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What is the 21st Century Lesson Plan?

Ask a Tech Teacher

You aren’t the only one to come up with these varied approaches–students know what works best for their learning and present it to you as an option. The textbook is a resource , supplemented by a panoply of books, primary documents, online sites, experts, Skype chats, and anything else that supports the topic.

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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

Futurum

SCALE MODELS AND COMPUTER MODELS. While very useful, these experiments can be expensive and time-consuming; therefore, simplified computer simulations can provide an efficient alternative to quantifying interactions. A close-up of THOR, a computer used primarily for machine learning tasks. A BONUS PROJECT AIM. Pinterest.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

Developing new kinds of computational diagrams. In the end—with a few trips in the middle, notably to see a total solar eclipse —it took me a couple of months to get my remote-CEO setup figured out (with a swank computer-connected fax machine, email getting autodelivered every 15 minutes, etc.). Figuring out more and more science.

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