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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

ED Surge

Our primary guide for observing these learning environments was a book by Vanderbilt University Professor Rich Milner called Start Where You Are, But Don’t Stay There , which offers a framework of opportunity-centered teaching. We often neglect to discuss the real impacts of diverse life experiences and circumstances.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

ED Surge

Each of them has already earned at least 45 college credits—equal to about three semesters—and desires to complete a degree. As for primary sources, the professor suggests looking for a map, or a ship’s record, or a diary entry. That is the construction of many, many hands over time,” he says. He pauses to think.

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

Futurum

Whenever anyone wants to build anything, they must submit an environmental impact statement to show how the environmental impacts of the construction will be minimised. The application has since been taken up by lots of agencies, including the Council for Environmental Equality at the White House.

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

Stephen Wolfram

It began partly as an empirical law, and partly as something abstractly constructed on the basis of the idea of molecules, that nobody at the time knew for sure existed. But what’s important for our purposes here is that in the setup Carnot constructed he basically ended up introducing the Second Law.

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