OpenEvo

@MPI_EVA_Leipzig based project. Educational innovation research for understanding the #human condition. #OpenEvo #EvoKids #eMu #GlobalESD

[Cultural Evolution - Transformation Fund @CultEvolFunding]

The @globalcurri project invites to an online seminar on globalization’s ethical implications on curricula on Tuesday, September 12, 2023, at 10 am (GMT). Hear what they've found re pedagogy in China and in India.
To join, please contact Tommi Lehtonen.

[ScienceJournal4Kids @SJforKids]

What do you think a Neanderthal ate for dinner? Scientists at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig were curious about this, so they studied ancient teeth to learn more! Read about what they found in our new adapted article: https://t.co/zcyYqRmB6N @Klervia_Jaouen

[Many Minds podcast @ManyMindsPod]

Evolution is not prospective—it can't foresee future benefits. So why have species—over and over—undergone major changes to how they process information? Why make those leaps?

Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ Andrew Barron!
https://t.co/KKubvIgnc2

[Michael Muthukrishna @mmuthukrishna]

The number line as a metaphor helped make zero more concrete and easily transmissible even to children. Number lines work by mapping numbers not to objects but to movement and position, but they also revealed the negative numbers, which are not otherwise intuitive! 8/

[Michael Muthukrishna @mmuthukrishna]

Your head is filled with entire analogies, metaphors, epistemologies, and tools that you once learned and now effortlessly use for thinking. It's how you cook, how you count, and why you think invisible germs are a good explanation for disease. But invisible spirits are not. 2/

[Michael Muthukrishna @mmuthukrishna]

🚨New paper on "What makes us smart?" w/ @johenrich

Unpacked in my soon-to-be-released book, "A Theory of Everyone"

Take home: Studying hardware won't help you understand the capabilities of pivot tables in Excel nor Code Interpreter in ChatGPT.

https://t.co/PF4xleyy91 1/

[Dr. Duncan Gillard (he/him) @Duncanjee]

Now available for preorder, our new book The Science of Children’s Wellbeing! On shelves Nov this year. Sooooo excited!! ⁦@nichooper7⁩ ⁦@CorinnaGrindle⁩ Freddy Jackson-Brown & Russ Hancock https://t.co/hxACLTJXHi #twitterEPs

[Christopher Krupenye @ChrisKrupenye]

Major funding opportunity for African PIs, based in sub-Saharan Africa, who received their PhDs within the last 10 years!

[OpenEvo @OpenEvoEd]

Very happy to announce our latest publication!
We share a design study of a pre-service teacher education module for teaching evolution across the curriculum in primary school contexts! Connect with us if you want to run the module at your university.
https://t.co/UZxebzux99

[Michael C. Frank @mcxfrank]

Can large language models be used as scientific models for studying human cognition? Here's my argument they can, with Theory of Mind as a case study: https://t.co/zqHVs0Xt8x

The key point: for LLMs to be good models, they must be openly accessible to researchers.

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Do growth mindset interventions impact students’ academic achievement?

A meta-analysis (63 studies, N=97,672), found major flaws in study design, analysis & reporting

The overall effect (d=.05) was nonsignificant after correcting for publication bias! https://t.co/sldnzRZTrQ

[Templeton World Charity Foundation @TempletonWorld]

This month we’re going to be exploring one of our priority areas - #DiverseIntelligences!

But what do we mean by this? Check out our thread below as we dive into this topic👇

[sheina lew-levy @sheinalew]

🚨📜 Our new paper is out! @jadasenka, @DudaRomain, Ghislain Loubelo, Jerome Lewis & I examine the harms and benefits of a school system designed for BaYaka children.

https://t.co/If0lWln8EC (English)

https://t.co/QCfes5KbwR (French)

https://t.co/4fBYdJIn5g (by @DudaRomain)

[OpenEvo @OpenEvoEd]

@ChrisKrupenye Our teaching materials collections are geared for secondary school students, and pre-service teacher undergrads, but have also been used by other undergrads in related areas:
https://t.co/S5YiwGZkYa
Happy to connect further if we can help point you to something more specific :)

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Fascinating: Risk-taking in chimpanzees mirrors risk-taking in humans: It’s a stable individual trait; it’s more common in males than females; and it peaks in early adulthood. https://t.co/2E41WlC2LR

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The Homework Apocalypse is coming this Fall.

AI completely changes how students will relate to homework like essays, problem sets & readings. And it isn’t just because of cheating (though that happens too). Some examples, and thoughts about what to do: https://t.co/xIHmyMCK3U

[Rebecca Sear @RebeccaSear]

“Peer learning is persistent across societies despite cultural beliefs that favor adult–child transmission in some settings. Comparative research hints that children's greater motivation to learn from each other may set humans apart from other primates” https://t.co/V3SYEkjBs0

[Jan Engelmann @JanEngelmann5]

More evidence that chimpanzees reason about different possibilities!

Using a new paradigm, we found that chimpanzees prepare for alternative possible outcomes. Paper out @royalsociety https://t.co/RoiZoVLlHk

Here is Okech protecting two possible targets from a competitor
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[Azim Shariff @azimshariff]

Fears of plagiarism have justifiably exploded since ChatGPT dropped last November. It's not just that ChatGPT & other generative AI are super accessible & capable, but our new preprint shows that it's also that copying from them just feels less wrong. https://t.co/iYnjwxG4Fe 🧵

[Michael Muthukrishna @mmuthukrishna]

🎉 Book Cover Reveal! 🎉

I am so excited that I can officially unveil the book covers for my new book “A Theory of Everyone”. 📚

I'll be talking a lot more about the book between now and September. All retweets, likes, and other help getting the book out to your networks would mean a lot to me!

Press release: https://t.co/tbvUI5aJgv
Pre-order link: https://t.co/NK1ExBFcwn

#BookRecommendations #bookcover #TheoryOfEveryone