http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/12/07/google-goggles-a-new-way-to-search-with-pictures/ Weblog of Wesley Fryer Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/12/07/google-goggles-a-new-way-to-search-with-pictures/comment-page-1/#comment-120085 Frank LaBanca Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:52:20 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=3958#comment-120085 Talk about a visit from Christmas past . . . A few years ago, I worked and mentored a student who was into neural networks. She (a high school junior, at that point) had worked on independent neural network projects for two years. She developed a neural network that was capable of image to language recognition. Her system worked for 5 different languages and quite a number of images. Her application was to click the picture with a cell phone and then the network would recognize what the image was and translate it for you. Very clever and very effective. Her project won first place at the State <a href="www.ctjshs.uconn.edu" rel="nofollow">Connecticut Junior Science and Humanities Symposium</a> and the <a href="www.sciencehorizons.org" rel="nofollow">Science Horizons Science Fair</a>. More importantly, it captured the attention of both students and practicing scientists and engineers. And that, I would boldly say, is where we want our students to be, not only the problem solvers, but the creative problem finders, capable of developing meaningful, authentic topics that are appropriate for study. Now how do we as <a href="http://problemfinding.labanca.net/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=330" rel="nofollow">teachers make it happen effectively</a>? Talk about a visit from Christmas past . . . A few years ago, I worked and mentored a student who was into neural networks. She (a high school junior, at that point) had worked on independent neural network projects for two years. She developed a neural network that was capable of image to language recognition. Her system worked for 5 different languages and quite a number of images. Her application was to click the picture with a cell phone and then the network would recognize what the image was and translate it for you. Very clever and very effective. Her project won first place at the State Connecticut Junior Science and Humanities Symposium and the Science Horizons Science Fair. More importantly, it captured the attention of both students and practicing scientists and engineers. And that, I would boldly say, is where we want our students to be, not only the problem solvers, but the creative problem finders, capable of developing meaningful, authentic topics that are appropriate for study. Now how do we as teachers make it happen effectively?

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