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Rough terrain? No problem for beaver-inspired autonomous robot

Researchers are using stigmergy, a biological phenomenon that has been used to explain everything from the behavior of termites and beavers to the popularity of Wikipedia, to build new problem-solving autonomous robots. While the project involves animals and robots, its main focus is math: specifically, developing new algorithms — the sets of rules that self-governing […]

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John Hattie is wrong

He is famous for a book, Visible Learning, which claims to review every area of research that relates to teaching and learning. He uses a method called “meta-meta-analysis,” averaging effect sizes from many meta-analyses. The book ranks factors from one to 138 in terms of their effect sizes on achievement measures. Läs mer [robertslavinsblog]

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Göteborgs universitet i historiskt samarbete kring praktiknära forskning i skolan

Nu har Göteborgs universitet och de kommunala skolhuvudmännen i Göteborgsregionen kommit överens hur arbetet i det så kallade ”ULF-avtalet” ska se ut. Genom överenskommelsen tas nu det första steget mot att bygga ett hållbart samarbete kring praktiknära forskning i skolan. Läs vidare [Göteborgs Universitet]

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