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Tech Teacher Appreciation Week May 6-10, 2024

Ask a Tech Teacher

They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus. There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics.

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Grades 7-10: Register by Mar. 5 for MIT SPARK (Mar. 16-17)

Newton STEM

The registration lottery is open now through 11:59PM on March 5 , and until that deadline all course preferences will be treated equally in the lottery. After that, any remaining seats will be open first-come/first-served. Students may choose from about 100 courses and must register on their own.

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Register by June 27 for MIT’s Virtual HSSP — Sundays in Summer for Grades 7-12+

Newton STEM

Registration is now open until June 27 on a lottery basis, with equal consideration given to all applicants registering by that deadline. MIT’s Summer HSSP is a weekend academic program ( July 9-August 13 ) for students entering Grades 7-12 (plus those who just graduated high school). For more information, email summer-hssp@mit.edu.

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There is transfer between programming and other subjects: Skills overlap, but it may not be causal

Computing Education Research Blog

planning): Despite the increasing attention computer programming has received recently (Grover & Pea, 2013), programming skills do not transfer equally to different skills—a finding that Sala and Gobet (2017a) supported in other domains.

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Contending with the Unintended Consequences of History: Revisiting Brown v. Board of Education and the Need for Systemic Change in K-12 Education

National Science Foundation

Figure 1 illustrates the differences in access to STEM courses between schools with low enrollments of Black and Hispanic students versus those with high enrollments, with the most notable gaps existing in advanced mathematics, calculus, and computer science.

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Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT

Stephen Wolfram

It’s equally, if not more, important for human-like AIs as well—immediately giving them what we can think of as computational knowledge superpowers, that leverage the non-human-like power of structured computation and structured knowledge. It’s a tremendously powerful way of working.

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

Stephen Wolfram

He’s writing a paper, he says, basically to clarify the Second Law, (or, as he calls it, “the second fundamental theorem”—rather confidently asserting that he will “prove this theorem”): Part of the issue he’s trying to address is how the calculus is done: The partial derivative symbol ∂ had been introduced in the late 1700s.

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