman sorta? But its nor Alpha vs. teachers at all. Alpha will help anyone with internet be able to learn, isn't this something teachers want? Wolfram Alpha wants to make "systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone" doen't teachers want that to? Shouldn't teachers be joining with Alpha to help make classrooms better? not complain?
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