When will we start judging bureaucrats on delivery?

The focus on a bureaucrat's performance tends to be on procedures and paperwork, not on innovation or results. This emphasis ...

Task based learning as a method

Sunday mornings at my home were a little different. When we reached middle school, my father started providing tuition in ...
Psychology Today

Educational Psychology Improves Use of AI for Learning

Students will use AI. The challenge is teaching them to use it in ways that strengthen learning. Educational psychology ...
thetechedvocate.org

What Is Competency-Based Education? How It Differs from Traditional Grading

Competency-based education is an instructional strategy that focuses on students demonstrating mastery of specific skills or knowledge areas before progressing. Unlike traditional models that often ...

In 1958, Frank Rosenblatt unveiled the Perceptron in New York, laying the groundwork for image recognition in modern AI

The use of artificial intelligence has radically transformed the way the computer understands reality. It has given rise to ...
TechCrunch

Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time

Anthropic is introducing a new service called Claude Tag, an “always-on Claude” that lives in Slack and acts as an AI teammate. The new feature — which allows users to tag @Claude to provide insights ...
Education Week

AI Changes Its Feedback on Students’ Writing When It Knows Their Race, Gender

Artificial intelligence-based writing coaches have gained popularity as a way to give teachers quick feedback on hundreds of student drafts, reducing one of their most time-intensive tasks. But ...

Microsoft’s open-source SkillOpt automatically upgrades AI agent skills without touching model weights

Microsoft's SkillOpt brings deep-learning discipline to AI agent skills, replacing manual prompt tweaking with mathematically validated text optimization.
The Straits Times

Can AI improve learning? New MOE fund aims to find faster answers

SINGAPORE – A new fund has been launched by the Ministry of Education (MOE) to support short-term studies in educational technology, including the use of artificial intelligence. The Rapid Research ...
The Straits Times

New disability task force to focus on easing anxiety over life transitions: Goh Pei Ming

SINGAPORE – Anxiety about transitions from school to work or community services, or between one job and another, is one of the top concerns for persons with disabilities (PWDs) and their caregivers.
IEEE

Adversarial Attack and Defence Strategies for Deep-Learning-Based IoT Device Classification Techniques

Abstract: Concurrent advancements in machine learning (ML) and Internet of Things have allowed several interesting interdisciplinary applications, such as classification tasks based on data generated ...
IEEE

Task-Sequencing Meta Learning for Intelligent Few-Shot Fault Diagnosis With Limited Data

Abstract: Recently, deep learning-based intelligent fault diagnosis methods have been developed rapidly, which rely on massive data to train the diagnosis model. However, it is usually difficult to ...