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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

ED Surge

Brain science research is increasingly bolstering the idea that math instruction rooted in culturally relevant problem-solving helps students draw from their lived experiences and activates distinct areas of the brain, producing durable and deep learning.

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7 Authentic Assessment Tools

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that students have connected lessons to other learning and applied it to their lives. that students take responsibility for their learning by embracing deep learning. that students think creatively with their new information. that lessons are scalable and dependent upon each child’s learning style.

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Strategies to Adjust ‘Up’ What Students Know

Middle Web

Emily Mofield offers a practical, realistic and highly readable set of 25 different approaches to teaching in her Vertical Differentiation for Gifted, Advanced and High-Potential Students, a book that almost any classroom teacher would find highly useful, writes Leslie Wise.

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The 8 Elements of Critical Thinking

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Critical thinking and creativity depend on the three more advanced parts of cognitive complexity: analyzing, evaluating, and creating" (p. Critical questions are precursors of deep learning. Critical thinkers do not ask questions for the sake of questions but to spark learning and discovery.

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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

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AEROSPACE ENGINEERING – generally involves the design and construction of aeroplanes, jets, gliders, autogyros, helicopters and more, but the skills needed to do this can be applied to other areas. CIVIL ENGINEERING – the design and construction of infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, buildings, railways and utility networks.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

Because for some reason—that maybe one day we’ll have a scientific-style understanding of—if we always pick the highest-ranked word, we’ll typically get a very “flat” essay, that never seems to “show any creativity” (and even sometimes repeats word for word).

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

One of the notable features of a system like ChatGPT is that it isn’t constructed in an “understand-every-step” traditional engineering way. People might say: “Computers can never show creativity or originality”. Vastly more ornate “food constructions” might become the norm. So what’s left?

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