Had a fun conversation with Jeff Hawkins of Numenta about the Thousand Brain theory and behavioral modification. #ai #behaviorchange #learning #brainscience It's a really good book, I highly recommend it. The theory explains a LOT.
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Showing posts with label humanist learning. Show all posts
Humanism - translated into 10 languages
The American Humanist Association Center for Education has translated the 10 Humanist Commitments into 10 different languages.
If you want to learn more about Humanism or to help educate people about Humanism - "The Center for Education offers our 10 Commitments individual memes and “wheel” art free to use and share. The file types on this page are all high-resolution JPGs suitable for digital and print. To access the high-resolution version, right-click the image to download."
https://americanhumanistcenterforeducation.org/?page_id=19369
The languages this resource is available in includes:
English | Spanish | French | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Japanese | Korean | Russian | Bulgarian | Urdu
What skill sets do children need for the future?
The 6C’s – Skill set for effective lifelong living and
learning.
I love it when best practices coincide with a humanist
approach to life. It turns out that early
childhood education specialists, Doctors Golinkoff & Hirsh-Pask, have narrowed
down the key list of skills children should learn so that they can learn how to
learn so that they can keep learning as they grow up. (See more at: http://dupagechildrens.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ELRAC_Brochure_11_11_2013_update.pdf)
Why is all this learning important? Because success in life
is largely a measure, not of what you know, but of how you use the information
you have. So the synthesis of information is important AND knowing how to acquire
new information if it turns out you are mistaken is also important. Because the only thing worse than being wrong
is continuing to be wrong because you don’t know how to correct your mistakes.
Anyway – the 6Cs – the skill set we need to focus on to help
our children learn.
- · Collaboration (building new knowledge and approaches with others);
- · Communication (persuasively arguing – and listening – to share ideas);
- · Content (the 3R’s and so much more);
- · Critical thinking (selecting and synthesizing the information needed to perform the task at hand);
- · Creative innovation (using content and critical thinking to envision new solutions to old problems);
- · and Confidence (the old saws about perspiration and perseverance have much to offer).
What is Learning?
What is learning and why should you bother to learn stuff?
Most Humanists I know are voracious learners. And by voracious I mean we are interested in everything and in learning all that we can learn. Given that there is a lot to learn it’s a never ending quest.
Not only are Humanists interested in learning, we are also interested in learning how we learn so that we can better learn. Is your head hurting yet?
The reason Humanists engage in all this learning is because by learning, we gain new knowledge. By learning we come to know things. By learning, we come to be able to do new things and acquire new skills. By learning, we come to understand better.
Humans are an interesting creature. We are capable of instinctual behavior, but we are also capable of learning new behaviors. And these new behaviors are really very helpful in the quest for survival and reproduction. In a word, learning is very sexy (in a survival of the fittest sort of way). People who know how to learn have a better chance of survival.
When you think of it, there is no downside to learning. True, it can be difficult at times, but that shouldn’t stop us. Because it turns out that the more you learn, the funner learning becomes.
Why are Humanists lifelong learners? Because Humanism is the applied study of what it means to be a good Human being. In some ways, Humanism is the best of what we've learned so far and what we continue to learn.
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