A Simple Visual Model for a Science of Education

Join this 50-minute lecture from the Fields Institute where mathematician Keith Devlin explores the potential of a simple visual model for understanding educational science. Learn how research conducted for US Intelligence post-9/11 led to the development of a category theory-like diagram that shows promise in structuring teaching and learning approaches. Discover how this model has been successfully applied in military contexts, including PTSD treatment for veterans and the design of search-and-rescue robots. Examine how simple visual models, while not perfectly accurate, can effectively capture key operational features and facilitate thinking and communication, similar to the Bohr atomic model, electric circuit diagrams, and molecular network representations.