An educational relationship in transfer: speech as educational act

Automatic Discovery of Speech Act Categories in Educational Games

In this paper we address the important task of automated discovery of speech act categories in dialogue-based, multi-party educational games. Speech acts are important in dialogue-based educational systems because they help infer the student speaker’s intentions (the task of speech act classification) which in turn is crucial to providing adequate feedback and scaffolding. A key step in the spe...

“ Mathematics as an Educational Task ”

The Background In these days of change and " progress " in education, we are placed in the position of needing the wisdom of Solomon to decide which of a wide variety of views is appropriate, if indeed any of them are. The wave of " new mathematics " began to sweep the country in the 60's and now in the 70's we are looking back at the improvements and the debris. On the one hand we have advocat...

Robotics as an Educational Tool

This paper explores a new educational application of Piaget’s theories of cognitive development i.e. the use, as a teaching tool, of physical robots conceived as artificial organisms. By using simple assembly kits, students at all levels are able to project and construct real robots that simulate the behaviors of animals. The process of constructing real robots helps students to understand conc...

PSEN as an Educational Tool in Norway

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