Elena Bunina: цитаты - Росконгресс

04.06.2021

SPIEF 2021

Coadaptation Issues from School to University

It’s important not only to do certain things for children; it is important to help the teacher because teachers are confused. The first thing that we have done from the very beginning and have continued to do now over the last year is to provide all kinds of help to teachers. That is, create a resource where the teacher can read what is happening, what can be done, how to conduct remote lessons in general, what are the rules there, and what resources are online in principle. I believe continuous teacher training, which we also offer throughout the country, is also very important

04.06.2021

SPIEF 2021

Coadaptation Issues from School to University

When Yandex launched its projects [...], we thought that the most important thing was to educate personnel for ourselves and, by extension, for everyone else, if that were to work out by chance. That’s why we preferred to do something like a master’s degree, that is, we had classes on our unconditional subjects [...] and it was like a master’s degree or a data analysis school. At first, we were satisfied with this, then [...] we started to sort of slide down in terms of age, getting younger and younger. This is how Yandex.Lyceum was actually formed. First, we started doing a bachelor's degree, and then we realized that we needed to move down in terms of age to school and teach high school students something. And then we will already have kids coming to universities who are well prepared for what we need in the future

04.06.2021

SPIEF 2021

Big Challenges and New Partnerships: How to Unite Science and Society

The most dangerous thing is that parents tell their children: ‘Don’t go into science, you won’t earn any money’, as was the case in the 1990s. This survey suggests that they aren’t saying that, which means that children have more freedom. The happy fact that now mothers aren’t telling their daughters and fathers aren’t telling their sons that there’s no point going into science — this in itself is already a huge leap forward

06.06.2019

SPIEF 2019

Strategy for Integration of Science, Education, and Business

Today, all higher education institutions have a good understanding of the need to integrate strongly with business, but business, for its part, also realised long ago that it is impossible to hire students and train them as they used to do. <...> We taught students data analysis from the 4th grade, it was good, because they could study, say, at the Moscow State University, from the 4th year to go to us in the evenings, to finish their studies, and then started working for us. <...> At some point we realised that this was not enough, that we needed to integrate more. We opened the School of Computer Science at the Higher School of Economics, and things improved. On top of the obligatory basic education courses we introduce practical courses right away. Then on the third course, our students are placed on an internship, after which they are more or less ours

08.06.2019

SPIEF 2019

Is (Artificial) Intelligence Possible Without Mathematics?

There are products for which it is not important how they work, whereas it is the result that is important. For example, music recommendations. I do not think you would be interested in the algorithm. <…> If we take something serious, say, healthcare. You do not want to bring your test results to the doctor who would upload them to a black box and the black box would provide a diagnosis that you have not expected. <…> You would demand an explanation. I think, you should always divide products into those you can experiment with without thinking so much about mathematics, and those whose functioning must be transparent

06.06.2019

SPIEF 2019

Who Stands to Win in the Global Competition for Supremacy in Artificial Intelligence?

First comes the fundamental mathematical education, and then it should be topped with programming, data analysis and all other applications related to artificial intelligence. Companies should do that together with the state

06.06.2019

SPIEF 2019

Who Stands to Win in the Global Competition for Supremacy in Artificial Intelligence?

Our company now has a 50% growth in proceeds. <...> The whole company is built on artificial intelligence; we do not have anything else. 100% of our proceeds come from the AI technology

26.05.2018

SPIEF 2018

Maths in the Digital Age

The right thing to do in schools is not to begin by writing out figures, but by showing how beautiful and important mathematics is. It is important to demonstrate how, in today’s world, much in mathematics is tied in with algorithms. The people who attain success will be those who can combine a good knowledge of mathematics <...> with strong communication skills.

24.05.2018

SPIEF 2018

The Digital Economy and Education: Changing the Paradigm

We do need people. What’s more, we need the cleverest, strongest, and most well-rounded people. But in order <...> for them to come into being, we need to build a large feeder system. For example, by secondary school we need children who have shown an interest in programming to actually start attempting it

24.05.2018

SPIEF 2018

The Digital Economy and Education: Changing the Paradigm

This school year, 100 junior mathematics classes were launched via our platform. It works like this: a teacher <...> can, presuming there are tablet devices in the classroom, assign a task during the lesson via the platform. If the classroom is not equipped in this way <...> then the teacher can simply give homework via the platform. <...> Teachers have said that their job has become much easier. They really like the fact that they don’t need to spend excessive time on marking homework – about a third of their time has freed up. Essentially, we help teachers spend more time on actual teaching