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Hard vs Soft Skills in STEM Education

STEM Sport

Hard skills in STEM encompass the technical and specialized knowledge that students acquire in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Here are some primary hard skills: Data Analysis: The ability to collect, interpret, and draw meaningful conclusions from data.

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Helping social studies teachers to teach data literacy with Teaspoon languages

Computing Education Research Blog

Teaspoon languages: Support learning tasks that teachers (typically non-CS teachers) want students to achieve; Are programming languages, in that they specify computational processes for a computational agent to execute; and Are learnable in less than 10 minutes, so that they can be learned and used in a one hour lesson.

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Can we control the electrical activity in our brains?

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If they can achieve this in mice, they will then turn their attention to the much greater challenge of applying this in humans. “It Two areas of overlapping colours show the primary and secondary whisker areas. Pinterest. Colour-coded areas of activity within the brain that were the result of whisker stimulation. careers/courses. •

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Modelling minds: can computers mimic human intelligence?

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This relies on the capacity for cognitive control — the ability to take an instruction (or internal intention) and use it to override a strongly learnt association or instinctive reflex to achieve a different goal (e.g., from a computer to a musical instrument). naming the colour or not worsening the inflammation causing the itch).

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