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SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts

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SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts Published: Social sciences, humanities and the arts are vital for addressing complex challenges, but do young people truly understand their value? What is SHAPE? Society depends on creatives just as much as scientists.

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. This story also appeared in USA Today Falling off that path can lock students out of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers.

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How is mathematics applied to real world problems?

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How is mathematics applied to real world problems? Published: Mathematics is essential to our way of life. Professor Anotida Madzvamuse , an applied mathematician at the University of Sussex , in the UK, and the University of British Columbia , in Canada, led the UK-Africa Postgraduate Advanced Study Institute in Mathematical Sciences.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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The idea that exam results should be assessed differently based on a student’s socio-economic background is known as differential treatment, and Emil is investigating whether such policies can improve equality and efficiency in education and labour markets. Stock markets, unemployment, inflation and recession?

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5 Ways Edtech Enhances Social Studies Lessons

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According to Wikipedia: “In the United States education system, social studies is the integrated study of multiple fields of social science and the humanities, including history, geography, and political science.” One of the best to teach government is iCivics.

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Cyber security for the AI age

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Burcu’s research findings are helping policymakers and educators incorporate the behaviours and motivations of technology users into their work. It’s important to educate people on cyber security to raise awareness and establish responsible digital behaviour as a norm,” says Burcu.

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Computer Science was always supposed to be taught to everyone, and it wasn’t about getting a job: A historical perspective

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I gave four keynote talks in the last two months, at SIGITE , Models 2021 Educators’ Symposium , VL/HCC , and CSERC. I’m not going to go into the LSA Computing Education effort or Teaspoon languages here. ” He argued that everyone needed to learn about computer science, in order to have democratic control of these processes.