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5 Ways Edtech Enhances Social Studies Lessons

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.” Merriam Webster offers this definition: “…the study of social relationships and the functioning of society, usually made up of courses in history, government, economics, civics, sociology, geography, and anthropology” At primary levels, this includes history, science, and language arts. Financial Literacy.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

It’s worth mentioning, by the way, that while the three-body problem does show sensitive dependence on initial conditions , that’s not the primary issue here; rather, it’s the actual intrinsic complexity of the trajectories.) We already know that discrete computational systems like cellular automata are rife with computational irreducibility.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

Ed was never officially a “test pilot”, but he told me stories about figuring out how to take his plane higher than anyone else—and achieving weightlessness by flying his plane in a perfect free-fall trajectory by maintaining an eraser floating in midair in front of him.

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Multicomputation: A Fourth Paradigm for Theoretical Science

Stephen Wolfram

But then—basically starting in the early 1980s—there was a burst of progress based on a new idea (of which, yes, I seem to have ultimately been the primary initiator): the idea of using simple programs , rather than mathematical equations, as the basis for models of things in nature and elsewhere.

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Even beyond Physics: Introducing Multicomputation as a Fourth General Paradigm for Theoretical Science

Stephen Wolfram

But then—basically starting in the early 1980s—there was a burst of progress based on a new idea (of which, yes, I seem to have ultimately been the primary initiator): the idea of using simple programs , rather than mathematical equations, as the basis for models of things in nature and elsewhere.

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Exploring Culturally Responsive Science Teaching Through Turbulence and Challenge: Starting a Multi-year Research Study During the Pandemic

National Science Foundation

A primary driver of this design is that few qualitative studies of “effective teaching” exist, as teacher effectiveness is generally determined through the use of students’ test scores. Faculty were over-taxed with new technologies and administrators needed to deal with stresses on finances.

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Can music be a tool for social transformation?

Futurum

El Sistema is a publicly financed music-education programme founded in 1975 by musician and activist Jose Antonio Abreu. She is interested in the difference between how social music programmes report their success, and how well they really achieve their aims. HAS SOCIAL MUSIC IN SANTA CATARINA ACHIEVED ITS AIMS? MEET PATRICIA.