ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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Computing Education Research Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

My activities in computing education these days are organized around two main projects: Defining computing education for undergraduates in the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and Arts (see earlier blog post referencing this effort ); Participatory design of Teaspoon languages (mentioned most recently in this blog post ).

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

To everyone else, though, those and many other scholarly publications are locked, or can only be read by paying hefty per-article fees. The typical open access model makes scholarly articles free to the public by charging authors a processing fee to have their work published in the journal. Now it's life of the author plus 70 years.

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Futurum

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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. TALK LIKE A … COMPUTER SCIENTIST. Brains and computers share lots of similarities. How do BCIs work?

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 14, 2022

SpringerOpen SpringerOpen features research a wide variety of peer-reviewed research articles spanning different disciplines including social sciences, humanities, science, technology, medicine, economics, biomedicine, chemistry, computer science, psychology, and many more. You can browse its journals by subject or by alphabetical order.

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National Science Foundation

JULY 5, 2022

Though women were once at the forefront of developing the disciplines of computer programming and software engineering (Berkeley School of Information, 2021), the computer science (CS) workforce in the US for the past three decades has become a field of mostly White and Asian men.

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STEM Education Shopping

MAY 10, 2023

Are you curious about the Cue Robot Workshop ( 1 ) and whether ‘is Cue robot workshop open to public’? KEY TAKEAWAY Is Cue robot workshop open to public? Cue Robot is now available to the general public, but it is primarily designed for use in schools and institutions. And it’s available to the general public!

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Cool Cat Teacher

OCTOBER 1, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Dr. Lydia Gonzalez, author of “Bad at Math: Dismantling Harmful Beliefs That Hinder Equitable Mathematics Education,” talks about the societal norms that make it acceptable to be “bad at math” and how these beliefs can be detrimental to learning.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JULY 7, 2023

My main activity for the last year has been building two new courses for our new Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences (PCAS), which I’ve blogged about recently here (with video of a talk about PCAS) and here where I described our launch. The ACM/IEEE Computing Curriculum volumes weren’t going to be much help.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JULY 12, 2021

The Danish Informatics curriculum is unique for its focus on four competence areas: Digital empowerment which describes the ability to review and critique digital artifacts to ask where the strict demands of a computational system may not serve well the messy world in which humans live. programming languages) and infrastructures (e.g.,

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CompuGirls was founded in 2006 by Dr. Kim Scott and introduces adolescent girls to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through culturally responsive practices and social justice. This year, I spent most of my time in a public-facing role representing Hawai?i Though Hawai? i in the last two years.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 23, 2023

Thanks to some heroic software engineering by our team and by OpenAI , ChatGPT can now call on Wolfram|Alpha—and Wolfram Language as well—to give it what we might think of as “computational superpowers”. But when it’s connected to the Wolfram plugin it can do these things. And here’s a bonus: immediate visualization: How did this work?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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. It features a talking digital avatar that helps teachers unpack common misconceptions that their students carry in mathematics. “If There’s no judgment here.

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The Maker Mom

MAY 28, 2024

These immersive programs allow kids to delve into fascinating food science, toxicology, computer programming, color theory, cybersecurity, and microbiology classes. Science-related internships include molecular imaging, research on heart development, decibel health impacts, and public health education.

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ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

The assignment he revised was from a course he taught in 2012 about the history of mathematics and cryptography that fulfilled a campus writing requirement. The Challenge of Teaching Coding Perhaps the most challenging assignment makeovers will come in courses on computer coding.

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STEM Sport

MAY 9, 2024

There is a constant, necessary push to ensure the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) workforce has diverse representation across gender, socioeconomic status, and race. This diversity in the workforce is what allows this workforce to continue thinking innovatively and in the best interest of the public as a whole.

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PCS Edventures

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When engaged with GIS technology, learners explore mathematical concepts through spatial analysis and map projection. Public Health Analysts: GIS helps track disease outbreaks, and the data is used to plan interventions to prevent and control the spread of diseases. Watch our Discover Drones Webinar!

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Civil Engineering Transportation STEM Mathematics 59

STEMx

JULY 26, 2018

How did Arkansas become a national leader in promoting and implementing a K-12 computer science curriculum? I also serve as a board member for the National Computer Science Teachers Association, and as a member of the Southern Regional Education Board’s Commission on Computer Science, Information Technology and Related Career Fields.

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STEM Education Guide

JANUARY 29, 2023

Now that we know why February is Black History Month let’s check out this list of impressive examples of what Black genius can accomplish in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). In 1962, Johnson manually confirmed complex orbital equations that had been created and implemented by a worldwide network of computers.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

“For the line drawings, we traced the contours with custom-made computer vision algorithms,” says Dirk. “We We wanted to see whether there were enough consistent features in each category for the computer to be able to accurately categorise any one image.” If the computer had only guessed randomly, it would have had an accuracy of 17%.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 16, 2022

My original goal in A New Kind of Science was to take a step beyond the mathematical paradigm that had defined the state of the art in science for three centuries—and to introduce a new paradigm based on computation and on the exploration of the computational universe of possible programs. But there’s more.

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

As a public school kindergarten teacher in Oakland, California, I have seen these challenges widen the gap between teachers and families, especially over the past three years. Across the country, we’ve seen conversations about education become charged. Books are getting banned from classrooms and libraries. I’ve seen this in my own classroom.

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Schooling Mathematics Publication Personalized Learning 165

National Science Foundation

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The biases are notably stark if schools are divided out by minority enrollment, as public middle and high schools with more than 50 percent White students have only 2 percent of mathematics teachers and 1 percent of science teachers that are Black ( National Center for Science & Engineering Statistics ). In comparison to the U.S.

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Futurum

AUGUST 29, 2023

Tweet Share 0 Skype Reddit +1 Pinterest 0 LinkedIn 0 Email Maths Applied Mathematics – Maths is all around us, from weather forecasting, engineering and finance, to modelling the spread of diseases. Professor Dan Romik is uncovering the mathematical surprises hidden in this brain teaser. Can your students solve the Tower of Hanoi?

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

And all those years we’ve been continuing to build a taller and taller tower of capabilities, progressively expanding the scope of our vision and the breadth of our computational coverage of the world: Version 1.0 In the arc of intellectual history it defines a broad, new, computational paradigm for formalizing the world.

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STEM Sport

JUNE 27, 2023

A STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) career is any job that uses skills in these related fields daily. Analytical Chemist The Role: Analytical Chemists use their knowledge of chemistry, instrumentation, computers, and statistics to solve problems in almost all areas of chemistry. What Are STEM Careers?

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Computing Education Research Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Last year, Tammy Shreiner and I received NSF funding to develop and evaluate computational supports for helping social studies teachers to teach data literacy and computing(see post here ). We have a chapter in the new book by Aman Yadav and Ulf Dalvad Berthelsen Computational Thinking in Education: A Pedagogical Perspective.

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STEM Sport

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning is a core part of a student’s education. Below are ideas for how to engage in technology community service: Refurbish Old Computers: Get students engaged by refurbishing old computers for low-income schools and community centers.

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Futurum

APRIL 18, 2023

A digital abundance All areas of science have benefited from the rise of computation and the internet. “We The majority of this computing power comes from open-source software. Computer vision Much of MS&E characterisation data is in the form of images. “In

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STEM Next

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Toys and games in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are marketed to boys. Close the gender gap in computer science. You don’t have to spend a lot to inspire a future computer scientist who makes breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence or designs Apps for social good. Inspire a love of reading and STEM.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

See also: “Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT” » It’s Just Adding One Word at a Time That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected. But how does it do it? And why does it work?

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Computing Education Research Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

The University of Michigan Marsal Family School of Education has a collaboration with the School at Marygrove in the Detroit Public Schools – Community District. They were pretty worried about the mathematics required for the project, especially after the students had spent all of 10th grade on-line during the pandemic.

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Futurum

AUGUST 26, 2022

Networks – Any network, from the neurons and synapses forming our brain to our social interactions with friends, can be modelled mathematically. Discrete mathematics – Despite being a relatively simple puzzle that is commonly found in children’s toy shops, the Tower of Hanoi demonstrates some complex mathematical theories.

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Futurum

JULY 22, 2022

Mathematics teachers teach mathematics in classrooms, chemistry teachers teach chemistry in labs, and PE teachers teach sports on the playing field. The ability to write computer code is essential in almost all fields of science these days. Can they create a computer model to show how a river will erode its channel?

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STEM Sport

APRIL 4, 2023

Average Annual Salary: $67,451 Link to Current Job Opening: Midnight Society Gameplay Designer (Remote) Architect Description: Architects create the blueprint designs for commercial buildings, homes, and public art pieces. Civil engineers need to be attentive to detail, creative, and skilled in mathematics.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. But it wasn’t long before I started hearing mentions that somewhere at the school there was a computer. I’d seen a computer in real life only once—when I was 10 years old, and from a distance. How Did We Get Here?

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