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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

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Brain science research is increasingly bolstering the idea that math instruction rooted in culturally relevant problem-solving helps students draw from their lived experiences and activates distinct areas of the brain, producing durable and deep learning.

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AI in Higher Ed: Using What We Already Know About Good Teaching Practices

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This was the epitome of knowledge and learning before the internet became widely available. Telling a student to go to the library to access a physical copy of something is the outlier instead of the norm. Now, if my child asks me a question about anything, we can Google it on my phone from wherever we happen to be.

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How can intelligent systems revolutionise healthcare?

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Whether it’s tracking physical activity, monitoring vital signs, analysing sleep patterns or brain activities, intelligent systems can provide real-time feedback and recommendations to encourage healthier habits, behaviours, and early and accurate diagnosis and prognosis that may not be evident to the human eyes,” explains Narges.

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What is the 21st Century Lesson Plan?

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Students use habits of mind like critical thinking, deep learning, and evidence-based decisions to decide on the right answers. Just as students have learned how to survive in a physical community of strangers, they must learn to do the same in a digital neighborhood. Keyboarding skills are granular.

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Plugging in: directly linking the brain to a computer

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The accuracy of machine learning provides another limitation, though this is a rapidly advancing field. Recent progress in deep learning provides substantial potential benefits for neural networks, computer vision and BCI techniques,” says CT. Download the article. Reference [link]. Link to the activity sheet.

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Online battles: combatting false information and reducing online risks

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Deepfake — manipulation of existing digital media (image, video and/or audio) – e.g., by swapping faces and changing voices – or creation of new media, typically using machine learning-based techniques such as deep learning. FACT-CHECKING. Fact-checkers can be humans or machines.

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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

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The cyber-physical system we are developing uses a combination of wind sensors, optimisation algorithms and artificial intelligence to search for combinations of façade positions and wind flow conditions that limit building vibration,” says Jared. A close-up of THOR, a computer used primarily for machine learning tasks.