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How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving

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It’s fascinating that today’s game playing youth want a set of rules they must beat, parameters they must meet, levels (read: standards) they must achieve, and a Big Goal (think: graduation) they can only reach after a lot of hard work, intense thinking, and mountains of problems. Which they love. Do you see what I’m doing?

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Winds of change: using dust in Antarctic ice to understand past climates

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Bess is an Assistant Professor of Geology at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, in the US. DR BESS KOFFMAN Assistant Professor of Geology Colby College, Waterville, Maine, USA. Paleoclimate Science, Geology. ABOUT GEOLOGY. PALAEOCLIMATE – the climate of the Earth or a certain region at a past point in geologic time.

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STEM in Science Classrooms – Difference Between Science and Technology

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As the country rolled into the 21st century, STEM achievements in the US were behind those in other countries. Science in STEM It encompasses fields such as geology, chemistry, physics, biology, and astronomy. The institution began to ramp up programs in support of STEM subjects in a boatload of American schools.

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

Stephen Wolfram

So many discoveries, so many inventions, so much achieved, so much learned. And key to everything we do is leveraging what we have already done—often taking what in earlier years was a pinnacle of technical achievement, and now using it as a routine building block to reach a level that could barely even be imagined before.

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