tag > Education
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The Kiko journey has been fascinating. Some scream, "LLMs for kids' education? Horrible!" Others believe in AI for learning but insist on overcomplicated, gamified UIs to claim a "moat" and "educational value." They all forget—LLMs are improving at breakneck speed and can replicate their entire game UX in minutes. True personalized, real-time learning is coming. And no one is truly ready.
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Introducing KIKO – the AI Tutor that made my daughter say "I love learning!". Through natural conversations & interactive AI tools, it personalizes education & turns learning into an adventure—sparking creativity & critical thinking. Read more here....
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Kids in forest schools follow the regular curriculum, but their classroom is the forest—where they gain invaluable lessons from nature. Despite their many (often overlooked) benefits, forest schools are rare & mostly private. Why do we keep confining young minds to cubicle jails? 🌳
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The Real ADHD Issue Lies with Schooling, Not with Students - Parents should consider a change of environment, not an Rx.
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Why is mathematics education failing some of the world’s most talented children? (Nature)
TL;DR: A recent study highlights how children in India, especially those from lower-income families, demonstrate remarkable mental arithmetic skills while working in markets but perform poorly on formal written tests. This suggests that current maths education needs to evolve, focusing on reasoning and practical application rather than just rote methods and answers. While innovative approaches are necessary to teach mathematical reasoning alongside mental arithmetic, challenges include a shortage of trained teachers and assessment systems that prioritize method over understanding. Improving teaching methods and addressing these gaps could help talented children reach their full potential, possibly contributing to future education and research.
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On-demand Interactive Education
I remember struggling to grasp complex numbers as a teen. My teacher, always short on time and impatient, couldn’t help. Now? Just ask an LLM, ‘Create an interactive tool to teach me complex numbers,’ chat for a few minutes, and boom—concept mastered. Total game-changer.
And of course this works for any topic, no matter how simple or complex.
Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have three dimensions. ... The mathematical quaternion partakes of both these elements; in technical language it may be said to be "time plus space", or "space plus time": And in this sense it has, or at least involves a reference to, four dimensions. ... And how the One of Time, of Space the Three, Might in the Chain of Symbols girdled be. — William Rowan Hamilton (c. 1853)
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You can achieve true greatness if you focus fully on one thing... ohh..
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BUD-E 1.0 - Open Source browser-based Voice Assistants, that work out-of-the-box with self-hosted and third party APIs and is saving the user data locally in the browser.
- 💬 Real-time responses to user queries
- 🧠 Emotionally intelligent interactions
- 🔄 Continuous conversation context
- 👥 Multi-speaker and multi-language support
- 🖥️ Local operation on consumer-grade hardware
- 🔒 Privacy-focused design
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As artificial intelligence advances at breakneck speed, we must prioritize the evolution of human intelligence. Education—particularly for children—is more critical than ever, yet it remains anchored in outdated models from the last century.
Discussing 'human education reform' with LLMs is an enlightening exercise. Asking for a 'comprehensive homeschooling course' brings up some thought-provoking ideas about the future.
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For parents who want to help their kids with a hard school concept but don't want them to use AI directly, Show the LLM the problem your kid is stuck on and prompt:
"how can I, as a parent, explain to my kid, grade N, how to solve this" and then use the advice to help tutor them
In tutoring, you don't want to give answers, you want to challenge someone to learn and guide them. That is why just providing AI access can be a negative - students think they are learning when they are getting answers. Better prompting likely helps with this.
