Invited Speaker Abstracts

Unfortunately, many students stop using these beneficial learning practices as soon Presented by Stephen Grossberg, Department of Cognitive as the metatutoring ceases. Apparently, the metatutors were and Neural Systems, Center for Adaptive Systems, and Center nagging rather than convincing. This talk will present a of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science, and study of Pyrenees, a metatutor that coaches students to focus Technology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 on learning domain principles rather than solutions to A deep and rational understanding of the factors that influence examples. It was convincing, in that students who were effective education and learning technologies depends taught probability with Pyrenees used principle-based problem on a corresponding understanding of how the brain in health solving on post-test more so than students taught by Andes, and disease controls learned behaviors. There has been a which did not focus students on principles. Moreover, revolution in discovering new computational paradigms, organizational when all students were transferred to Andes for learning principles, mechanisms, and models of how of physics, those who were metatutored used the principlefocused learning processes enable brains to give rise to minds.