Toco toucan: Stanford - Elizabeth Gunderson: "The development of mathematical cognition and motivation" * * * Stanford Law CodeX - Jan 10, 2019: Legal Technologists: Jordan Urstadt, (Prof. Damares Medina in Portugal), Eduardo ... in Brazil, Danielle Benecke (from Australia) * * * Stanford - Mailis Reps, Minister of Education and Research of the Republic of Estonia

Thanks so much for your excellent Stanford Law CodeX presentations today, very nice to meet you, and sorry you had technical difficulties, Damares, 

Let's stay in touch too about online CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World University and School Law Schools in all ~200 countries' official and main languages (hopefully emerging out Stanford Law, since MIT doesn't have a law school from which to generate CC-4 OCW). 

Danielle and I were talking afterward about courses for law students toward law degrees - with which a global firm like BakerMacKenzie might be interested in hiring in the countries' where its geo-located - e.g. in The Netherlands (in Dutch), Canada, Australia, Germany (in German), Ireland, the USA etc. re her presentation on future law and machine learning law 4-6 years ahead - "legal innovation strategy focuses on the use of client-centered design methods to completely re-imagine services, as well as strategic investment in technology."  She suggested a course like "Design Thinking" (in multiple languages re WUaS), and perhaps Stanford Law CodeX itself could be developed further as a course in multiple languages. 

Jordan, re transactions and payments and my single cryptocurrency question post-Euro, World Univ & Sch is also seeking to explore coding legally and CS-wise for a single cryptocurrency with blockchain ledger backed by ~200 countries' central banks, in each of ~200 countries' official languages, if possible. WUaS is paying attention to MIT Digital Currency initiative's Director Neha Narula in these regards - and is a little in communication with the former Prime Minister of Italy, Matteo Renzi (who spoke at Stanford recently) about this too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/01/kadupul-flower-dutchmans-pipe-cactus.html . You'll find here MIT DCI's Neha Narula talking on a panel in the last hour or so of recent day-long MIT Blockchain with Robotic Systems' conference - some about cryptocurrency with blockchain questions .... https://youtu.be/OcSYWWuO6rU (accessible from https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/01/browne-grandiceps-stanford-future-of.html). 

You'll also find below some of the beginning WUaS law schools, not yet connected with Wikidata / Wikibase which is Wikipedia's structured knowledge database in ~300 languages. 

Glad World University and School will likely begin to accredit with the state of California's Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education in February for free-to-students' online Bachelor, Ph.D., law, and M.D. as well as I.B. high school degrees, first in English and then planned in ~200 countries' languages. Online accrediting law degrees will hopefully out of from California first as well in these regards. 

(Here too is part of the email I just sent to Stanford student Wongjun, who's interested in studying for a law degree in Korea, for further info about how WUaS works:

"Please check out ... 

Best regards, Scott")

Let's explore something like this in Brazil in Portuguese as well, Damares & Eduardo - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brazil and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Portuguese_language.

Thanks again, Roland, Damares, Danielle, Jordan, Eduardo, and Wonjun, for your great CodeX talks today. 

Best regards, 

Scott

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Dear Liz, 

Thanks so much for your rigorous experimentalism and your great studies and research which you presented today at Stanford: "Stanford Colloquium, Elizabeth Gunderson, Temple University - The development of mathematical cognition and motivation" ... https://events.stanford.edu/events/815/81539/ .

In keeping in touch, I'm curious, conceptually, how we might explore focusing your experimentation and studies in a digital environment, and even inter-lingually and in some of all ~200 countries' main languages (for example, in Google group video Hangouts), and possibly to add parallel sample sizes in some or many or these in other languages / cultural discourses / milieus. I ask this in the context of developing CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School in all ~200 countries' languages, (and indeed in all 7,097 living languages, eventually, as wiki schools for open teaching and learning+) - with an experimentation - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Experimentation- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Research - research focus, around MIT OCW in its 5 languages. Check out the MIT OCW on these pages to get an idea of how WUaS is structured, where these courses will eventually be for online credit for free-to-students' online degrees (Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and M.D. as well as I.B. in all ~200 countries' official languages +). So part of my question, is how, conceptually, might your research scale and possibly with machine learning, such as by developing experimental approaches from your studies thus far further with the assistance of Google's TensorFlow, and multi-lingually. 

In addition, re my question about mental transformation and learning vis-a-vis number lines and learning ("that mental transformation skill is a specific predictor of growth in number line estimation skill, over and above other spatial skills" and with the images you showed), and the possibility of incorporating something like Tan Le's brainwave headset, which you'll find here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/01/flower-coral-brainfingers-hands-free.html - (and of there are many of these), I wonder how we might, conceptually, simply add such a brain wave headset into your studies, but also how the neuroscience of these processes could further examined experimentally and in conversation with your studies. 

See, too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Neurobiology - which will develop as we add these "front end" wiki subject pages to Wikidata / Wikibase as a "back end" (and which is Wikipedia's "back end" too in its ~300 languages). 

As a third question, how wonder how a kind of "relaxation response" (meditation in Asian countries? ... per Herbert Benson MD's 1972 book of this name) as a response to anxiety (math anxiety too) could be measured and factored into your studies, conceptually, with brain wave headsets, and in a digital environment, in ways that it might not be in physical on-the-ground classrooms. 

(I noticed too that your colleague Liesje Spaepen was a key author in a 2018 paper - "Meaning before order: Cardinal principle knowledge predicts improvement in understanding the successor principle and exact ordering" - with you https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Vm9ZbxoAAAAJ - which could add a multiple language approach conceptually to your studies since she's multi-lingual (https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabet-liesje-spaepen-15b451a7/) . Might we even explore inviting her into this budding conversation as well? There's a lot of innovative and creative scientific potential in such relatively new approaches to online research - and, conceptually too, and especially re multi-lingual MIT OCW-centric World University and School.  

(Incidentally, I lived in Hamden / New Haven, CT, growing up, and in Cambridge, MA, before that too; my father was on the medical faculty at Yale, and was doing his residency in Boston). 

Very nice to meet and talk with you afterward, Liz, albeit briefly, and thanks so much for your fascinating and excellent talk. Looking forward to staying in touch (and re the above "brainstorming" as well). Thank you.

Best regards, 

Scott

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Dear Mailis, (and Michael and Kristo, an Estonian Ph.D. graduate student at Stanford - https://history.stanford.edu/people/kristo-nurmis),

Thanks so much for your fascinating and comprehensive 'cultural' overview of education in Estonia today, Mailis - https://events.stanford.edu/events/814/81485/. And congratulations on coming in first too in European education re CES, - and ahead of Finland!

How might we best explore further developing a CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Estonia World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Estonia - in the Estonian language - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Estonian_language - around the MIT OpenCourseWare's ~2500 courses in English (https://ocw.mit.edu/), which are Creative Commons' 4 licensed (allowing for A) sharing, B) adapting, including translating, but C) non-commercially)?

Perhaps in the process, we can also build in basic scientific research into learning processes in the Estonian language (which World Univ & Sch, planning to be in each of all ~7097 living languages is interested in studying linguistically for a variety of reasons).

Estonians would get MIT for free-to-students' degrees, and it would be a very creative opportunity for Estonian educators to develop this as well. World Univ & Sch seeks to become the Stanford / Harvard d/ MIT / Oxbridge of the Internet in each of all ~200 countries' official / main languages. 

Thank you.

Best regards, Scott

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