Category: Education
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Robotic tutors. Hubris…
The use of robotic tutors in primary school classrooms is one step closer according to research recently published in the open access journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. (1) We are afraid to be parents. And we like our children to teach us. We hated our Father. Because we, His children, knew better…
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Learning.
Are your lectures droning on? Change it up every 10 minutes with more active teaching techniques and more students will succeed, researchers say. A new study finds that undergraduate students in classes with traditional stand-and-deliver lectures are 1.5 times more likely to fail than students in classes that use more stimulating, so-called active learning methods.…
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Science Education. Is it required?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has never been in the business of supporting pre-college science education and promoting health literacy to the public, says NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak. And now it’s official NIH policy, too. (1) It seems bad to not have a leading research institute help in education. But what should…
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Mind washing on small children: The new hope...
You will be shocked at how much your child's education is directed... Take Japan for example. A country the citizens of which cannot quite understand why their neighbours hate them. A country which still wants nuclear energy, despite the fact that it is the only country which was hit by a nuclear bomb. The solution…
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