All in For Teachers
Alison Stone teaches Biology and Human Anatomy and Physiology at Central Bucks High School – West in Doylestown, PA. She is a National Board-Certified Teacher and the 2015 recipient of the Outstanding Educator Award from Stephenson University. Alison is a Distinguished …
ADHD is a chronic neurodevelopmental disorder that can disrupt students’ ability to maintain attention, regulate emotions, and inhibit impulses at school. …mindfulness interventions have been found to enhance attention, executive function, emotional regulation, and self-control.
How do people perform under pressure? As performance-related anxiety increases, what happens to performance? This was the focus of a recently published experiment. In this study, the researchers proposed that the difference between whether pressure is good or bad is how it is interpreted.
The first post in this series gave an overview of Artificial Intelligence - a broad field that seeks to both better understand human cognition through computer models and to improve task-based computer models - and some of the different AI tools that have been developed. These different AI tools have different pros and cons that make them more or less suited to certain tasks. […] In this post I want to explore how generative AI, specifically chatbots, are used and how they affect our thinking and development of expertise.
Artificial Intelligence is many things. As a field of study, Artificial Intelligence seeks to both better understand human cognition through computer models and to improve task-based computer models (that is, where the goal is to improve performance on a task and not necessarily to model how a human would perform on that task). Artificial Intelligence is in many ways a sister-discipline to cognitive psychology which also seeks to better under human cognition.
Delivering engaging and effective presentations is important when it comes to teaching or when presenting work at conferences. As teachers, we may want to help our students to develop their presentation skills…
