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Publicado en OLDaily el 12/04/2021
Connecting the Dots: Dr. Barbara Oakley on the Science of How We Learn
Publicado en OLDaily el 09/04/2021
There's a lot to like in this interview and I certainly think Barbara Oakley has a handle on the subject. At times, though, I find it hard to tease out what she means when she blends cognitive psychology and neuroscience. The conversation flows in and out of metaphors quite smoothly (not a bad thing!) When she says, for example, "Your working memory can reach in and gather sets of neural links, holding them as you’re manipulating information to solve a...
Leer másProctorio Is Using Racist Algorithms to Detect Faces
Publicado en OLDaily el 09/04/2021
Given what we know of contemporary AI, this should come as a surprise to no one, but it's important to actually do the research and generate the data. Here's the gist: "A student researcher has reverse-...
Leer másElon Musk’s Neuralink says this monkey is playing Pong with its mind
Publicado en OLDaily el 09/04/2021
As Elizabeth Lopatto correctly points out, what's new about this announcement is the way it was announced. "This style of scientific release is unusual; ordinarily, videos like this are supplementary material to peer-reviewed papers published in scientific journals. Those...
Leer másWe’re Beating Systems Change to Death
Publicado en OLDaily el 09/04/2021
This article begins with a good criticism of systems change, then recommends an alternative approach that essentially amounts to the same thing. Oh, but the difference is explained by saying "the critical difference is that it is emergent." I agree that...
Leer másChina to tighten grip on edtech industry and online learning
Publicado en OLDaily el 09/04/2021
I find that the title of this article is a dramatic overstatement of what's actually contained in the content. There, we read that the government is recommending that departments "limit the times at which primary and secondary school students take part in online learning to ensure...
Leer másPublicado en OLDaily el 08/04/2021
'HyFlex' is one of those concepts that was developed in a hurry in response to the need to adapt teaching and learning during the pandemic. It's a bit like what we used to call 'blended learning' in that it incorporates both online and in-person activities (sometimes, unfortunately,...
Leer másIgniting Change: Final Report and Recommendations
Publicado en OLDaily el 08/04/2021
I would be among the first to acknowledge that the issues raised around equity and social justice in this report (...
Leer másBeing in a big factory, why don't I speak human words?
Publicado en OLDaily el 08/04/2021
This is an automated translation (original in Chinese here) of an article describing the rise of specialized jargon in the Chinese internet community. The authors in...
Leer másAI-enabled Adaptive Learning Systems: A Systematic Mapping of the Literature
Publicado en OLDaily el 08/04/2021
A lot of this paper is dedicated to the usual...
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