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.”

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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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CoderZ

MARCH 20, 2024

Highlighting diverse STEM role models such as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson , astronaut Mae Jemison , science communicator Stephanie Castillo , or molecular biologists Tsuneko and Reiji Okazaki shows students that everyone can achieve success in STEM disciplines.

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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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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

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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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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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. Access to a CS class or curriculum does not always mean success. This can bridge the gap and cultivate a more diverse tech workforce.

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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

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. Professor Birgitta Rabe is using this data to inform government support for children’s well-being. TALK LIKE AN … ECONOMIST.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 28, 2017

Her article today can be summed up by a line in the last paragraph: “ Technology is not your enemy…” Educators aim to equip students with an understanding of the world, its fragility, & opportunities, by teaching them various common subjects like math, language, or science. 2) Instructional Design.

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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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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

With these insights from his research, Emil hopes that future policymakers will design public policies that not only use differential treatment to improve access to education and promotion opportunities, but that also restructure school districts and businesses in ways that reduce inequality in education and labour markets.

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The Maker Mom

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For instance, in the social sciences, women hold an impressive 64% share of the workforce. Children possess a natural curiosity and will learn math and science with ease through free play. Women have gained a substantial foothold within certain categories of STEM careers. This is an increase of 45% since 1970.

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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. I think working across different disciplines and constantly learning about new ideas is fantastic, as is being able to work with people. TALK LIKE A COMPUTER SCIENTIST.

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Educators Technology

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From reading the literature to writing up the first draft of your paper, engaging in academic research means that you are in an ongoing process of learning and growth. What you need is access to academic search engines. To learn more about these tools check out this post titled best 12 tools to organize citations and references.

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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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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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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.” By the end of the year, the Dhariwals had created a working prototype for CoCo Learn , which they describe as “a real-time, co-creative platform for young people.” This was in early 2019.

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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

While some of the resources you might come across are available for free most of the academic literature, as you know, is paywalled and you can either use your institutional affiliation or purchase the document yourself to access it. Users get access to thousands of titles, millions of author profiles and 1.7

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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 8, 2022

Sophie on a canopy access crane in China. Environmental science is an interdisciplinary field which seeks to find effective means of understanding and managing the world in which we live. Shalom and Sophie on a site visit to the tower at Bobiri Forest Reserve, Ghana. © Sophie Fauset. Shalom on a visit to a local community. © Shalom D.

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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. I also teach GIS and data science classes, all with a geophysical component, and conduct research in these topics. Remember, there is always value in your personal background.

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Futurum

JUNE 21, 2022

I went to college and studied GCSE sociology where I learned that kids like me were set up to fail. At school or college, study social science or humanities subjects (such as law, sociology, politics, anthropology, history or human geography). • Learn more here. As lecturers, we can learn a great deal from students.

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Scientix

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Our curriculum is student-centered, with a focus on project-based learning and problem-solving. We strive to enhance access, relevance, and opportunities for all members of our community by making the school a hub for learning. National curricula also face logistical, social, and political barriers.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

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. So now what do we mean by science, and by “doing science”?

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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. Once this is done, the CTC video footage will be accessible to artificial intelligence image analysis techniques. Scientific imaging in physics.

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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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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Shadow Puppet Edu is an excellent free easy to use app for Project Based Learning and Digital Storytelling. We''re super excited about the potential here in social science and science classes—our search tools make it possible to access and use amazing content from Library of Congress and NASA in a way we haven''t seen any other apps do.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This is an excellent easy to use app for Project Based Learning and Digital Storytelling. We''re super excited about the potential here in social science and science classes—our search tools make it possible to access and use amazing content from Library of Congress and NASA in a way we haven''t seen any other apps do.

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Technology Tidbits

APRIL 21, 2015

Shadow Puppet Edu is an excellent easy to use app for Project Based Learning and Digital Storytelling. We''re super excited about the potential here in social science and science classes—our search tools make it possible to access and use amazing content from Library of Congress and NASA in a way we haven''t seen any other apps do.

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Technology Tidbits

JUNE 27, 2014

This is an excellent easy to use app for Project Based Learning and Digital Storytelling. We''re super excited about the potential here in social science and science classes—our search tools make it possible to access and use amazing content from Library of Congress and NASA in a way we haven''t seen any other apps do.

Social Sciences 49

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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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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

But by now there are endless examples of machine learning systems that do well at reproducing human judgement in lots of domains. Could we “learn how to make sense of it”? But an alternative approach—more aligned with machine learning—is just to give examples, and (implicitly or explicitly) say “follow these”.

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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. And Ed was now one of them.

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