Author: Ondrej

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Social Emotional Learning

“Artificial intelligence will become more efficient than schools when it comes to teaching kids fact-based knowledge and skills in the near future ,” some experts say. I personally cannot find a reason for not believing them. Modern schools must become a place of learning social and emotional skills. No AI can do this. Is it possible? Is it utopia?

I attended a fundraising dinner a few weeks ago promoting SEL – Social Emotional Learning at schools. Money spent so well!

Just a few examples…

Good news, kids are still getting some reassuring touch from teachers at school.

Sorry about this longer one but I could not help it.

To wrap it up

Resources

http://www.sel4ca.org

http://bigeqcampaign.org

http://bigeqcampaign.org/the-video-evidence/

‘Thank you guys for a great dinner and company, and such an important work you are doing.’

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On Attention (#1)

The two videos I am going to share below, come from a conference on a scientific topic I could hardly understand. I, as a person with a very low residual vision, technically, should not be able to see much of her visuals either. It is her attention that makes her love for her topic palpable to me.

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Brain and Skin

From birth we humans are in fact skin more than we are anything else.
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In a certain sense, then, the newborn child’s skin is a type of brain, in the sense that it is the place where encounters with the world first freeze into the vague structurings of knowledge. And not coincidentally, the skin and the brain both originate from the same germ material, i.e., the embryo’s ectoderm layer.

Jesper Hoffmeyer, Biosemiotics, University of Scranton Press, 2008