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Exploration vs. Exploitation: Adults Are Learning (Once Again) From Children
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Length:
13 minutes
Released:
Apr 6, 2023
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Podcast episode
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How do you balance innovation and implementation, possibility and practicality? How do you resolve the tension between the lure of the crazy new thing and the safe haven of the tried and true? In her latest presidential column for the APS Observer, APS President Alison Gopnik, who studies learning and development at the University of California, Berkeley, writes about what makes children bad at acting effectively but good at learning, exploration, and discovery and how adults—including cognitive scientists and computer scientists conducting exciting new research—may learn from them. She reads her column in this episode.
Released:
Apr 6, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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