'Passive' visual stimuli plays a key part in our early learning experiences and as such should be replicated in AI systems, according to neuroscientists in Italy.

Passive learning is deceptive. It feels like we’re making progress, but without actually applying what we learn, it remains abstract, untested, and slips away quickly.

Counterintuitively, passive learning like lectures is harder to adapt to remote teaching. Lecturing becomes even more passive online, so the lectures need to be much shorter to be effective.

But research on learning in these contexts tends to be presentational in nature—children are passive watchers of the pretense or fiction rather than active players. Children’s natural play is ...

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