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If We’re Serious About Student Well-Being, We Must Change the Systems Students Learn In

ED Surge

According to the American Psychological Association, students from more affluent families are more likely to have access to resources such as devices, internet, dedicated work space and the support necessary to complete their work successfully—and homework can highlight those inequities. Class rankings fuel these cutthroat environments.

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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

Bitsize is the BBC’s collection of free short videos and lessons (they’re all bite-sized) on over fifty subjects taught in Primary or Secondary education. C-Span Classroom is free but requires registration to access materials. The website showcases work at film festivals and on over 100 public broadcast and cable channels.

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

And for AIs we’re providing a variety of tools —like immediate computable access to documentation , and computable error handling. There’s a public Prompt Repository that so far has several hundred curated prompts. is experimental access to multimodal LLMs that can take images as well as text as input. In Version 14.0

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Kelvin’s ideas about the inevitable dissipation of “useful energy” spread quickly—by 1854, for example, finding their way into an eloquent public lecture by Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894). There’s lots of rhetoric: The applicability of the calculus of probabilities to a particular case can of course never be proved with precision.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). I first met Ed in 1982—on an island in the Caribbean he had bought with money from taking public a tech company he’d founded. Even after Ed left active management of III, he was still its chairman.