Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem
I've been looking for another way of presenting evidence for instructional design that is more efficient than simple lectures. The data collected by Benjamin Bloom and published in 1984 seems useful and I've redrawn the graph so it looks more modern than the line drawings of the original. Learning...
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Mediterranean diet is still good for you but only if you’re rich: A landmark study that touted the benefits of the Mediterranean
Mediterranean diet is still good for you but only if you’re rich: A landmark study that touted the benefits of the Mediterranean diet has been retracted, but eating more fresh fish and veg is still good for you, if you can afford it
Source: newscientist.com
Alphabet's DeepMind Makes a Key Advance in Computer Vision: Alphabet's DeepMind neural networks can grasp a three-dimensional
Alphabet's DeepMind Makes a Key Advance in Computer Vision: Alphabet's DeepMind neural networks can grasp a three-dimensional scene from just a handful of two-dimensional snapshots
Source: ieee.org
WiFi Radio Signals Let MIT Researchers Track Movements of People |: Patients that wander away from their beds are a constant
WiFi Radio Signals Let MIT Researchers Track Movements of People |: Patients that wander away from their beds are a constant headache for nurses, while those that stay bedridden for too long can create problems of their own. New technology from MIT may soon allow hospital staff to see in real time the...
Source: medgadget.com
Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980: The spending began soaring beyond that of other
Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980: The spending began soaring beyond that of other advanced nations, but without the same benefits in life expectancy.
Source: nytimes.com
Faking Peer-Review: A major cancer journal retracted 107 papers in 2017 for faking peer-review, bringing the total for that
Faking Peer-Review: A major cancer journal retracted 107 papers in 2017 for faking peer-review, bringing the total for that publisher to 450. How did this happen, and how do we prevent it in the future?
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org
Cognii Virtual Learning Assistant designed and optimized for educational conversation. "Virtual assistants and chat bots
Cognii Virtual Learning Assistant designed and optimized for educational conversation. "Virtual assistants and chat bots such as Siri, Alexa, Cortana and Google Assistant are an increasingly familiar products, simulating human to human interaction with the use of Artificial Intelligence. But these are...
Source: cognii.com
Models of online & flexible learning - The Ed Techie An outline of the work done to develop conceptual models and current
Models of online & flexible learning - The Ed Techie An outline of the work done to develop conceptual models and current practice of how higher education institutions provide content, its delivery, and how the learner's work is recognised across the dimensions of openness and digitalisation - a...
Source: edtechie.net
Improving Language Understanding with Unsupervised Learning: We've obtained state-of-the-art results on a suite of diverse
Improving Language Understanding with Unsupervised Learning: We've obtained state-of-the-art results on a suite of diverse language tasks with a scalable, task-agnostic system, which we're also releasing. Our approach is a combination of two existing ideas: transformers and unsupervised pre-training....
Source: openai.com
Management Reasoning: Beyond the Diagnosis: This Viewpoint discusses management reasoning, ways in which it differs from
Management Reasoning: Beyond the Diagnosis: This Viewpoint discusses management reasoning, ways in which it differs from diagnostic reasoning, and areas that require further research. David A. Cook. Jonathan Sherbino. Steven J. Durning. JAMA.
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Wristband with Sensors to Improve Lives of Dementia Patients. "At the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration
Wristband with Sensors to Improve Lives of Dementia Patients. "At the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration in Berlin, Germany researchers are working on a sensor and software package that would help people developing dementia to slow down the disease progression [by this I presume...
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Frozen Pluto has wind-blown dunes made of methane sand. The same complex forces that make the patterns in our world that
Frozen Pluto has wind-blown dunes made of methane sand. The same complex forces that make the patterns in our world that we so admire also work in alien worlds but, as in Pluto, on substances that would be truly exotic here on earth.
Source: arstechnica.com
Cloud-based quantum computer takes on deuteron and wins: Optimized algorithms plus cloud-based quantum computers actually
Cloud-based quantum computer takes on deuteron and wins: Optimized algorithms plus cloud-based quantum computers actually work. Classical computers can solve these problems but this shows that quabtum computers can be programmed to do them as well ... but the progress is slow.
Source: arstechnica.com
Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - Slashdot: An anonymous reader shares an excerpt
Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - Slashdot: An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report via The Guardian, written by Neil Lawrence, the founding editor of the freely available journal Proceedings of Machine Learning Research: Machine learning has demonstrated...
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The scariest chart in Mary Meeker’s slide deck for newspapers has gotten even a teeny bit scarier: Since 2011, the share
The scariest chart in Mary Meeker’s slide deck for newspapers has gotten even a teeny bit scarier: Since 2011, the share of Americans' media consumption that happens in print has dropped about 40 percent. But the share of American ad dollars that go to print has dropped more than 60 percent. Print...
Source: niemanlab.org
Design Matters: The Snellen Eye Chart - The Scholarly Kitchen: Interesting background on the functional design that went
Design Matters: The Snellen Eye Chart - The Scholarly Kitchen: Interesting background on the functional design that went into the letters on the eye chart used to test visual acuity.
Source: sspnet.org
Simulation based education and expansive learning in health professional education: A discussion: The aim of this paper
Simulation based education and expansive learning in health professional education: A discussion: The aim of this paper is to discuss the application of Simulation Based Education (SBE) in nursing and wider health professional education. Simulated Learning (SL) is discussed in relation to its history,...
Source: journals.sfu.ca
Zika rumors got three times more shares than real Zika stories. What can health educators do?
Zika rumors got three times more shares than real Zika stories. What can health educators do?
Source: niemanlab.org
Politics is way worse because we use an atrocious 18th century voting system. Aaron Hamlin has a viable plan to fix it.
Politics is way worse because we use an atrocious 18th century voting system. Aaron Hamlin has a viable plan to fix it.
"Say there’s an independent or a third party candidate that you really like, but you’re looking at them and you think: ‘God, this person is never going to win, what I should...
Source: 80000hours.org
The Greatest Failure in What used to be Called Medicine | Dr. David Healy
The Greatest Failure in What used to be Called Medicine | Dr. David Healy
Source: davidhealy.org
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