Simon Knokgaard Halskov (@halskov.wsocial.eu)

Simon Knokgaard Halskov

@halskov.wsocial.eu

Senior Press Consultant at the University of Copenhagen. Head of Press and Communications at CAISA – the National Centre for AI in Society. Father of five – passionate about movies, prog rock and football.

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Simon Knokgaard Halskov

@halskov.wsocial.eu

Denmark needs legislation to rescue AI from the public sector’s digital graveyard. Only six out of 22 completed flagship AI projects in the public sector have gone live, the rest were shut down. Two UCPH researchers see legal uncertainty as a key reason: news.ku.dk/all_news/202...

Simon Knokgaard Halskov

@halskov.wsocial.eu

Phone-free lessons boosts grades. My colleague Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen has conducted an experiment involving 16,000 students. It shows that phone-free teaching improves academic performance – particularly amongst students who have the lowest grades. Read the study, published in Science, here:

science.orgPhones impede learning: Evidence from a massive phone-free classroom experimentLower-performing students benefited the most, but even higher-performing students expressed support for the policy

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