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AI_Era_Education

AI Era Education  The Subjects Schools Don't Teach… But what the Future Demands in this AI era: Students should Learn to understand about themselves, society, nature, intelligence, and the future. Imagine graduating with perfect examination scores, but without understanding how your brain works, how artificial intelligence makes decisions, how money grows, why people disagree, how your genes respond to the environment, or how the natural world sustains life. Students may know mathematics, science, history, and languages (can use AI tools to get the information), but the main question is do the student know how to manage your emotions, recognize misinformation, overcome procrastination, understand financial risks, collaborate with intelligent machines, or make decisions that protect the planet? ...

School with only one Teacher

Valparai- A school has only one teacher. So some of the classes are taught by students even. Source - www.dinakaran.com Same time I read that some high level business man could spend millions for a Gift.

NEPAL: Street children sniff glue to beat hunger pangs

Thani oru manthithanuku unnavu illai endral intha Jagathinai allithiduvom - Great Mahakavi Bharathair words. However in some parts of world the following story still happens- http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/62b38d27423dd9147d1ebe223e53e2af.htm Source: IRIN Bhim Pariyar, who grew up on the streets of the capital, Kathmandu, huddled in a corner with other boys like him, all trying to warm themselves around the fire they had made by burning plastic, paper and tyres. "It's time for fun now," Pariyar told his friends as he took out the packet of dendrite . "You know, this helps us to get rid of our hunger," explained his friend, 14-year-old Rajen Subba, who fled his home in Jhapa district in southeast Nepal due to grinding poverty and started to work as a rag picker. But he cannot afford regular food or clothing to keep warm, and has been living on the streets for the past six years. "I wish I was home even if it means living without food because I...