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Adaptive learning
When most people use this phrase, what they’re really discussing is either a) single-point adaptivity, which evaluates a student’s performance at one point in time in order to determine the level of instruction or material she receives from that point on, or b) adaptive…
Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Viaggiare vedendo solo aeroporti e alberghi
Se viaggiate molto, lo fate spesso frequentando solo gli aeroporti, o i grandi alberghi, senza poter visitare i luoghi dove andate. Non avete mai tempo di conoscere e imparare.
Da uomo libero si torna a credere negli altri
Solo ora, solo come uomo libero riesco a percepire la grande fortuna di ritornare a credere nell’incontro con gli altri, la grande occasione che ciò rappresenta per capire, ascoltare, imparare a moderarmi, assumere informazioni che mi riguardano, che condivido. Oggi se qualcuno…
Scrivere e tornare a studiare
Scrivo. Da quando ho fatto downshifting ho pubblicato un romanzo, un saggio, un certo numero di articoli su giornali e riviste, e ho lavorato parecchio sui blog dove scrivo. Sto iniziando il mio nuovo romanzo, una storia di pirati che si svolge nel XVI secolo. Ci studio da due…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Reinforcement learning inspired by the brain
DeepMind’s algorithm is directly inspired by theories about how the human brain stores, retrieves, and learns information—called reinforcement learning. The founder of the company, Demis Hassabis, is himself a neuroscientist who began his career as a game developer. Using…
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Babies are not blank slates
Babies are highly attuned to these perceptions of safety, though they may not look it. At first blush, babies seem mostly preoccupied with more mundane biological processes, like eating and pooping and spitting up on your shirt. This fooled a lot of researchers into believing…
Human learning is fundamentally relational
What is strong enough, Kuhl and other researchers wondered, to keep that door from closing? Say you expose your baby, in the critical period, to a tape of someone speaking a foreign language. Does the brain stay open for phonemic business? The answer is no. How about a DVD of…
Fertilizers and toxins for a smart baby
Regardless of their genes, you can help your children mobilize their intelligence as fully as Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, or the most successful innovators working today. Just how do you grow a smart baby? We’re thinking in terms of soil, so it makes sense to formulate…
The brain learns in order to survive
First, I need to correct a misconception. Many well-meaning moms and dads think their child’s brain is interested in learning. That is not accurate. The brain is not interested in learning. The brain is interested in surviving. Every ability in our intellectual tool kit was…
Emotional regulation predicts cognitive performance
These data flatly state that emotional regulation—reining in impulses—predicts better cognitive performance. That’s a bombshell of an idea. It directly ties intellectual horsepower to emotional processing. I am not dismissing rote drills, as a memorized database is an extremely…
Praising a child for being smart backfires
How can you get that kind of effort from your child? Surprisingly, it’s how you praise him. What you praise defines what your child perceives success to be. Here is where parents make a common mistake—one that often creates the saddest sight a teacher can behold: a bright child…
Growth mindset: praise the effort
What should Ethan’s parents have done? Research reveals a simple solution. Rather than praising him for being smart, they should have praised him for working hard. On the successful completion of a test, they should not have said, “I’m so proud of you. You’re such a bright…
Baby is an inexperienced ally, not an enemy
Remember, baby is not your enemy in his struggle to learn to sleep independently, just a very inexperienced ally. Your goals are naturally aligned, after all. From an evolutionary perspective, it is in his brain’s best interest to learn how to stay awake during the day, then…
How To Leave Academia
Data science as a way out of academia
The most accessible job to a typical physicist cum programmer goes by the job title Data Scientist. It's also one of the more high paying jobs in technology. Probably the best way to describe the job is 'be the programmer who understands regression and confidence…
Improving The Human Factors Aspect Of Database Interactions.
Introspection (hci research method)
This research method depends on an individual’s sensitivity to the cognitive skills required while performing one or more of the five tasks: learning, composition, comprehension, debugging, and modification. [..]These judgments are highly influenced by training and often do not…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
Machine learning spans symbols and networks
Machine Learning is a branch of AI that spans both the classical symbolic approach and connectionism. Here, models of learning capture the ability of an agent to improve itself in light of information in the environment. Often, the ability of connectionist systems to learn is…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
La saggezza che diventa tua
La saggezza che hai cercato a lungo in biblioteca ora brilla in ogni foglio, perché adesso è tua. Hermann Hesse
Tre vie alla saggezza
Con tre metodi possiamo imparare la saggezza: in primo luogo, dalla riflessione, che è più nobile, in secondo luogo, per imitazione, che è più facile; e la terza per esperienza, che è la più amara. (Confucio )
Shivon Zilis - Machine Intelligence
Machine intelligence
I mean “machine intelligence” as a unifying term for what others call machine learning and artificial intelligence. (Some others have used the term before, without quite describing it or understanding how laden this field has been with debates over descriptions.) I would have…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Focusing on technique is like cramming
To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school.
No true mastery without daily effort
You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
Admitting ignorance is the first step to learning
If you don’t let a teacher know at what level you are—by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance—you will not learn or grow. You cannot pretend for long, for you will eventually be found out. Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. Thoreau…
Two paradigm shifts for reading this book
Before we begin work on the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, I would like to suggest two paradigm shifts that will greatly increase the value you will receive from this material.
Read as if you had to teach it
Second, I would suggest that you shift your paradigm of your own involvement in this material from the role of learner to that of teacher. Take an inside-out approach, and read with the purpose in mind of sharing or discussing what you learn with someone else within 48 hours…
Teaching what you read deepens understanding
I guarantee that if you approach the material in each of the following chapters in this way, you will not only better remember what you read, but your perspective will be expanded, your understanding deepened, and your motivation to apply the material increased.
The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon)
Dewey: philosophy as the general theory of education
Dewey sees education as the dynamic and continuous development of democratic life, what he called ‘reconstruction’, and rightly believed that society cannot transform itself without paying scrupulous attention to pedagogy. Dewey saw learning as more important than knowing and…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Animal memory as learned response
In contrast, most, if not all, animal memory is simply a form of learned response. Your dog remembers you in that it recognises you as its pack leader, but it is very unlikely that it fondly recalls past walks, as you do. That difference is a core part of what enables you to…
H.M. and the varieties of memory
H.M.’s loss was an immeasurable gain to the science of memory. Experiments conducted by Milner showed that although H.M. formed no new memories, he could learn new tasks. This showed that episodic memory – recollection of facts and events – worked quite differently from…
The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
Validated learning through scientific experimentation
I identify who is an entrepreneur, define a startup, and articulate a new way for startups to gauge if they are making progress, called validated learning. To achieve that learning, we’ll see that startups—in a garage or inside an enterprise—can use scientific experimentation…
From lean manufacturing to the Lean Startup
The Lean Startup takes its name from the lean manufacturing revolution that Taiichi Ohno and Shigeo Shingo are credited with developing at Toyota. Lean thinking is radically altering the way supply chains and production systems are run. Among its tenets are drawing on the…
Steering with the Build-Measure-Learn loop
The Lean Startup method, in contrast, is designed to teach you how to drive a startup. Instead of making complex plans that are based on a lot of assumptions, you can make constant adjustments with a steering wheel called the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop. Through this…
Learning is the unit of progress
I’ve come to believe that learning is the essential unit of progress for startups. The effort that is not absolutely necessary for learning what customers want can be eliminated. I call this validated learning because it is always demonstrated by positive improvements in the…
If you cannot fail, you cannot learn
These are some of the questions teams struggle to answer if they have followed the “let’s just ship a product and see what happens” plan. I call this the “just do it” school of entrepreneurship after Nike’s famous slogan.1 Unfortunately, if the plan is to see what happens, a…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Children learn by doing
Dewey played a central role in the development of—and is most associated with—the progressive education movement in the United States. In Europe, Maria Montessori and Jean Piaget were spreading the same message. These early theorists all agreed that children learn from doing…
Education is living, not preparation for it
“I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living” (8). Dewey believed that education is part of life. He believed that as long as people are alive, they are learning, and education should address what the person needs to know…
Mis-educative experiences
Dewey avoided the either/or discussions so common to educational philosophy. He believed that the real issue is not a matter of new versus old approaches to education but rather what conditions make any experience worthy of being called “educational.” Dewey insisted that…
Dewey's criteria for an educational experience
Dewey thought that rather than saying, “The children will enjoy this,” teachers need to ask the following questions when they plan activities for children: How does this expand on what these children already know? How will this activity help this child grow? What skills are…
Children learn best through the senses
She believed children learn best through sensory experiences. She thought that the teacher has a responsibility to provide wonderful sights, textures, sounds, and smells for children. She also believed that part of sensory experience for children is having tools and utensils…
Montessori's legacy: independence and repetition
Montessori understood that it is sometimes much easier to do something for children than it is to take the time and energy to teach them to do it for themselves. But she also believed that for children to grow and develop skills, the adults in their lives need to make…
Developmental tasks can always be renegotiated
He believed it was always possible to go back and renegotiate issues from a previous stage of development. He was convinced that the tasks of each stage continue to present themselves at times of crisis in love and work throughout our lives. Though it is true that basic trust…
Initiative versus guilt
The third and last stage of Erikson’s theory that addresses the early childhood years is initiative versus guilt. Most four-and five-year-olds are at this stage, which is therefore a key one for preschool and kindergarten teachers to know about. The developmental task of this…
Piaget asked how children come to know
Although Piaget is frequently referred to as a psychologist, he was really an epistemologist (someone who studies the nature and beginning of knowledge). It is this piece of his work that has made Piaget a major contributor to the knowledge base of educational psychology. While…
Construction is superior to instruction
While others of his time argued that learning is either intrinsic (coming from the child) or extrinsic (imposed by the environment or taught by adults), Piaget thought that neither position by itself explains learning. Rather, he thought that children’s interactions with their…
Disequilibrium and accommodation
Piaget believed that in the preoperational stage, children form ideas from their direct experiences in life. This is why telling children something is less effective than finding a way to help them think their own way through a problem. For example, if a child sees birds fly…
Ask questions rather than tell
Piaget’s theory tells us that it will be more effective to ask questions that help children think through the problem on their own than to tell them flat out, “An iron would hurt the baby.” If they construct that knowledge for themselves by puzzling through the teacher’s…
Open-ended activities and questions
Open-ended activities do not have a predetermined result or product. For example, when a teacher plans a science experiment to which she already knows the answer, the experiment is not open-ended. However, when children plant seeds and chart the days until the shoot breaks…
Play and language build on each other
Like Piaget, Vygotsky believed that much learning takes place when children play. He believed that language and development build on each other. When children play, they constantly use language. They determine the conditions of the make-believe. They discuss roles and objects…
The zone of proximal development
One of the most important concepts of Vygotsky’s theory is that of the zone of proximal development, or ZPD. Vygotsky defined this as the distance between the most difficult task a child can do alone and the most difficult task a child can do with help. He believed that a child…
Scaffolding a child's learning
Vygotsky referred to the assistance a teacher or peer offers a child as scaffolding. A house painter working on a house uses a scaffold to reach parts of the house that would otherwise be out of reach. In the same way, adults and peers can help a child “reach” a new concept or…
Self-regulation beats early academics
There is growing evidence today that suggests that a preschool-age child’s ability to apply cognitive control, also called executive function, is a better predictor of later school success than any academic learning acquired during the preschool years. Executive function…
Villa Metaphora (Andrea De Carlo)
Frequenta i migliori e perdici le spese
La segretaria del marito al telefono ha insistito a spiegare che pagano tutto loro anche per lei, anche eventuali extra di qualsiasi genere. Quando una è una star del cinema americano di quel livello non è che ragioni come le persone normali che devono stare attente a questo e…