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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. I was able to pull this off because my course took place in the Digital Learning Commons “ D-Space ” – a state of the art flexible classroom space. The flexible classroom is a large open space. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Data and the Human Touch

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

When Kevin was in kindergarten he had an organic brain injury, which forced him to have to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom. Sophia and her family were left confused and concerned about her future in the classroom.

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What We Can Learn from Finnish NGOS About Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms. In Finland, classroom time incorporates “brain breaks” after 50 minutes when one’s natural focus and energy begins to wane. Taking brain breaks is an important work skill as well.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Kevin Leong was in kindergarten when he experienced an organic brain injury that forced him to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom. For several years, he struggled in school because his vision was blurry and reading normal size print was grueling.

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The AI Takeover in Classrooms Is Worse Than You Think

Medium Technology Section

And as a teacher, I’m scared for the future of the human brain Continue reading on Ai-Ai-OH

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The surprising reason we have a 40-hour work week (and why we should rethink it)

The Next Web

We learned that eight hours of work a day is what we’re supposed to do almost as soon as we step foot into a classroom. Your body keeps track of time in a section in your brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (or SCN). When you get a job, usually part or all of your pay is based on hours worked. Night owls vs. early birds.

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Robotic deep RL at scale: Sorting waste and recyclables with a fleet of robots

Google Research AI blog

Posted by Sergey Levine, Research Scientist, and Alexander Herzog, Staff Research Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Reinforcement learning (RL) can enable robots to learn complex behaviors through trial-and-error interaction, getting better and better over time. From here, it’s off to the classroom. trials from deployment.