Module 6 Assignment 2

Making Sense What Children See
     One resource that represents innovative and inspiring approaches for fostering learning during early childhood is titled, “How We are Teaching Computers to Understand Pictures.” This resource is in the Fostering Early Learning section of the optional resource for this week. Fei-Fei Li is the creator of “smart vision.” This concept is a form or related to visual intelligence. The first step in this concept is to bring “computer vision” and “machine learning,” together. Ms.Li’s research team actually found an algorithm used years ago that was compatible with their set of instructions. An algorithm is a set of instructions, sometimes called a procedure or a function that is used to perform a certain task. The task in this case was instructions to teach the computers how to understand pictures.

     In other words, Ms. Li’s team found a way for a computer to see more than one object in a picture so that young children from infancy to age 3 could make sense of what they see in a picture. For example, if there was a picture of a cat sitting on a bed, the computer will labeled each object in the picture along with the cat. Ms.Li and her team did not stop here. They found a way for the computer to describe the picture or images in a complete sentence. With the help of other countries they collected up to 50 billion images.
      
     Ms. Li’s was inspired and motivated by her son to help young children make sense of what they see. Ms.Li (2015) stated “By age 3 young children would have viewed millions of pictures of the real world” (Li, 2015). The National Association for the Education of Young Children. (2002–2012) position statement also takes a stand with the integration of technology and interactive media in early childhood programs. In the article “Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8 NAEYC provides guidance for early childhood educators in the use of interactive media in ways that can optimize opportunities for young children’s cognitive, social, emotional, and linguistic development (p.2). (College, 2012).

     This example has influence my thoughts on effective learning experiences for young children because having technology for learning and development brings quality in the classrooms and the programs. There is positive potential in using technology and media for child development with guidance

References
College, N. A. (2012). NAEYC. Retrieved from NAEYC Postion Statements and Standards: http://www.naeyc.org/content/technology-and-young-children
Li, F.-F. (2015, March). How we're teaching computers to understand pictures. Retrieved from TED: http://www.ted.com/talks/browse


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