eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Attend any education event today, and one phrase will echo in the halls: artificial intelligence. Teaching what’s timeless: Power skills and mental models The solution lies in embracing the timeless. This “meta-knowledge” is encapsulated by the set of understandings called Mental Models.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Habit 4: Seek opportunities for inclusive convening leveraging emotional intelligence Innovators are fueled by a diversity of ideas. We practice mental models grounded in a pragmatic view of change. To create the conditions for new ideas and to build new things, we are necessarily “expert generalists.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

You have a lot of great metaphors in the book, and you argue that a problem is that people aren’t using the right kind of mental model to properly evaluate information online. If there's one thing we want to teach students, it's how to better choose what to invest their attention and time in.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

The professor of computer science and cognitive science at Georgia Institute of Technology believes every student and researcher should have access to artificially intelligent assistants that not only help them study facts and figures, but also collaborate more closely with other humans. Ashok Goel has a vision for the future of education.

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