ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

They envision an ecosystem where learners buy access to courses without enrolling in colleges; where teachers profit directly from their teaching; where students track progress on ever-lengthening credential chains; and where people who invest in the right tokens gather in learning groups to explore topics of mutual interest.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

But separate from that hype, virtual reality is already being used at colleges in ways that seem more mainstream, as a tool that has the potential to enhance teaching and learning. Virtual reality could also create new career opportunities for students. Community colleges are central to this.” Or it might mean taking research off campus.

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CoderZ

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

One of the fundamental aspects of utilizing CS and technology skills in a culturally responsive way is ensuring that educational programs are inclusive and accessible to a diverse range of students. There is a big push to include CS in all high schools, as there should be. Support for students and teachers is needed.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Additionally, financial services also provide access to large sums of money, which criminals try to access through mobile banking malware. Most people will easily trade a long-term goal, such as protecting their security, with a short-term goal, such as immediately accessing a digital resource.”

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 9, 2023

Join the waitlist to gain access to plugins. The ChatGPT plugin store is accessed, and you can install the Wolfram Alpha plugin! This will likely change your instruction, move you towards mastery learning, and perhaps flipping your classroom. (See ChatGPT Adds Plugins ChatGPT is gradually adding plugins.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

His mission is to make healthcare-related music participation accessible to all who will most benefit from it. The benefits of music “Music is particularly powerful because it is a complex, but accessible, activity,” explains Gilles. Gilles is convinced of the power of music for improving health and well-being.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Economics — a branch of social science that studies the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services, as well as a huge variety of other complex issues of vital concern to society. The importance of schools. Professor Birgitta Rabe is using this data to inform government support for children’s well-being.

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Futurum

JUNE 30, 2022

Across Peru, thousands of people do not have access to clean water or efficient transport links. He is investigating the connection between poor transport links and social inequality, and bringing sanitation to a remote community in the Andes. Access to water and sanitation are fundamental human rights. Published: June 30, 2022.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The first student has an extremely high grade point average (GPA) from their school exams, while the second student’s GPA is still good, but not as high. They grew up in an affluent neighbourhood with wealthy parents who could afford to send them to a top-class school and pay for one-to-one tutoring to help them prepare for their exams.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 28, 2017

Today’s guest writer is Finja Kruse, a teacher experienced in different educational tools and engaged in creative writing activities in school. By learning various subjects simultaneously, integration between them and relativity to the world outside of academia can sometimes get lost in translation.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 26, 2022

However, as we become ever-more reliant on software, ensuring it is accessible for all of society is a growing necessity. ACCESSIBLE — can be obtained easily and used by everyone. A lot of existing software is not accessible to certain demographics, which raises issues for equity and inclusion. TALK LIKE A SOFTWARE ENGINEER.

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Futurum

JUNE 22, 2023

Language is also a barrier to social inclusion in the US,” explains Lidia. “If If immigrants don’t speak enough English to get by, they will struggle to access resources and fully integrate into a new community in a new country.” And, if immigrants are undocumented, they may live in fear of discovery and so avoid social contact.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 4, 2022

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. Machine learning — AI algorithms and systems able to automatically learn from data to perform a specific task.

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The Maker Mom

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Education and outreach to girls starting in primary school have increased, as well as the number of women who receive degrees in STEM-related fields. For instance, in the social sciences, women hold an impressive 64% share of the workforce. Rose-Hulman, and even Ivy League schools like Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton.

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Futurum

AUGUST 16, 2022

At the University of East Anglia in the UK, Dr Oli Buckley’s research project is combining computer science and social science to answer these questions. DR OLI BUCKLEY Associate Professor Cyber Security School of Computing Sciences University of East Anglia, UK. EXPLORE CAREERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE. •

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National Science Foundation

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In teaching, the implicit bias, automatic thoughts, views, or judgments we may have about students can deprive them of opportunities and learning experiences. Implicit bias develops over a lifetime and is described as attitudes or stereotypes that affect our judgements or assessments of others (NEA Center for Social Justice, 2021).

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Futurum

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“It involves not just fire behaviour but also animal ecology, human ethics, social science, engineering, politics, environmental law, health science and mathematics.” Pathway from school to bushfire risk analysis • At school and post-16, take maths alongside other science subjects like biology and chemistry.

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Scientix

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

CC-By , provided by the author Betim Muço is a co-educational school located in the capital city of Tirana, Albania, a country situated in the south-eastern part of Europe. After-school clubs support mental and physical health, providing a safe space for students to develop their skills and talents.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2023

candidates at MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten research group, say it all started with a single piece of feedback: “Just make learning fun.” Scrawled across a form, the advice came from a group of 12 year olds at a mindfulness retreat hosted at a school near MIT. Manuj Dhariwal and Shruti Dhariwal, a pair of Ph.D. This was in early 2019.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

DR SOPHIE FAUSET School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK. Field of research : Environmental Science. Sophie on a canopy access crane in China. Pathway from school to environmental science. I always enjoyed science at school, and my dad was a chemistry teacher.

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Futurum

JUNE 21, 2022

DR ABENAA OWUSU-BEMPAH Associate Professor of Law, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. PATHWAY FROM SCHOOL TO LAW. • I am interested in using research to understand real-world social issues. I went to college and studied GCSE sociology where I learned that kids like me were set up to fail.

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Futurum

APRIL 12, 2023

Talk like a geographic information systems expert Cartography — map making Environmental justice — ensuring equitable access to the environment for all people. All aspects of school are important, not just the academic content of your classes. Although I had some good teachers, I felt stifled by high school.

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Futurum

MAY 23, 2022

What lessons can we learn from past pandemics? Some of the hardest hit regions were the world’s remotest places, as they did not have access to medical care. Studying the 1918 influenza pandemic enables social scientists to better understand how social inequalities contribute to different mortality outcomes.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

When researchers visit the facility to capture images, they are supported by scientists, including research software engineers who help them process their data and access software. DR JOANNA LENG School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK. Funder : Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

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Maydm

JUNE 11, 2021

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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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

And so it was that I set about running programs that I later learned were a simplified version of what had been called “cellular automata” before. Nothing I’ve learned in these 36 years has dulled the strength and beauty of rule 30 and those early discoveries about complexity. There are exciting—and surprising—things.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 3, 2023

At 15th Street Farm in Florida, USA, Emmanuel Roux and Professor David Himmelgreen run an education project to help local families learn about their local food systems and make healthier food choices. The 15th Street Farm NEP is serving school-aged children and families who primarily live in marginalised communities,” explains David.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Ed was someone who wanted to independently figure things out for himself, and delighted in presenting his often somewhat-outlandish conclusions—whether about technology, science, business or the world—with dramatic showman-like panache. He used to like to tell people I’d learned a lot from him.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

WHY DO WE NEED TO RESEARCH SOCIAL MUSIC PROJECTS? people in church, at school assemblies or at gigs, you will know that special feeling of connection when your voices combine. PROFESSOR OSCAR ODENA Professor of Education School of Education and School of Interdisciplinary Studies University of Glasgow, UK. MEET ANDREA.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

In 1845 Kelvin (as we’ll call him) had spent some time in Paris (primarily at at a lab that was measuring properties of steam for the French government), and there he’d learned about Carnot’s work from Clapeyron’s paper (at first he couldn’t get a copy of Carnot’s actual book). But first we have to go back a bit in the story.

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Futurum

AUGUST 29, 2023

Classroom resources for the new school year Tweet Share 0 Skype Reddit +1 Pinterest 0 LinkedIn 0 Email Are you looking for free and engaging educational resources to use in your classroom? As students and teachers head back to school, why not use our free educational resources in your lessons? Look no further!

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