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Helping Students Think With Their Whole Bodies

ED Surge

Paul, who says she reads academic journal articles for fun, first encountered this argument when she came across a 1998 paper by philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, who argued that the human mind extends into the world around it. They don't have equal access to helpful mentors or really skilled teachers or motivated peers.

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Does Our Academic System Unnecessarily Pit People Against Each Other?

ED Surge

So for this week’s podcast we’re diving into his argument, talking to a philosophy professor who studied with Hussain and regularly teaches the paper to his own students. In that case, your access to health care doesn't depend on any actions that you take. One is where health care is just guaranteed—perhaps government supplied.

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Is a College Degree the Worst Investment You Can Make — or the Best?

ED Surge

And the argument is that if a university degree is a good investment, it ought to be substantially more valuable than the opportunity cost. My argument is that the risk is too high, and the returns too low. We should never talk about access to jobs as if we live in an equal world. And this is indispensable for the poor.

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How can first-year STEM university students be better supported?

Futurum

Library and research skills cover areas such as knowing how to reference and cite authors properly, being able to discern between reliable and unreliable sources of information, accessing scientific literature and giving accurate evidence-based arguments when writing scientific essays and reports. Barbara and Olivia’s top tips 1.

Biology 81
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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

The idea that exam results should be assessed differently based on a student’s socio-economic background is known as differential treatment, and Emil is investigating whether such policies can improve equality and efficiency in education and labour markets. As you can imagine, there are many arguments both for and against these ideas.

Economics 111
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Kids Online Learning Statistics 2023

The Maker Mom

When you take into account that a small portion of the population of K-12 children will not be best served by this type of virtual education model, there is a fair argument to be made for retaining traditional classrooms. Recent federal commitments to infrastructure seek to close this gap, but these changes take years.

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Animals in pain – who feels what?

Futurum

You will only ever have direct, conscious access to your own mind, so how do you know that the people around you (who you think have minds) are not just sophisticated zombies or robots? This advice applies equally well to everyday life challenges. A long-standing problem in epistemology is the ‘problem of other minds’. Meet the team.