News tagged with dynamic learning

Researchers develop comprehensive, accessible vision testing device

Eighty-five percent of children's learning is related to vision. Yet in the U.S., 80 percent of children have never had an eye exam or any vision screening before kindergarten, statistics say. When they do, the vision screenings ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How past experiences inform future choices

Researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory report for the first time how animals' knowledge obtained through past experiences can subconsciously influence their behavior in new situations.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Experiential learning teaches change and adaptation

Economics, environmental impacts, social dynamics, and production levels are all major factors that influence the overall success of an agroecosystem. Positive or negative, these factors enact change on the system, forcing ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Online educational empowerment

Online learning communities flourish best if individual learners have self-governance. That is the conclusion of a US study published in the International Journal of Web Based Communities.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Study suggests girls can 'rewire' brains to ward off depression

(Medical Xpress) -- What if you could teach your brain to respond differently to things that make you feel sad, down or stressed out? What if doing that helped ward off depression?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Zuckerberg's focus drives Facebook's ascent

When Mark Zuckerberg showed up to rent Judy Fusco's Los Altos, Calif., house in the fall of 2004, soon after he'd arrived in Silicon Valley, the landlord was immediately struck by his confidence.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 2

New target for Alzheimer's drugs

(Medical Xpress) -- Biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside have identified a new link between a protein called beta-arrestin and short-term memory that could open new doors for the ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists delve into the brain roots of hunger and eating

Synaptic plasticity – the ability of the synaptic connections between the brain's neurons to change and modify over time -- has been shown to be a key to memory formation and the acquisition of new learning behaviors. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Modeling microbes to manage carbon dioxide

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the past decade, microbiologists began realizing that communities of microbes process energy and materials, which affects their environments. To understand how microbial communities function ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New insights into how to correct false knowledge

The abundance of false information available on the Internet, in movies and on TV has created a big challenge for educators.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Innovation promises expanded roles for microsensors

Researchers have learned how to improve the performance of sensors that use tiny vibrating microcantilevers to detect chemical and biological agents for applications from national security to food processing.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Studying butterfly flight to help build bug-size flying robots

To improve the next generation of insect-size flying machines, Johns Hopkins engineers have been aiming high-speed video cameras at some of the prettiest bugs on the planet. By figuring out how butterflies ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NASA's GCPEX mission: What we don't know about snow

Predicting the future is always a tricky business -- just watch a TV weather report. Weather forecasts have come a long way, but almost every season there's a snowstorm that seems to come out of nowhere, or ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NBC and NSF launch 'Science of NHL Hockey'

NBC News' educational arm, NBC Learn, and the NBC Sports Group recently teamed up with the National Hockey League (NHL) and National Science Foundation (NSF) to release "Science of NHL Hockey"--an informative ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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