Technology can help educators train students' focus away from rote memorization toward deep conceptual learning by building on prior knowledge and making connections between concepts. An example of ...

When students use artificial intelligence to learn new subjects, their underlying motivations dictate whether they actually retain information or just acquire superficial facts. A recent experiment ...

Moreover, Hebbian learning 4, the cornerstone of connectionist modelling, relies on input occurring at the same time. Roads and Love’s reliance on the unique structural profiles of concepts now ...

Whether or not they are aware of it, your students will arrive in the classroom with some level of prior knowledge that will affect their present learning experience in your course. When prior ...

Concept-Cognitive Learning (CCL) is an effective concept learning approach that simulates human cognitive processes to facilitate knowledge discovery. However, existing CCL methods face two ...

Exploring concepts such as observation and measurement in the fresh air can give students a new and playful perspective on ...

Humans have waged some pointless battles for ages and, often, the trigger comes from a lack of adequate understanding of the matter and flawed judgement of the motives of the supposed adversary. One ...

The conceptual learning model is a fresh approach that focuses on understanding concepts rather than just organising and distributing data. It is centred on ‘why’ and ‘how’; a much-needed change in ...

In my last post, I described an approach to talent development that’s been proven not to work: fire-hose training where an expert swoops in, tries to stuff people’s minds with knowledge for a day or ...