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Can gamification improve students’ motivation and problem-solving skills?

Scientix

One such study was conducted to investigate whether gamification can improve students’ motivation to learn physics and problem-solving skills. The action research was conducted with 21 students in 10 th grade, most of whom have a low academic achievement and a general lack of interest in learning natural science subjects.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

Given a defined “goal”, an AI can automatically work towards achieving it. Most of our existing intuition about “machinery” and “automation” comes from a kind of “clockwork” view of engineering—in which we specifically build systems component by component to achieve objectives we want. And that’s where we humans come in.

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