Category Archives: Education

Sony and Sony Global Education Develop a New System to Manage Students’ Learning Data, Built on IBM Blockchain

– New cloud-based platform to help track and manage student data to improve efficiencies in education system

TOKYO and ARMONK, NY – 09 Aug 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) Japan today announced that Sony Corporation and Sony Global Education, a subsidiary of Sony that works to provide global educational services, have developed a new blockchain-based student education records platform. (more…)

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UCLA math professor keeps company with Einstein, Darwin, da Vinci in National Geographic ‘Genius’ issue

Terence Tao emphasizes the importance of hard work, plus ‘intuition, literature, and a bit of luck’

What makes a genius?” National Geographic asks on the cover of its May 2017 issue. In the accompanying article, writer Claudia Kalb observes, “Throughout history rare individuals have stood out for their meteoric contributions to a field.” (more…)

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Students may forget relevant information in order to protect their own psyches

UCLA-led study suggests people often don’t recall memories that threaten the way they want to see themselves

What’s too painful to remember/ We simply choose to forget.”
– Barbra Streisand, “The Way We Were”

UCLA-led research has found that students in a college mathematics course experienced a phenomenon similar to repression, the psychological process in which people forget emotional or traumatic events to protect themselves. (more…)

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