Learning in sentence

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So what big history can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power with collective learning.

You probably heard some of them: the man who surfed the wave, the teenage girl who recognized the danger because she had just been learning about tsunamis at school.

The programmers said it could assist students in their learning.

This whole adventure has been a learning experience.

I wanted to have them be immersed and learn the feeling of learning through their bodies.

We know that's an authentic assessment of learning.

And so when I started traveling and going to these museums, I started learning a lot.

And this cell is one of the thousands of kinds of cell that we're learning about.

Because if you could find those, those would be some of the signals that could drive learning; the brain will do more of what got that reward.

We've shown that a brief activation of these is enough to drive learning.

And so we spent time traveling with them and learning about all the different elements, and finding that there were plenty of inefficiencies that weren't being capitalized on.

We're now learning to identify the cancer stem cells and identify those as targets and go for the long-term cure.

It goes into education where we have an antiquated education system that has little changed for 100 years, that values rote learning, memorization and standardization, and devalues self-expression, self-exploration, questioning, creativity and play.

But when they're playing, they're learning the social order and dynamics of things.

The global perspective is that up to 30 percent of children in school have learning weaknesses that are not self-correcting, but with appropriate treatment, they can be screened for and detected and corrected and avoid their academic failure.

But that person could be identified as having a learning disability.

DeSean, a brilliant first-grader I taught in the Bronx, he helped me understand how identity shapes learning.

Educator and philosopher Paulo Freire believed that teaching and learning should be two-way.

These women are learning about first aid and their rights according to the constitution.

And I got some sort of satisfaction from learning that both Basit and Amjad had had their computers infected dozens of times by completely unrelated other viruses over these years.

So, I was learning a lot, but it's not all fun and boogers, is it?

Now the reason the chimpanzees don't do that is that they lack what psychologists and anthropologists call social learning.

It's not even clear that our very close genetic relatives, the Neanderthals, had social learning.

Now to many commentators, cumulative cultural adaptation, or social learning, is job done, end of story.

But in fact, it turns out that some time around 200,000 years ago, when our species first arose and acquired social learning, that this was really the beginning of our story, not the end of our story.

Because our acquisition of social learning would create a social and evolutionary dilemma, the resolution of which, it's fair to say, would determine not only the future course of our psychology, but the future course of the entire world.

And the reason that dilemma arose is, it turns out, that social learning is visual theft.

Social learning really is visual theft.

Now whereas other species are confined to places that their genes adapt them to, with social learning and language, we could transform the environment to suit our needs.

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