Author: Matthew Lynch
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How to Be a Better Web Searcher: Secrets from Google Scientists
Asking Google to answer a question is something that happens 70,000 times per second or 4 million times every minute. It’s how we find the latest ... -
The Promising Future of the Game-Based Learning Market
The advent and success of game-based learning have done away with the educational stigma that enjoyment and education exist on separate planes, only intersecting in short ... -
How a Chatbot Can Help Your School or University
Most of us are familiar with Alexa and Siri and have employed them to help us out in some way or other. In fact, Gartner predicts ... -
Smart City Data Helps Solve Education Challenges
The advent of smart cities means big things not only for city administrations but also for the educational institutions which function within their parameters. Data collection ... -
Can Machine Learning Decode Depression in Students?
Depression and anxiety symptoms are common among university students in many regions of the world. According to the latest Center for Collegiate Mental Health report, anxiety ... -
5 Ways Technology Is Making Students Anxious
Psychological well-being as measured by self-esteem, life satisfaction, and happiness suddenly decreased amongst students after 2012. This decrease in psychological well-being and increase in anxiety levels ... -
Why Online Preschool Is a Terrible Idea
Why Online Preschool Is a Terrible Idea It used to be that parents sent their young children to kindergarten to prepare them for elementary school. Now ... -
Machine Learning to Predict Childhood PTSD
More than 20% of children in the United States will experience a traumatic event before they are 16 years old, but only some will go on ... -
Machine Learning Helps Science Tackle Alzheimer’s
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, an estimated 5.7 million Americans of all ages were living with Alzheimer’s dementia in 2018. One in ten people aged 65 ... -
How Schools Can Fight Cheating with Artificial Intelligence
Cheating is a serious problem in American high schools and universities. According to the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI), about 68 % of undergraduate students ...