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Here Comes Another Trend in K-12 Science Education: Data Science

Chillax Science

If you are or have been a school teacher, you are probably familiar with the feelings associated with constant changes to the curriculum. Inconsistencies are the reality of many school districts and even private schools. We are now entering another science education trend that arguably will also hurt students learning.

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What Is Zearn — the Math Platform the Gates Foundation Is Betting Big On?

ED Surge

And like so much during the pandemic, the losses were worse for some communities, with achievement gaps having widened during the pandemic. billion in the hopes of closing achievement gaps in K-12 math education. Schools and districts pay for extra services like teacher training or printed versions of their digital lessons.

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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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Trends That Are Driving Change

Magic EdTech

According to Mckinsey, EdTech companies are constantly looking to upskill their workforce as remote schooling technologies have become more advanced. English is a widely spoken language in India, so EdTech companies are able to achieve rapid success there. EdTech’s Demand for Upskilling In-House Talent. billion five years ago to $3.8

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Trends That Are Driving Change

Magic EdTech

According to Mckinsey, EdTech companies are constantly looking to upskill their workforce as remote schooling technologies have become more advanced. English is a widely spoken language in India, so EdTech companies are able to achieve rapid success there. EdTech’s Demand for Upskilling In-House Talent. billion five years ago to $3.8

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Modelling minds: can computers mimic human intelligence?

Futurum

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., I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my career, so I explored all these different interests through high school.

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