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“By Age 7, Most Children Quickly Spot Social Biases”

“Across all participants, more than 75 percent identified that Ann was biased against the group she treated negatively. However, the ability to infer bias based on Ann’s behavior varied with age, with the youngest participants doing so least often: Adults: 100 percent detected bias and mentioned Ann’s bias in 79 percent of scenarios. Ages 7 […]

The Navy Is Teaching Celestial Navigation Again (Because Hacking)

In the 1990’s increasing reliance on navigation technologies including GPS caused the Navy to drop celestial navigation from its officer training curriculum. Now, increasing awareness of the vulnerability of these systems to hacking and other types of disruption has prompted it to reintroduce the requirement.”

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Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.

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– Peter Nilsson

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