Thu, Aug 27
Topic 1. Human Learning & Judgment
How Do Humans Learn? Sociocultural Foundations
Please complete the tasks and readings listed below before class on Thu, Aug 27.
Tasks
Career Module
PathwayU. Complete the Interests, Values, Personality, and Workplace Preferences assessments before class. Use the access instructions. Link
If you have done these assessments in a past course, review your prior results and/or take them again. Email career@unca.edu if you need help accessing PathwayU.
Required Readings
Reading
Teachers College, Columbia University. (n.d.). Convocation Masters III: Medalist Luis C. Moll [Video]. YouTube. Link
(start at around minute 6).
Each card below unpacks one account of how learning actually happens. Click a card to preview it, or open the full page for the complete write-up – worth holding up against whatever an AI system's makers mean when they say it 'learns.'
Topic / Focus
Today you ask what makes human intelligence distinctive: knowledge, meaning, culture, and social learning. A career bridge on values, interests, and coaching access connects self-knowledge to the course’s broader questions about what intelligence is for.
Guiding Questions
- What features of human intelligence resist reduction to computation?
- How do knowledge, meaning, and culture shape what counts as intelligent behavior?
- How does the way a technology is described shape how it is governed?
Before next class
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