“What we have thus far is an experiment, and we’d like to know: Is this information useful to the machine learning community? What important problems, datasets, and results are we missing?”
“I’ve tried to present most of an undergraduate physics course in quantum mechanics using just animations instead of equations. There will undoubtably be parts that don’t make sense, and there is a lot of detail that you can’t get without the maths. But hopefully this introduction will give more understanding of what quantum mechanics actually is and says than the hundreds of articles that mainly enumerate “weirdnesses” that quantum mechanics has. I think understanding the Schrödinger equation is much closer to understanding quantum mechanics than understanding that quantum mechanics entails quantum tunneling, things popping into existence, wave-particle duality, or the inevitable (and philosophically important) multiple universes interpretations.”
AR quite literally brings lessons and learning to life fostering collaboration, interaction, engagement and understanding of a given topic. And let’s face it if you say, ‘Now please get your tablet or smartphone out and scan page 5’ to a class of kids you’ve got their attention.
By connecting the physical world of textbooks, lessons plans, and presentations with digital devices you and your students can add a new type of visual aid, splash of colour and excitement to any subject.
Here are just a few ways ZapWorks
can be used by schools
VISUALISING PROBLEMS
IMPROVING SKILLS
MAXIMISING SPACE
IMPROVING COMPUTING
1 VISUALISING PROBLEMS
Bring handouts and presentations to life with video, photos, audio etc. and give students a new way to learn and visualize ideas.
2 IMPROVING SKILLS
Get kids to create their own AR experiences as an immersive and collaborative way to explore a given topic.
3 MAXIMIZING SPACE
Use zapcodes on posters, artwork, newsletters and school magazines to showcase more of the work created by pupils than the wall space or pages will allow!
4 IMPROVING COMPUTING
In computing classes as a fun and creative way for children to learn about designing, file sharing, and use of different media.
WHY ZAPCODES FOR EDUCATION?
INTERACTIVE LEARNING
As more and more schools have access to tablets and PCs ZapWorks offers an affordable, robust and easy to use system for teachers and students to explore new interactive learning techniques.
ZAP-ALYTICS
Zapcodes offer a simple way to update content over time and view analytics via our data dashboard.
EASE OF USE
We’ve conducted lessons with primary school children as young as eight and nine and found their appetite for learning, ease of use and output from ZapWorks nothing short of inspirational.
Other Media Thread
Origami anything
New algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure.
http://news.mit.edu/2017/algorithm-origami-patterns-any-3-D-structure-0622
http://origami.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tachi/software/
Measuring the Progress of AI Research
This pilot project collects problems and metrics/datasets from the AI research literature, and tracks progress on them.
https://www.eff.org/ai/metrics
“What we have thus far is an experiment, and we’d like to know: Is this information useful to the machine learning community? What important problems, datasets, and results are we missing?”
Quantum Mechanics without the maths or philosophy (visualizations)
http://www.articlesbyaphysicist.com/quantummechanics1.html
“I’ve tried to present most of an undergraduate physics course in quantum mechanics using just animations instead of equations. There will undoubtably be parts that don’t make sense, and there is a lot of detail that you can’t get without the maths. But hopefully this introduction will give more understanding of what quantum mechanics actually is and says than the hundreds of articles that mainly enumerate “weirdnesses” that quantum mechanics has. I think understanding the Schrödinger equation is much closer to understanding quantum mechanics than understanding that quantum mechanics entails quantum tunneling, things popping into existence, wave-particle duality, or the inevitable (and philosophically important) multiple universes interpretations.”
augmented reality QR codes..
https://zap.works/education/
AR quite literally brings lessons and learning to life fostering collaboration, interaction, engagement and understanding of a given topic. And let’s face it if you say, ‘Now please get your tablet or smartphone out and scan page 5’ to a class of kids you’ve got their attention.
By connecting the physical world of textbooks, lessons plans, and presentations with digital devices you and your students can add a new type of visual aid, splash of colour and excitement to any subject. Here are just a few ways ZapWorks can be used by schools
1 VISUALISING PROBLEMS
Bring handouts and presentations to life with video, photos, audio etc. and give students a new way to learn and visualize ideas.
2 IMPROVING SKILLS
Get kids to create their own AR experiences as an immersive and collaborative way to explore a given topic.
3 MAXIMIZING SPACE
Use zapcodes on posters, artwork, newsletters and school magazines to showcase more of the work created by pupils than the wall space or pages will allow!
4 IMPROVING COMPUTING
In computing classes as a fun and creative way for children to learn about designing, file sharing, and use of different media. WHY ZAPCODES FOR EDUCATION?