What are Neural Networks?
Neural networks are a set of algorithms, modeled loosely on the human brain. They are designed to recognize patterns and interpret sensory data like images or sound.
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What are Cognitive Systems?
A category of technologies that use cognitive computing, natural language processing, and machine learning to enable people and machines to interact more naturally to extend and magnify human expertise and cognition. Cognitive systems can analyze structured and unstructured data from diverse information sources. At the same time, these systems are
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What is Cognitive Computing?
A field of computer science that is able to address complex situations that are characterized by ambiguity and uncertainty; in other words, it handles human kinds of problems. Cognitive computing does not imply computers that can think independently like humans. Rather the technology involves computers that can analyze vast amounts
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What are Educational Genomics?
A subfield of human genomics that attempts to isolate and identify the genetic factors that determine individual differences in achievement, motivation, behavior, and intelligence.
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What is the Internet of Things?
Is a system of integrated computing devices, digital and mechanical machines, objects, animals or people that are given unique identifiers (UIDs) and permission to transfer data over a network without needing human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.
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What is Peer Tutoring?
Is when a student who is proficient in a subject helps a struggling student. There are clear advantages to both parties in peer tutoring: The tutor gains a deeper level of understanding through expanding on prior knowledge. This happens through summarizing, paraphrasing, and visualizing the subject matter for the tutee.
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What is a Higher Education Desert?
Any area of the U.S. where college aspirant citizens must drive (one way) more than sixty minutes (some definitions use the parameter of 25 miles) to attend to a 4-year college or university.
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What is Deep Learning?
The pyramid of concepts that give computers and machines the ability to learn complex ideas by developing them from simpler ones.
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What is Deeper Learning?
Is a critical and higher order thinking model that is made up of the following 6 competencies: master core academic content, think critically and solve complex problems, communicate effectively, work collaboratively, learn how to learn, develop academic mindsets.
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Stage 5: The Expert Reader (typically from 16 years and older)
During the fifth phase of the reading development process, the learner is reading from a wide range of advanced materials, both expository and narrative, with multiple viewpoints. Learners are reading broadly across the disciplines, including the physical, biological and social sciences as well as the humanities, politics and current affairs.
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