Futurum

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Professor Jeffrey Catchmark and his team at Pennsylvania State University in the US believe they have one such solution, using common plant-based materials to create sustainable food packaging. We learned something new from each company, and each product application posed a new challenge,” Jeffrey says.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 29, 2022

The TEA consists of STEM faculty from a group of California universities, all committed to a year-long process of redesigning their courses around mastery learning and alternative grading systems. Challenge 2: Make active learning the default. The three Grand Challenges are: Challenge 1: Normalize alternative grading.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 18, 2015

emphasize in their respective accounts; Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources (9-10 grade Reading Standards–History–2). . It starts with a change in mindset: You aren’t teaching a tech tool, you’re teaching its application to learning.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But in 1834, Émile Clapeyron (1799–1864)—a rather distinguished French engineering professor (and steam engine designer)—wrote a paper entitled “ Memoir on the Motive Power of Heat ”. His book is mostly words, with just a few formulas related to the behavior of ideal gases, and some tables of actual parameters for particular materials.

Energy 88

Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Futurum

MAY 10, 2023

Practical activities to help geoscience students develop the skills they need to succeed Published: Traditional teaching methods that focus on the memorization and regurgitation of facts rarely lead to genuine learning. The GeoPaths project at Plymouth State University in the US uses practical teaching methods to help its students learn.

Geology 52

Geology Critical Thinking Research Research 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Personalized learning is the latest buzzword in an education environment bursting with new ideas but this one is impressive. In a sentence, personalized learning: “tailors instruction, expression of learning, and assessment to each student’s unique needs and preferences.” Why switch to personalized learning?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Sean Michael Morris knows that he has cultivated a certain “ethos” over his career in higher education—as a self-described critic of edtech and a champion of helping professors improve their teaching. Much of his job duties involve cultivating a community of professors engaged with the company.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

It has become increasingly possible to personalize learning–adapt resources and assessments to student skills and needs and differentiate lessons that are pushed out to individual students or small groups ( read: Shifting my Teacher Mindset with Micro-credentials ). What are Micro-credentials? personalized. Who is Digital Promise?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 2, 2020

However, the substantiation of the research arguments has to get carried out without taking the aid of references frequently. References can get added after the primary draft of the paper has been prepared. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Elaborate reading of reference books is a good idea.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

He used to like to tell people I’d learned a lot from him. It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). And in fact I think it was only in writing this piece that I even learned he’d grown up in Los Angeles (specifically, East Hollywood).

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