Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

These same reports show that teachers and students stand to gain these additional benefits: Learners get a chance to apply mathematical solutions to everyday problems Teachers can stimulate real-life situations where regular people and professionals use math formulas to solve problems. public schools provide students with computers.

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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

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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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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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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Futurum

JUNE 29, 2023

Dental discoveries: How is dental research improving oral health? Dental scientists at the Iowa Institute of Oral Health Research at the University of Iowa , USA, are studying various aspects of oral health and healthcare, to improve dental practices and keep our teeth and mouths healthy. How do bacteria cause periodontitis?

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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 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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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

To investigate these questions, a team of researchers from across the world combined their skills and expertise to perform some intriguing experiments. “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.”

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Futurum

APRIL 18, 2023

How machine learning is revolutionising materials science Published: Research in materials science and engineering is crucial for developing materials that can help solve some of society’s biggest challenges. A digital abundance All areas of science have benefited from the rise of computation and the internet. “We

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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

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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Futurum

AUGUST 29, 2023

At Futurum, we work with researchers and academics from all disciplines to create classroom resources for schools. Each article explains the researcher’s work in a clear and engaging way and provides advice for students interested in pursuing a career in the field. Look no further! Can your students solve the Tower of Hanoi?

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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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Futurum

AUGUST 26, 2022

At Futurum, we work with researchers and academics from all disciplines to create classroom resources for schools. Each article explains the researcher’s work in a clear and engaging way and provides advice for students interested in pursuing a career in the field. Look no further! Can your students solve the Tower of Hanoi?

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Schooling Mathematics Geography Chemistry 88

Futurum

AUGUST 2, 2022

The findings will help advance the research frontier of audio and video streaming data security. TALK LIKE AN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEER. INTERNET OF THINGS – a system of interconnected computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people. PREVALENCE OF DEEPFAKES.

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STEM Next

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Toys and games in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are marketed to boys. You will learn about the latest research, resources, and new toys to support STEM play with young girls (and all young children). Close the gender gap in computer science. Inspire a love of reading and STEM.

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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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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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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 14, 2021

Virtual schooling is clearly not an effective solution, according to a study done by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), which looked at schools specifically designed to teach coursework online with significant budgets invested in research and planning. “If Well, don’t let that deter you.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Emma Dodoo is an Engineering Education Research PhD student working with me and co-advised with Lisa Lattuca. The University of Michigan Marsal Family School of Education has a collaboration with the School at Marygrove in the Detroit Public Schools – Community District. It wasn’t until much later that we saw this news item.

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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

JULY 22, 2022

It is often said that we learn by doing, and a recent study by researchers at the University of Chicago has shown that students do indeed gain a deeper understanding of scientific concepts when they experience them in active tasks rather than just reading about them. Can they create a computer model to show how a river will erode its channel?

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PCS Edventures

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When engaged with GIS technology, learners explore mathematical concepts through spatial analysis and map projection. These patterns provide insights essential to scientific research. Public Health Analysts: GIS helps track disease outbreaks, and the data is used to plan interventions to prevent and control the spread of diseases.

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Futurum

APRIL 27, 2023

In phishing attacks, attackers may gain the victim’s trust by impersonating friends, co-workers, authorities or official sites,” explains Dr Gang Wang, a computer scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. How do computers protect us from phishing and deepfakes? You have won our top prize!’

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Futurum

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Published: We know that black holes exist through a mix of complex mathematics and astrophysics but linking mathematical ideas to what we can observe in the Universe is no easy task. While there are elegant mathematics pointing towards certain conditions, these properties cannot be physically observed.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Dr Narges Armanfard from McGill University and Mila Quebec AI Institute in Montreal, Canada, has set up iSMART Lab to develop intelligent computer systems that can support medical professionals. Patient well-being Intelligent systems are innovative computer systems that can perceive and respond to the world around them.

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Futurum

MARCH 16, 2023

Their interactions with autonomous systems – whether as drivers, technicians, researchers or consumers – will define an industry.” For example, NASA’s programme of space exploration has contributed to a wide range of computing, imaging and material technologies.

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Futurum

MAY 25, 2023

Tweet Share 0 Skype Reddit +1 Pinterest 0 LinkedIn 0 Email We work with so many inspiring people who are conducting interesting research projects and making exciting new discoveries. Some of the best researchers struggled academically at school and university. This public policy changed my life,” he says.

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Stephen Wolfram

APRIL 6, 2022

Just a couple of weeks ago I published a 250-page treatise about its application to the “physicalization of metamathematics”—and to providing a very new view of the foundations of mathematics (with implications both for the question of what mathematics really is, and for the practical long-term future of mathematics).

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Futurum

JANUARY 24, 2023

Published: At Point Park University in Pittsburgh in the US, education researchers Dr Ginny Chambers , Dr Kamryn York and Dr Mark Marnich are helping pre-service teachers develop their skills in STEM subjects to make learning more enjoyable and effective for their future students. How can we make STEM subjects more engaging for students?

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National Science Foundation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

However, at the same time, research shows that adults (i.e., In this blog, we will share research-to-practice insight into developing engineering experiences for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and strategies to engage them in engineering that build on their assets and evaluate their engagement. 2020; Ehsan et al.,

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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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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This is the first of a series of pieces I’m planning in connection with the upcoming 20th anniversary of the publication of A New Kind of Science. And at first I did so in the main scientific paradigm I knew : models based on mathematics and mathematical equations. From mathematics. Mathematical physics.

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Futurum

AUGUST 16, 2022

At the University of East Anglia in the UK, Dr Oli Buckley’s research project is combining computer science and social science to answer these questions. TALK LIKE A COMPUTER SCIENTIST. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence.

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