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STEM Statistics For 2023 (Education, Diversity, Careers)

The Maker Mom

For instance, in the social sciences, women hold an impressive 64% share of the workforce. The National Science Foundation has pulled out all of the stops in an attempt to improve where the United States stands as a STEM leader. Women have gained a substantial foothold within certain categories of STEM careers.

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10 Ways to Use Defined Learning for Project-Based Learning Excellence

Cool Cat Teacher

Go to [link] to receive free 60-day access to all of Defined Learning’s PBL resources. With over 300 different performance tasks (and over 1200 products students could create), in my review of this site, I found Defined Learning easy to use. Defined Learning sponsored this blog post. All opinions are my own.

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Delve Talks: Winnie Karanja, Maydm

Maydm

As a high school student, Winnie had a passion for both math and the social sciences. Her teachers pushed her into the “easier” path of social sciences rather than encourage her interest in STEM subjects. And throughout my sort of high school experience, I’d been, you know, passionate about social sciences.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

Should we think of it essentially as a practical tool for accessing existing methods, or does it provide something fundamentally new for science? My goal here is to explore and assess what AI can and can’t be expected to do in science. We know the ones that correspond to “known science”. So how does AI stack up?

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

Stephen Wolfram

Project MAC After he left III in 1968, Ed’s next stop would be MIT, and specifically Project MAC (the “Multiple Access Computer” Project). The article said that the “MAC” stood either for “Multiple Access Computer” or “Machine-Aided Cognition”. But actually Ed had already been involved much earlier with Project MAC.