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Plugging in: directly linking the brain to a computer

Futurum

Plugging in: directly linking the brain to a computer. Published: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) link the brain directly to external computers, allowing users to do something just by thinking it. In recent years, BCIs have moved from science fiction to something that could have real potential. How do BCIs work?

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Media Computation today: Runestone, Snap!, Python 3, and a Teaspoon Language

Computing Education Research Blog

I don’t get to teach Media Computation 1 since I moved to the University of Michigan, so I haven’t done as much development on the curriculum and infrastructure as I might like if I were teaching it today. But using Jython for Media Computation is so 2002. Where is Media Computation going today? Con keynote talk.

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8 Ways to Teach Financial Literacy

Cool Cat Teacher

Startup to IPO – Students help take a company from startup to Initial Public Offering (IPO) as students take the role of a consultant. In our student’s future, “big data” means “big opportunities.” Data Science Foundations teaches: Real World – Students learn about the real-world problems a data scientist would solve.

Teaching 238
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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

ED Surge

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. This is why the computational power we have now is exciting. She’s taught fifth grade for 25 years in the Aurora Public School system in Colorado.

Research 363
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Instructors Rush to Do ‘Assignment Makeovers’ to Respond to ChatGPT

ED Surge

For the assignment, he asked students to write about the origin and impact of a code or cipher system of their choice, to form their answer as a blog post for the academic blog Wonders & Marvels , and to submit it to the blog for possible publication.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

Differential treatment is an example of how economic theories can shape public policies and individual’s opportunities. Regardless of whether differential treatment is considered fair, the efficiency rationale gives researchers and policymakers another way to look at how and why public policies should consider socio-economic factors.

Economics 111
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How can we make future places healthier spaces?

Futurum

This project is investigating how computing, the internet of things and data science can generate information that people can use to make their future places healthier. DATA SCIENCE – encompasses preparing data for analysis, including cleansing, aggregating and manipulating the data to perform advanced data analysis.

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