Tag: learning
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Creating new things… Forgetting old ones…
An expert in creativity and innovation is calling for schools and universities to increase their emphasis on teaching creativity, as new research shows it is a core competency across all disciplines and critical for ensuring future job success. (1) Creativity. So much cherished in today's world. So much pre-occupied we are. With creating new things.…
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Improved engagement. With no engagement.
A Danish university lecturer experiments with banning screens in discussion lessons. A new study looks at the results, which include greater student presence, improved engagement and deeper learning. (1) Improved engagement somewhere entails reduced engagement somewhere else. Isn’t this obvious? Less engagement to a mobile phone means more engagement to the classroom. More engagement to…
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I learn. You learn. We learn. (nothing)
"I learn," "you learn," "she learns," "they learn," yet, according to a surprising new linguistic study, in countries where the dominant language allows personal pronouns such as 'I' to be omitted, learning suffers. (1) A more or less logical conclusion. Learning is about you increasing your knowledge. While being, on the other hand, is about…
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AI. Positive. Negative. One. Zero.
Classifying things is critical for our daily lives. For example, we have to detect spam mail, fake political news, as well as more mundane things such as objects or faces. When using AI, such tasks are based on "classification technology" in machine learning - having the computer learn using the boundary separating positive and negative…
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Learning…
In order to learn about the world, an animal needs to do more than just pay attention to its surroundings. It also needs to learn which sights, sounds and sensations in its environment are the most important and monitor how the importance of those details change over time. Yet how humans and other animals track…
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