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The web, smartphones and artificial intelligence are indispensable parts of our everyday lives, but they have become increasingly invasive. Used at too young an age, they disrupt the acquisition of basic skills such as language and can lead to addictive behavior. AI is progressing so quickly that it is upsetting education and society at large, and generating fears that we may be losing control. Facing these challenges, we urgently need to put the brain at the center of the game and adapt our teaching strategies with a better understanding of the young brain under construction.
In this book, we present for the first time a panorama of the brain's natural resources for advancing the 4 major mental abilities - skills, intelligence, personality and creativity - the 4 objectives of education. We call them the 4 Essential Games, because, as in any Game, progress is by no means guaranteed and can generate a great deal of permanent pleasure.
The Panoramic Brain can inspire parents, teachers, and students. It can help design long-term winning strategies for children and teenagers to progress fully in the world of the Web and AI, learning to pilot the Web and AI wisely. It can also help developers to propose brain-friendly AI.
Yves Burnod
Yves Burnod (Ecole Polytechnique, Neuroscience PhD) is a brain scientist, pioneer in multi-scale modeling of the brain at its 4 biological levels (brain Atlas, neural nets of the Cortical Column, neuronal programs with neuromodulators, proteins of synaptic plasticity); he set up the first INSERM-CNRS labs and EU programs to use artificial intelligence to synthetize by multi-scale models the gold mine of scientific results on the brain.
Niki Burnod is a teacher committed to educational innovation to boost the progress of mental capacities of all children, combining progress and pleasure as a continuous exciting game, motivating apathetic teenagers through coherent and rewarding discoveries, finding new learning and creative pathways for children who are struggling at school.