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Are We Teaching Enough Civics in Schools?

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Read on… For more websites that teach civics for MS and HS, check out these: Argument Wars. Public Policy and the Executive and Legislative Branches Quiz. Public Policy Flashcards. Public Policy Matching. Primary Source Documents. Civics games. How Laws are Made. Three Branches of Government Review.

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How to Help Students Avoid Getting Duped Online — and by AI Chatbots

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But it’s not because students aren’t good at critical thinking, argues Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. Mike Caulfield: One of the primary things you're doing when you're reading on the internet is you're trying to decide if something's worth your attention or not.

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Plant polymers as plastic alternatives

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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. This paves the way for its use among the general public in the near future. This goes hand in hand with ethical thinking.

Biology 84
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Grand questions about grand challenges

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

What about the fact that casual publication doesn't count for much professionally? A: As a cisgendered middle-age white American tenured full professor, I am just about the least-ever qualified person to answer this. Then stop doing that , and write a blog post instead with the time that's freed up. (

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Can a Critic of Edtech Change a Controversial Homework-Help Site From the Inside?

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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. What do you say to that concern?

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Support English Learners with Micro-credentials from Digital Promise

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Four primary characteristics of micro-credentials are: competency-based. public schools are English Language Learners (ELLs). Supporting Student Argumentation – Understanding Structure and Language of Argumentation. Supporting Student Argumentation – Helping Students Evaluate Evidence in Arguments.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

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