COMPUTER BASED LEARNING -

Here is why the translator and interpreter business will be dead for most everyday people (besides high level talks such as UN and EU conferences/government).


COMPUTER BASED LEARNING -
Learning algorithms - a sort of system that is able to learn logical things (such as language); just put a massive amount of data (i.e. language) into the system and it will begin to understand.

"learning algorithm does: adjusts when you are tested so that you always have to struggle a little bit, but you are generally successful"
Read more: http://technology.inquirer.net/…/the-new-candy-crush-chines…

It is related to this: (TED talks: computers that can learn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4kyRyKyOpo

Instead of programming (which is like a form of deduction - learning through a set of written rules), using learning algorithms computers can learn just like any child can through induction (that is experience a whole range of sensory data and from those data look and see if you can see any kind of underlying patterns - gradually those patterns become more sophisticated after being tested and tested again in feedback loops so that you can automatically learn things like... cough whole languages?)

www.andysteachingstrategies.com - look here for refreshing teaching strategies and reflective practice.