Pedagogical Hope

Hope against Hope

In the penultimate chapter of the Bible, in the opening statement of the very last speech God makes in the whole of the Christian Scriptures, God says: "Behold I am making all things new" (Rev 21:5). The prophet sees the old heavens and the old earth the universe as it now is passing away, and new heavens and a new earth, God's new creation of all things, coming into being. It is not that God r...

Pedagogical Systems, Pedagogical Processes, and Pedagogical Technologies within Modern Pedagogical Knowledge

According to authors’ idea this paper presents a new general approach to the theoretic pedagogics and the pedagogical practice. As the substance authors use following terms: pedagogical system, pedagogical process, pedagogical technology. Pedagogical system describes the main bounds and relations, structure and organisation of an object. Pedagogical process describes, what takes place in the st...

"Hope, Danger's Comforter": Thucydides, Hope, Politics

Pedagogical Soap

Interactive Pedagogical Dramas (IPD) are compelling interactive stories that have didactic purpose. Autonomous agents realize the characters in these dramas. Their roles may be to portray humans facing overwhelming, emotionally-charged difficulties. This challenges the agents to interact with a depth and subtlety that is consistent with human behavior in difficult, stressful situations. To addr...

Pedagogical Learning

A common assumption in machine learning is that training data are i.i.d. samples from some distribution. Processes that generate i.i.d. samples are, in a sense, uninformative—they produce data without regard to how good this data is for learning. By contrast, cognitive science research has shown that when people generate training data for others (i.e., teaching), they deliberately select exampl...