Antonio Lucero

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How to best engender critical thinking in K-12 education?

From my observations, there appear to be three principal avenues to engender critical thinking in education K-12: debate; mathematics, and science. For some students, all three avenues are...

05 February 2021 9,810 7 View

Is the internet the new frontier without rules to safeguard the public?

There are many abuses by bad actors on the internet. They may be: hackers, fake news purveyors, exploiters of Big Data, cyber warriors, and designers of software intended to addict its users. The...

01 March 2019 3,128 3 View

How robust are your findings?

In statistical pattern recognition, where we can deal, in principle, with high dimensional feature spaces, we have encountered "The Curse of Dimensionality." Basically, this describes the...

26 February 2017 1,558 2 View

What are some of the implications of changing the mindset of teachers to their mission being to induce physical changes in their students brains?

When people learn, new neural connections and new neurons are produced.

22 May 2014 4,877 10 View

Do enormous advancements in the states of science and technology depend on war or the threat of war?

In the USA (and in the UK) enormous advancements in science and technology took place in physics, applied mathematics, computer science, electronics, radar, infrared, prosthetics and organ...

29 September 2013 3,864 33 View

I have a series of conjectures regarding how the activities of the mind can physically change the brain (from a short while to a long period). A brief...

Three time scales in which Voluntary Mental Activity -> Changes in Brain for optimizing cognitive tasks. 1. Short period: 10-15 minutes, Priming (e.g., before math class begins, preliminary...

03 January 2012 9,315 7 View

What happens to the brain, functionally and/or chemically when a person is in a mystical state? By mystical state, I mean a mental state in which the...

Most Western science research does not address this question, chiefly because mysticism is not included within the common realm of thought in the West. Perhaps there is someone within the...

07 December 2011 8,513 13 View

Needed revolution in education K-12 forced by the nova coronavirus.

Our American educational system is a disaster for most students. Many graduate or drop out of school, feeling little sense of self-realization. This is because traditional schooling typically...

01 January 1970 6,554 15 View

We should educate legislators how to write data-driven laws and regulations that can be applied in a fairer, more adaptive way.

Big Data, targeted advertising, medical diagnosis systems, etc. use methods of automatically generating decision trees by recursively searching for criteria that can be used to incrementally...

01 January 1970 1,882 2 View

Are teachers and educators adverse to studying the neuroscience of learning?

Teachers and educators often reference old works by philosophers, psychologists, and social scientists to support their theories and practices in education. But, almost never do I see references...

01 January 1970 5,158 28 View