Listen to the story {Play} Howard Gardner published 1983 the book Frames of Mind – The theory of multiple intelligences, where he identifies nine different intelligence types for learning for all senses. The book had a groundbreaking effect on the vision of pedagogy. It generally became one of the driving …
Listen to the story {Play} Here follow three research reports from the field of cognitive science and neuroscience of how culture and language affect skills. Thoughts without language? Research from CEA-Inserm-Université Paris Sud-Collège de France shows that there is a network of brain regions involved in advanced mathematics and also …
Listen to the story {Play} Text or Video? Happy or Sad story? New research gives extraordinary results on how to optimize communication. Many will have the intuitive response that a video clip in general would do much more to persuade people than a text. But new research from MIT shows …
On August 19, the first innovation district of Norway was launched called Oslo Science City by Prime Minister Erna Solberg. Where the vision is that the area should be a melting pot for innovation, competence, research, and venture capital. The Prime Minister said the following at the opening: “I say …
In Harvard Business Review, Katherine Graham-Leviss, the founder and president of XBInsight, present the result and analysis of the competency data on nearly 5000 business leaders that the company has collected. The outcome shows that innovative management has five skills in common: Manage risk Demonstrate curiosity Lead courageously Seize opportunities …
Haru is a big-eyed robot developed by Honda Research Institute that can take the concept of social robotics to the next level. Where the design is aiming to create an emotional and expressive companion for long term human-robot relationships with similarities of human-pet relations. Haru is designed both for telepresence …
“We want to build a self-evident and everyday contact between science and citizens why we encourage with the current promotion of research institutions and researchers to establish lasting models of collaboration – because only a continuous cooperation with the citizens for a longer period creates optimum conditions for mutual learning …
The Norwegian government boosting its efforts to transform and adapt the educational system to the digital society’s prerequisites. As one of the frontrunners in this development, besides e.g. Denmark and Finland, the government is now investing more in ICT-research for the digital transformation of the working life. Both when comes …
A research study based on University of Michigan survey project “Monitoring the Future” that has run since 1975 shows that only 16% of US teenagers read books outside school education, while in the 1970s the number was 60%. TV and cinema show a similar decrease in attention from teenagers. At …
Previous research has shown that adults by observing how much effort is required to obtain a goal. This has a direct impact on the motivation to go forward towards the goal. Basically, this is a calculation of value and effort in accordance with the economic theory of rational choice. A …
