ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2023

Formulaic writing, especially tasks completed within the span of a class period, robs students of the opportunities to consider their audience and think strategically about their argument and voice. Like many teachers who grappled with ChatGPT, my initial concerns were that these moments would become another casualty of AI.

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Jacobs Physics

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Arguments are resolved quickly. Not only is she modeling appropriate technique, demeanor, and procedures in the studio, she is physically separate from the other students. James and Shari were describing in different contexts why the ground state of my class consists of me at my computer in front of the room.

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STEM Education Shopping

AUGUST 21, 2023

Another study conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan revealed that puzzle-solving can enhance spatial reasoning skills, which are crucial for understanding and manipulating objects in both the physical and virtual worlds. Furthermore, puzzles provide an opportunity for individuals to develop perseverance and resilience.

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STEM Education Guide

MARCH 9, 2023

Although it can merge with other fields such as engineering, technology is generally used to describe computer-related jobs. Computer programmers code the software for the engineers to plan. Children may also be interested to learn that video game developers and designers are also classified as computer scientists.

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Futurum

APRIL 18, 2023

A digital abundance All areas of science have benefited from the rise of computation and the internet. “We The majority of this computing power comes from open-source software. Computer vision Much of MS&E characterisation data is in the form of images. “In

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 2, 2018

It has become a familiar argument between those who believe children intuitively learn to type (“see them on smartphones and iPads–they don’t need help”) and those of us who believe instruction makes them better, faster. This topic that is close to my tech teacher soul.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Library and research skills cover areas such as knowing how to reference and cite authors properly, being able to discern between reliable and unreliable sources of information, accessing scientific literature and giving accurate evidence-based arguments when writing scientific essays and reports. What do students learn from studying this?

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The Science Penguin

AUGUST 11, 2023

The NGSS organizes the Disciplinary Core Ideas into four major domains: Physical Sciences (PS) Life Sciences (LS) Earth and Space Sciences (ESS) Engineering, Technology, and the Applications of Science (ETS) Each domain includes grade-appropriate concepts that build upon one another as students progress through their education.

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STEMe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

We need to connect Einstein's theory of general relativity with quantum physics. Einstein stated that the laws of physics apply the same to every individual regardless of the speed that they are moving at, or the place they are at.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 29, 2022

You can probably get a 750 word post in 10 minutes by just firing up Google Docs and talking into your computer about how things went in class today.   I felt like I had jumped forward in time 20 years and was watching a physics course from the future. The emphasis on a return to face-to-face instruction is hard to figure out.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

And it’s all based on ideas from our Physics Project —and on a fundamental correspondence between what’s happening at the lowest level in all physical processes and in expression evaluation. But some of it has immediate practical implications, notably for parallel, distributed, nondeterministic and quantum-style computing.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

1 Mathematics and Physics Have the Same Foundations. 2 The Underlying Structure of Mathematics and Physics. 23 The Physicalized Laws of Mathematics. 29 Counting the Emes of Mathematics and Physics. 1 | Mathematics and Physics Have the Same Foundations. 3 The Metamodeling of Axiomatic Mathematics. Graphical Key.

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The Maker Mom

MARCH 18, 2023

were studying business, computer science, and healthcare. Tracking results becomes as easy as utilizing existing technology compared to the old-fashioned model of pen and paper and physical record keeping. Between 2008 and 2016, the percentage of students who attended strictly online undergraduate courses jumped from 3.8%

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STEM Education Guide

DECEMBER 19, 2022

They are either playing video games, watching TV, or using the computer. You also know that your kids need physical activity to stay healthy. You won’t need to win an argument when you sell the following outdoor activities to your little ones. It is also an exercise that helps develop your kids physically and mentally.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics 2. The Second Law of thermodynamics is considered one of the great general principles of physical science. Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. How Did We Get Here?

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Wisconsin Science and STEM Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Supports conclusions with logical arguments. Supports conclusions with logical arguments. See this year in assessment overview for a HS physical science class for some ideas on how that might work out. Demonstrates understanding of science concepts. Collects, interprets, and applies data. Grades 4-5 1. Grades 6-8 1.

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Futurum

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Dr Craig Nitschke of the University of Melbourne uses plant science and sophisticated computer modelling to study how the distribution of tree species in Australia could evolve as the climate changes. How can computer modelling help predict the future of forests? It was slow, but this has sped up with time.

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Vivify Stem

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs): This is what students should know and covers 4 content areas: Physical Science (PS) Life Science (LS) Earth and Space Science (ESS) Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science (ETS) Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs): These practices are how students will learn science and engineering.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Nowadays, it encompasses artificial intelligence (AI), the brain-computer interface, synthetic biology, and even social and ethical analysis. Pathway from school to biological engineering Jeffrey says that biological engineering entails a robust understanding in maths, physics, chemistry and biology.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

At a very practical level, for example, LLMs provide a new kind of linguistic interface to the computational capabilities that we’ve spent so long building in the Wolfram Language. But before we get into this, we need to discuss something that looms over any attempt to “solve science”: the phenomenon of computational irreducibility.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. Building on an earlier interest in space and spacecraft , I’d gotten very interested in physics, and was trying to read everything I could about it. There were several shelves of physics books at the local bookstore. How Did We Get Here?

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Jacobs Physics

JULY 4, 2022

If you, or anyone else, would like to stick around after school one day this week, I’d be happy to show you some advanced vector operations and how they apply to physics beyond this course. Martha looked up from her computer screen. She stood up to continue the argument, but there was Alex. Alex put on his biggest smile. “If

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

For this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we talked with Khan to hear more about his vision of AI tutors and the arguments from his recent book. And those have always been the kind of problems that computers have supported students fairly nimbly in solving.” What would you say to that argument?

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

One might have thought it was already exciting enough for our Physics Project to be showing a path to a fundamental theory of physics and a fundamental description of how our physical universe works. But there is something else too—and it’s from this that the full computational paradigm emerges.

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Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Think of it as the entangled limit of everything that is computationally possible: the result of following all possible computational rules in all possible ways. It’s yet another surprising construct that’s arisen from our Physics Project. In the language of our Physics Project, it’s the ultimate limit of all rulial multiway systems.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

And there was one way in which Ed and I were very much aligned: both of our lives were deeply influenced by computers and computing. Ed had started with computers in 1956—as part of one of the very first cohorts of programmers. My own career had begun in the 1970s with traditional fundamental physics.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

And all those years we’ve been continuing to build a taller and taller tower of capabilities, progressively expanding the scope of our vision and the breadth of our computational coverage of the world: Version 1.0 In the arc of intellectual history it defines a broad, new, computational paradigm for formalizing the world.

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Futurum

DECEMBER 21, 2022

TALK LIKE A… COMPUTER ENGINEER. HDDs store data using a mix of magnetic and mechanical parts, making them bulkier and susceptible to damage from vibrations and other physical disturbances like being dropped. Kim, an assistant professor at the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University in the US.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 28, 2023

We’ve worked very hard to make its design as clean and coherent as possible—and to make it a timeless way to elegantly represent computation and everything that can be described through it. Last Friday I fired up Version 1 on an old Mac SE/30 computer (with 2.5 Last Friday I fired up Version 1 on an old Mac SE/30 computer (with 2.5

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Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Introducing Astro Computation. Astronomy has been a driving force for computation for more than 2000 years (from the Antikythera device on)… and in Version 13.2 But what’s new now is astronomical computation fully integrated into the system. But what’s new now is astronomical computation fully integrated into the system.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 29, 2022

And through all those years we’ve energetically continued building further and further, adding ever more capabilities, and steadily extending the domain of the computational paradigm. This uses ordinary listability, effectively computing: &#10005. We released Version 13.0 on December 13, 2021. And in Version 13.1 In Version 13.1

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Computing Education Research Blog

AUGUST 16, 2021

The International Computing Education Research Conference (ICER) 2021 is this week ( website here ). Maryland doing amazing work around computation and relevant science learning. Could we use the collected use of the SCS1 to make some strong arguments for improving CS learning? how much do they like computing?

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

One might have thought it was already exciting enough for our Physics Project to be showing a path to a fundamental theory of physics and a fundamental description of how our physical universe works. But there is something else too—and it’s from this that the full computational paradigm emerges.

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Ellipsis Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This popular and professionally applicable language will help students advance in their computer science journeys. There is no implicit conversion between types like strings and integers - a string would be an invalid argument if passed to a mathematical function that expects a number.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 17, 2021

In preparation for a conference entitled “ Distributed Consensus with Cellular Automata & Related Systems ” that we’re organizing with NKN (= “New Kind of Network”) I decided to explore the problem of distributed consensus using methods from A New Kind of Science (yes, NKN “rhymes” with NKS) as well as from the Wolfram Physics Project.

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Futurum

MAY 10, 2023

Students who dream of studying glaciers,” says Lisa, “or exploring the deep sea or the moons of Saturn, might be discouraged with schools that don’t have instructors who can teach glacial geology, physical oceanography or planetary sciences.” These kinds of specialties are more common in schools that have a greater focus on research.

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