Users Slam Duolingo for Sneaky Ads on iPhones—Can Apple Ban the App?

The notification in question appeared as a live activity banner on the user’s iPhone which said, “Claim your Super offer!” ...

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.
IEEE

A Hierarchical Vision-Language and Reinforcement Learning Framework for Robotic Task and Motion Planning in Collaborative Manipulation

Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) use an end-to-end learning architecture, which can realize the integration of visual perception, semantic understanding and motion control. However, when ...
Language Magazine

Recentering Classroom-Based Assessment

As fall arrives, students are returning to school, we hope, with a renewed enthusiasm for learning. As teachers prepare for the first day of school, they may have reviewed the class roster and ...
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 ...
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 ...
The New York Times

Antisemitism Task Force Severs Ties With the Heritage Foundation

The move comes as the venerable conservative think tank is roiled by turmoil caused by its leader’s defense of a Tucker Carlson interview with a white nationalist. By Kenneth P. Vogel Kenneth P. Vogel ...
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 ...
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 ...
Inc

How to Shift From Task-Based Work to Building a Scalable Business

Most business owners are drowning in tasks. They start each day with a full to-do list and end it with an even longer one. They handle payroll, put out fires, answer sales questions, approve marketing ...
IEEE

Enhancing Task-Incremental Learning via a Prompt-Based Hybrid Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)-Vision Transformer (ViT) Framework

Abstract: Artificial neural network (ANN) models are widely used in various fields such as image classification, multi-object detection, intent prediction, military applications, and natural language ...