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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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Educators Team Up to Respond to Sudden Rise of ChatGPT

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In the past few weeks, education groups, schools and colleges have teamed up to offer resources for educators and draft policy papers in response to the sudden rise of so-called generative AI tools, chatbots that can compose answers to questions that sound like they are written by a human.

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Is There Still Time to Build Equity into Virtual Reality Edtech?

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For example, at Columbia University, professors are creating and using virtual reality tools to help students gain empathy across racial lines, learn dentistry techniques and examine molecules in 3D. Virtual reality could also create new career opportunities for students. “The A Digital Divide — Or Bridge?

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Classroom resources for the new school year

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Classroom resources for the new school year Tweet Share 0 Skype Reddit +1 Pinterest 0 LinkedIn 0 Email Are you looking for free and engaging educational resources to use in your classroom? As students and teachers head back to school, why not use our free educational resources in your lessons? Look no further!

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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

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We explored how people use associations with colours and line properties to communicate emotions,” says Dr Dirk Bernhardt-Walther, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychology. “In For the line drawings, we traced the contours with custom-made computer vision algorithms,” says Dirk. “We

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10 Great Virtual Reality Apps

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HowStuffWorks defines it this way: using computer technology to create a simulated, three-dimensional world that a user can manipulate and explore while feeling as if he were in that world. . Marxent explains it simply as: the use of computer technology to create a simulated environment.

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Cyber security for the AI age

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Burcu studies cyber security, but not in the way that involves delving deep into computer code. I am interested in human-computer interaction and interface design,” she says. Many organisations buy software from suppliers, which is then downloaded onto company computers.