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This Student Saw Teachers Lacked a Place to Share Digital Resources. So He Created One.

ED Surge

Schools have picked up all these new tech tools but it’s not always clear how teachers should actually use them. Bir, who’s now a freshman studying computer science at Diablo Valley College in California, could relate. “As A New Digital Guide? Bir says the site has about 10,000 users.

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Helping Students Think With Their Whole Bodies

ED Surge

When people think about thinking, they typically conceive of the brain as a kind of machine or muscle that is strictly confined to our skulls. And that sparked her interest in digging into learning science research that she’s gathered into a recent book, “ The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain.”

Physics 227
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A Nonprofit Spent Five Years Counting a Million Credentials. What Does It All Add Up To?

ED Surge

For example, a leader from the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development explained during the webinar how her state is creating a digital search tool that lets people select among all the credential options available to them, sorting by occupation, program location and graduate outcomes. to celebrate its anniversary.

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How philosophers have influenced the way you think about race

Futurum

TALK LIKE A HISTORIAN AND PHILOSOPHER OF SCIENCE Biological racism — prejudice against people based on the mistaken belief that ‘race’ is a part of a person’s biology and indicates race-specific traits like intelligence or work ethic Heredity — genetically passing on characteristics from biological parent to child.

Biology 98
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Awesome SCIENCE Toys to Gift

Chillax Science

Or perhaps, you are just looking for new ideas on what to buy or even gift your own children. Or perhaps, you are just looking for new ideas on what to buy or even gift your own children. So in this blog post, I am sharing with you six of my favorite science toys that won’t break the bank and will make your kid the super star.

Science 59
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IF/THEN Collection and Ambassadors showcase diversity in STEM

STEMx

American Association for the Advancement of Science. Collection, which calls itself the largest free resource of its kind dedicated to increasing access to authentic and relatable images of real women in STEM while also offering high-quality STEM educational content. Association of Science and Technology Centers. initiative.

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Building a specifications grading course, part 2

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

It's complicated, because there are really three categories of learning outcomes that I'd like to see. The first category is basic skills. You can see that new versions of a problem are very similar to older versions, with the details changed. Today, we get into the weeds.