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Breaking Down Barriers: How to Make Math Accessible for All Students

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Dr. Lydia Gonzalez, author of “Bad at Math: Dismantling Harmful Beliefs That Hinder Equitable Mathematics Education,” talks about the societal norms that make it acceptable to be “bad at math” and how these beliefs can be detrimental to learning.

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Plugging in: directly linking the brain to a computer

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Plugging in: directly linking the brain to a computer. Published: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) link the brain directly to external computers, allowing users to do something just by thinking it. TALK LIKE A … COMPUTER SCIENTIST. Brains and computers share lots of similarities. How do BCIs work?

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Instructors Rush to Do ‘Assignment Makeovers’ to Respond to ChatGPT

ED Surge

The race to outsmart artificial intelligence is on as educators try to prevent the coming semester from devolving into, as one professor put it, a “ homework apocalypse.” The assignment he revised was from a course he taught in 2012 about the history of mathematics and cryptography that fulfilled a campus writing requirement.

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Student-Centered Computing: Teaching Computer Science Using Culturally Authentic Practices

National Science Foundation

Though women were once at the forefront of developing the disciplines of computer programming and software engineering (Berkeley School of Information, 2021), the computer science (CS) workforce in the US for the past three decades has become a field of mostly White and Asian men.

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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

ED Surge

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. It features a talking digital avatar that helps teachers unpack common misconceptions that their students carry in mathematics. “If There’s no judgment here.

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How machine learning is revolutionising materials science

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A part of artificial intelligence, ML looks for patterns in existing datasets and uses the patterns it finds to make its own decisions or predictions. A digital abundance All areas of science have benefited from the rise of computation and the internet. “We The majority of this computing power comes from open-source software.

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Are you ready for the robot revolution?

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Published: Transportation is about to go electric and drive itself, meaning every car technician will need to understand how artificial intelligence works. For example, NASA’s programme of space exploration has contributed to a wide range of computing, imaging and material technologies.