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iCivics Offers Tons of Free Resources and Tools to Promote Civics Education

Educators Technology

Examples of featured curriculum units include: Foundations of Government, Legal Reference Library, Road to the Constitution, Influence Library, Civil Rights, Citizenship and Participation, News Literacy, International Affairs, Government and the Market, Geography Library, Persuasive Writing, and many more. These include: 1.

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Should you Teach Typing? And Does it Work?

Ask a Tech Teacher

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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The Latest from Our R&D Pipeline: Version 13.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

Relativity also isn’t important in geography, but it is in astronomy. For example, you might have a function with several arguments that are each large expressions. And when you’re looking at one of the arguments it may not be obvious what the overall function is. But astro is substantially more complicated. In Version 13.2