Traditional Wisdom on Sustainable Learning

Woodlands Wisdom: Traditional Knowledge Guiding Contemporary Health

The long-term goal of the Woodlands Wisdom Nutrition Project is to create a regional community consciousness within and between Native American communities around how food and nutrition impact community health and well-being. The figure shown below was created by the Woodlands Wisdom Academic Committee to illustrate our approach to educating students of food and nutrition science. We believe th...

Traditional Knowledge and Sustainable Development

Circles of Tobacco Wisdom: learning about traditional and commercial tobacco with Native elders.

BACKGROUND Circles of Tobacco Wisdom (CTW) was an elder-led, community-based project that aimed to enhance tobacco control in the American Indian community. Its goal was to provide elders with the knowledge, opportunities, and support to enable them to assume leadership of a tobacco control movement that was grounded in the ceremonial traditions of tobacco use. PURPOSE The purpose of this stu...

A learning algorithm based on primary school teaching wisdom

A learning algorithm based on primary school teaching and learning is presented. The methodology is to continuously evaluate the performance of the network and to train it on the examples for which they repeatedly fail, until all the examples are correctly classified. Empirical analysis on UCI data show that the algorithm produces good training data and improves the generalization ability of th...

A Learning Algorithm based on High School Teaching Wisdom

A learning algorithm based on primary school teaching and learning is presented. The methodology is to continuously evaluate the performance of the network and to train it on the examples for which they repeatedly fail, until, all the examples are correctly classified. Empirical analysis on UCI data show that the algorithm produces a good training data and improves the generalization ability of...