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Essential Tips: What Are The Key Elements of Integrative Learning?

STEM Education Shopping

We can draw upon various fields such as science, humanities, social sciences, and arts to enrich our understanding. Through collaborative projects or team-based activities, we learn how to communicate effectively across disciplines and leverage each other’s strengths.

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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

Futurum

Ben and Julia used two social science research methods to gather data. However, environmental geography is a very interdisciplinary field, and those who want to work within it need training in social science as well – including psychology, sociology, political science and communications,” says Ben. •

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

As you can imagine, there are many arguments both for and against these ideas. How does economics combine mathematics and social science? In employment contexts, is it fair to promote an employee who has missed a year of work because they had a baby, over an employee who has been working continuously for many years?

Economics 111
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Prosecuting rap: can we get racial discrimination out of the courtroom?

Futurum

DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. My career highlights have been working with communities to establish much needed services, and my first published book which was based on my PhD topic.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Later he describes what he calls the “Principle of the Communication of Heat”. then goes on to develop what’s now called the heat equation and all sorts of mathematics around it, all the while effectively adopting a caloric theory of heat.

Energy 88
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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

Computing Education Research Blog

My activities in computing education these days are organized around two main projects: Defining computing education for undergraduates in the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and Arts (see earlier blog post referencing this effort ); Participatory design of Teaspoon languages (mentioned most recently in this blog post ).

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

Stephen Wolfram

Richard Feynman and I would get into very fierce arguments. He relishes calling his parents dopes, but aside from arguments about subjects like how late he should be able to hang out with his buddies, its clear that he doesn’t think we’re dopes. It’s just my nature. Some glide through that period of life without hassle.