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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

ED Surge

Brain science research is increasingly bolstering the idea that math instruction rooted in culturally relevant problem-solving helps students draw from their lived experiences and activates distinct areas of the brain, producing durable and deep learning.

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AI in Higher Ed: Using What We Already Know About Good Teaching Practices

ED Surge

We learned what we could from the books we had access to and memorized facts to regurgitate on tests. This was the epitome of knowledge and learning before the internet became widely available. Telling a student to go to the library to access a physical copy of something is the outlier instead of the norm.

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2024 Spotlight: Women Leading the Way in STEM

STEM Sport

The STEM gender gap can be combated through access to quality STEM education. Alongside this access, it is extremely important and impactful for young girls and female students to have successful STEM role models to look up to and use as mentors throughout their STEM journey. Dr. Carolyn R. Bertozzi Dr. Carolyn R.

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How can intelligent systems revolutionise healthcare?

Futurum

Published: Access to quality healthcare is a basic human right. These systems can securely store and share patient information, ensuring that healthcare professionals have access to comprehensive and up-to-date data, regardless of geographical location,” says Narges. How can intelligent systems revolutionise healthcare?

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What is the 21st Century Lesson Plan?

Ask a Tech Teacher

This includes online dictionaries and thesauruses, how-to videos, and access to teacher assistance outside of class. Students use habits of mind like critical thinking, deep learning, and evidence-based decisions to decide on the right answers. Problem solving is integral to learning. Keyboarding skills are granular.

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Online battles: combatting false information and reducing online risks

Futurum

Deepfake — manipulation of existing digital media (image, video and/or audio) – e.g., by swapping faces and changing voices – or creation of new media, typically using machine learning-based techniques such as deep learning. Additionally, many apps and other digital platforms require access to your data to work correctly.”.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

And for example the concept of “temperature” is there because exponential distributions familiar from statistical physics happen to be being used, but there’s no “physical” connection—at least so far as we know.) In this particular case, we can use known laws of physics to work it out.

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