CoderZ

MARCH 20, 2024

In order to support a diverse educational community, it’s crucial that schools find ways to foster inclusivity across the curriculum. Diversity and inclusion are particularly important in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) disciplines, where minority groups are systemically underrepresented.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2023

But even as gamification has become a shorthand for engagement, edtech companies have found it challenging to draw a clear distinction between learning and just having fun. Almost a decade into experiments with gamification, edtech companies are changing the way they approach motivation. Quizizz is embodying this shift.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

As I was writing this piece, I decided to look up more about Roland Silver—who I found out had been a college roommate of Marvin Minsky’s at Harvard, and had had a long career in math, etc. He was convinced you could not do [math] by typing it. at MITRE (the holding company for Lincoln Lab). Now, we had one bad idea in there, OK.

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