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

ED Surge

I was in the first year of the top doctorate program in my field, and we were 20 educators-in-training being taught best practices of various communication research methods by supposed leading experts. populations, including “tips” on how to work with diverse communities. Wait, what? Shouldn’t you know that?

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They Started Teaching During the Pandemic Year. Where Are They Now?

ED Surge

years of my career at Weehawken High School, where I taught Algebra I (students in grades seven to nine) and AP Calculus (grades 11-12). In the 2021-22 school year, I moved to an elementary school in Santa Rosa, California. I spent the first 3.5 For the past 1.5 What has been the most challenging and rewarding part of your job?

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Top Tech Tools for Equity and Accessibility

Cool Cat Teacher

And all of a sudden I'm taking Algebra 2, I'm taking Calculus. How about two way communication? So now here we are having a two way conversation with someone you wouldn't have been able to communicate with at all without these tools. I mean, that's what it feels like that we can truly communicate and break down these barriers.

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Can Kids Grow Up If They're Constantly Tracked and Monitored?

ED Surge

EdSurge connected with Heitner to talk about what she’s learned and what advice she gives educators at all levels, from elementary school through college. History and not be getting your calculus grade right now. Mentoring is actually teaching our kids how to communicate. We need to mentor kids more on communication.

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ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!

Stephen Wolfram

And in the end, as we’ll discuss later, that’s a more flexible and powerful way to communicate. And writing this prompt is a strange activity—perhaps our first serious experience of trying to “ communicate with an alien intelligence ”. But ChatGPT has by this point learned a certain amount about writing Wolfram Language itself.

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LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

Line, Surface and Contour Integration “Find the integral of the function ” is a typical core thing one wants to do in calculus. But particularly in applications of calculus, it’s common to want to ask slightly more elaborate questions, like “What’s the integral of over the region ?”, or “What’s the integral of along the line ?”

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Career Exploration: Mathematics

PCS Edventures

Calculus , which calculates rates of change and infinites. Cryptographers combine cryptography, the science of designing algorithms for secret communication , and cryptanalysis, the study of breaking those designs. Energy analysts focus on analyzing the data returned to them to communicate trends, costs and recommendations.