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What is the 21st Century Lesson Plan?

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You allow different approaches as long as students achieve the Big Idea or answer the Essential Question. You aren’t the only one to come up with these varied approaches–students know what works best for their learning and present it to you as an option. This information doesn’t always agree on a conclusion.

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Are we giving young people the capabilities they need to succeed?

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In the 1980s, Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen challenged traditional welfare economics with his capabilities approach – a concept that focuses on a person’s actual capability to achieve well-being or life success, rather that it being a mere right. Too often, students are asking, “Why am I learning this? ABOUT SHAUN.

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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

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He is principal investigator for the Smorphacade control system, bringing with him a broad research background involving structures, wind vibration, and data-driven modelling. This proactive shape-changing will require a sophisticated control system, which is where Jared comes in. We use wind tunnels to test aeroelastic models,” says Alice.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

I started a journal and a research center, and collected my papers in a book entitled Theory and Applications of Cellular Automata (later reissued as Cellular Automata and Complexity ). The result was that in late 1986 I started the development of Mathematica (and what’s now the Wolfram Language) and founded Wolfram Research.

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