True agentic AI is years away - here's why and how we get there

Today's AI agents are a primitive approximation of what agents are meant to be. True agentic AI requires serious advances in reinforcement learning and complex memory.
Education Week

Play-Based Learning Yields More Joy, Higher Scores at This Elementary School

That joyfulness can extend even to the more mundane lessons, like learning new vocabulary, which historically has involved ...
BMJ

Motor learning principles reported in stroke trials of upper limb task-oriented training: a scoping review

2 Centre for Comprehensive Stroke Rehabilitation and Research, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India Objective Upper limb task-oriented training (UL-TOT) is a complex intervention in ...
Frontiers

Investigating the effectiveness and typology of teachers’ interactional feedback in supporting digital game-based language learning

Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Education College, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia This mixed-method experimental study investigates the effectiveness and typology of ...
Scientific American

Learning Another Language May Slow Brain Aging, Huge New Study Finds

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...
The Conversation

What AI earbuds can’t replace: The value of learning another language

Thor Sawin has received funding for teacher development projects through the State Department Fulbright Specialist and English Language Specialist program, as well as the US Air Force and LCC ...
Wall Street Journal

Large Language Models Get All the Hype, but Small Models Do the Real Work

There’s a paradox at the heart of modern AI: The kinds of sophisticated models that companies are using to get real work done and reduce head count aren’t the ones getting all the attention.
IEEE

Deep Learning Empowered Detection of Large Language Model Based Generative Content in Educational Tasks

Abstract: The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT in education has intensified the need to differentiate AI-generated from human-authored student work. This study proposes ...
Education Week

Play-Based Learning in Kindergarten Is Making a Comeback. Here’s What It Means

Parents visiting their children’s kindergarten class for the first time may think they’ve arrived at the wrong room, especially if they expect it to resemble the kindergarten they attended as ...
soapcentral

Is Task based on a true story? Here's what you need to know about the HBO crime drama

HBO's latest crime drama series Task, starring Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey, premiered on September 7, 2025. The series delves into the lives of two men, one a former priest turned FBI agent, Tom ...
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Inquiry-based Learning Simply Explained

Inquiry-based learning has been gaining more attention in classrooms across the world. Teachers often ask, What does it look like in practice? How does it differ from more traditional approaches? At ...
C&EN

Optimizing Multi-Task Learning with Evolutionary Relatedness Metrics for Enhanced QSAR-Based Natural Product Activity Prediction

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. A few public databases provide biological activity data for ...