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Differentiating with Personalized Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

Some schools realize students aren’t learning to their full potential. They feel it is unrelated to what happens to them outside of school. Personalized learning must start with flexible learning spaces. Here are suggestions by primary school teacher Chris Andrews (with a picture of a personalized learning classroom ).

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Who Cares About Saving Public Schools? @BetsyDeVos as #TrumpEducation Secretary

The Innovative Educator

Trump has named Betsy DeVos ed secretary and now some public school teacher groups say they’re appalled. It wasn’t in place when I started school. When I went to school, there were lots of electives, and no testing pressures. This has been widely covered in the press so right at the start, the argument fizzles out.

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Connecting STEAM Education and Computer Science

Ellipsis Education

This study evaluated the three elements of scientific creativity: fluency, flexibility, and originality. It was found that STEAM-based courses significantly improved students’ fluency and flexibility. Primary Elementary. Middle School. Tran et al, 2021). Students create scenes of a play.

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Plant polymers as plastic alternatives

Futurum

With these lessons learnt, the team is now setting up a company which will have the resources and flexibility to work with other companies on short timescales. 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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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But he had a second hypothesis too—based, he said, on the ideas of “that most ingenious gentleman, Monsieur Descartes”: that instead air consists of “flexible particles” that are “so whirled around” that “each corpuscle endeavors to beat off all others”.

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

In a somewhat different direction, we’ve expanded our Wolfram Summer School to add a Wolfram Winter School , and we’ve greatly expanded our our Wolfram High School Summer Research Program , adding year-round programs , middle-school programs , etc.—including And then there’s livestreaming. is PositionSmallest.

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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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