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Category Archives: Direct Learning
Brain Implants to Repair Brain Injuries Research
DARPA of the U.S. Department of Defense issued an RFP to issue $14.9 million to fund a research project about brain implants to repair brain injuries. The project aims to find a better way to analyze brain activity in order … Continue reading
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Review with aLEAP of ChemBook Videos for High Schools
LPH has posted a series of videos made during his high school intro chemistry class. I’ve clicked through several of them to test the utility of aLEAP to assess instruction. First, I didn’t realize how much chem I remembered, and … Continue reading
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Learn Chinese with Tablet PC
Ray recommends My First Chinese Reader for young people. He calls it “a good chinese learning textbook for kids. Really Helpful.” He says this on my post about learning Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian online. The link on that post broke … Continue reading
“Rationed Learning: …’Yes, but … ‘ ” Report Revisited
Dr. Bonnie Doowrite, Dr. I. T. Benn-Dunn, Ms. Donna Pahl (Wilkinson), and Dr. W. E. Doynit review the report Rationed Learning: A Conspiracy of ‘Yes, but … ‘ Doynit cited this report in the proposal to open the New Era … Continue reading
Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009 Update
Microsoft Imagine Cup, the “Olympics of Technology,” is the preeminent student technology competition in the world. In 2009, over 300,000 students from 100 countries are vying for a chance to compete in the Worldwide Finals in Cairo and all trying … Continue reading
Machine Vision Demos
The Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) offers 22 video demonstrations of machine vision laboratory projects. More and updated versions of projects exist under non-disclosure agreements. Demos include virtual boxing with XBOX 360, control and manipulate projected objects, cyber presence in … Continue reading
Video Games as State-of-the-Art Learning Tools
K. Borden asked, “Do schools today realize what is happening already (with computer games and other advancing technologies)?” She raised this question in response to a post by Bill Ferriter. He thinks that some video games lead some students to … Continue reading
Europeana Online Library Launched
The EU recently launched its Europeana digital library, an online digest of Europe’s cultural heritage. Europeana complements other online programs offered by individual European countries. The Internet and digitalisation techniques “enable a Czech student to browse the British library without … Continue reading
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Use Mouth and Throat Muscles and Receptors Memory for Speech
Researchers David Ostry and Sazzad Nasir at McGill University in Montreal on Sunday said intelligible speech is learnt in part through nerve signals from the vocal tract, a discovery that could open up an ambitious avenue of therapy for the … Continue reading
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QuickStart Learning with and without Tablet PCs
QuickStart Learning (QSL) refers to activities that provide a person with prompt changes in behavior. Some have called this eons old practice learning-by-doing. It is a generic category of immediate, efficient behavior change activities. QSL is to learning what instant … Continue reading