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Evidence Is Mounting That Calculus Should Be Changed. Will Instructors Heed It?

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Calculus is a critical on-ramp to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Good news: There's mounting evidence that changing calculus instruction works for the groups usually pushed out of STEM. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

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UCLA Life Sciences Revamped How It Teaches Math. Is It an Example Others Should Follow?

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About 10 years ago, Alan Garfinkel, a professor in the life sciences department at the University of California, Los Angeles, got a call. It was from his dean, who said that the department had inspected their freshman calculus course, “Calculus for Life Sciences.”

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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New Effort Hopes to Make ‘Weed-Out’ Courses More Equitable

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Research out this year from consulting firm Tyton Partners, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Every Learner Everywhere found that professors lately are reporting an increase in the DFWI rate—that is, the percent of students in a course who receive a D grade, fail, withdraw or don’t complete the class. history surveys.

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Edit and Share Videos Like a Rock Star

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Free Video Lectures — academic lectures on lots of topics including biology, biotechnology, and calculus. Untamed Science – -science videos on biology, physics, animals, and more. FedFlix – -the best movies of the US Government from training films to history, all available for reuse without any restrictions.

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Generative AI, Chat GPT, and Learning

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I have observed that many professors and teachers often ask students to summarize articles in their own words, I believe this practice will not be as effective in measuring understanding and reading comprehension with these summarization tools that are about to be built into everything. will be the web in us — the biological web.

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Dear Educators, a Balm for Deep Cuts: Navigating Racial Microaggressions at School

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Often characterized today as “death by a thousand cuts,” the concept was first described in the late 1960s by professor of psychiatry and education Chester Pierce. When Whitney Aragaki, a high school biology and environmental science teacher in Hawaii, hears “What kind of Asian are you?”, she immediately challenges the frame. “I

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