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Students Are Busy but Rarely Thinking, Researcher Argues. Do His Teaching Strategies Work Better?

ED Surge

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. He’s outlined the strategies in his book, “ Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics. ” How did that go? Can we get more students thinking?

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PCAS Expansion, Growth, Research, and SIGCSE 2024 Presentations

Computing Education Research Blog

Research in PCAS We’re starting to publish some of what we’re learning from PCAS. Thursday just after lunch, Neil Brown and I are presenting our paper, Confidence vs Insight: Big and Rich Data in Computing Education Research 13:45 – 14:10 at Meeting Room D135. What was their school like?) There are also costumes.)

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Support English Learners with Micro-credentials from Digital Promise

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Digital devices, be they iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, Macs, or PCs, give students access to endless amounts of web-based resources for research, inquiry, collaboration, sharing, and more. Schools are no longer reliant on years-old (or decades-old) textbooks written for the average student, whoever that is. is supported by research.

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What Preservice Teachers and Teacher Educators Can Learn from Trajectories

National Science Foundation

Few would discount the power and promise of diversifying the teaching force, especially in STEM fields; however, our research offers the field of STEM education new insight into the conversation. Board of Education decision in the pushout of Black teachers in integrated schools. The Diversity Imperative.

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

ED Surge

The year was 2010, and Michael Gibson found himself on the first day of a research job at a hedge fund run by the controversial billionaire Peter Thiel. It’s a cause that Thiel has long championed, and a friend there tipped Gibson off that the libertarian billionaire was looking for a researcher at his fund. in it at Oxford University.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

The first student has an extremely high grade point average (GPA) from their school exams, while the second student’s GPA is still good, but not as high. They grew up in an affluent neighbourhood with wealthy parents who could afford to send them to a top-class school and pay for one-to-one tutoring to help them prepare for their exams.

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How to Compare and Contrast Authentically

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It also appears multiple times for most grade levels in the Math Standards, including the Standards for Mathematical Practice. They forget–or don’t realize that the critical thinking and problem solving skills they learn in school and life can be applied everywhere. Why is this skill so important?