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Hard vs Soft Skills in STEM Education

STEM Sport

While hard skills provide the foundational knowledge and technical expertise necessary to solve complex problems and conduct research, soft skills enable effective communication, teamwork, and adaptability. 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. PDF of Submitted.

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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., naming the colour or not worsening the inflammation causing the itch). from a computer to a musical instrument).

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Can we control the electrical activity in our brains?

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This research has the potential to deepen our understanding of the human brain, paving the way for treatments of conditions such as epilepsy and schizophrenia. How does neuroscience research on mice benefit humans? Two areas of overlapping colours show the primary and secondary whisker areas. Field of research : Neuroscience.

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

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Dr Elsa Anderson Role: Assistant Professor, Programme in Environmental Science Institution: Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) I teach an urban ecology class that aims to engage students in learning about nature where they live and understanding the interactions between people and their surroundings.

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

Stephen Wolfram

we’ve been steadily delivering the fruits of our research and development in.1 So many discoveries, so many inventions, so much achieved, so much learned. Building Something Greater and Greater… for 35 Years and Counting Today we celebrate a new waypoint on our journey of nearly four decades with the release of Version 14.0

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