Articles Tagged with learning

The pot, the photograph and the on-line video

Following directions

Old cast iron and new social media.

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The rabbit in the Moon

Habits of seeing

What do you see when you look at the Moon?

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Knowing what you know

Your own limits

Are you really almost there, or just starting out?

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Learning for yourself

textbooks (gravitation, thermodynamics) and papers with equationsIn class and out of class

Our tutoring consultant remarks on different ways of learning.

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Cutting it short

How is a poster like a sonnet?

Our astronomer struggles to fit into a limited space.

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Learning and relearning

Holes in one’s memory

Not everything we learn sticks.  This can be discouraging.

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Just like it sounds

Reforming English spelling?

Learning how to spell in English is difficult.  Reforming the system would be harder.

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Sometimes the answer is no

When finding nothing is something

In science, coming up with the answer is often the easy part.

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A grand memory for forgetting

Learning in compartments

There is so much to take in that we divide up our task subject by subject, rarely allowing something we’ve learned in one class (or other environment) to leak over into another.  This is not, in general, a good thing.

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Machine learning

Trained by our machines

Our chief consultant realizes how effective our machines have been at training us to perform tasks efficiently and exactly.

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