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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

ED Surge

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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10 Ways to Use Defined Learning for Project-Based Learning Excellence

Cool Cat Teacher

Literacy Task Project – tasks that require reading, research, and writing literacies. Constructed Response Project – nonfiction reading and writing experiences for grades K-6. What Does the Research Say about Project-Based Learning? The research on project-based learning is profound.

Learning 227
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Harnessing CS and Technology Skills for Culturally Responsive and Sustainable Solutions

CoderZ

In today’s rapidly evolving world, computer science (CS) and technology skills have become indispensable tools for addressing a wide range of societal challenges. Technology and computing are in all industries including farming and agriculture, manufacturing, construction, and retail.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

By combining engineering and human rights disciplines, he is researching the links between access to transport and the inequalities facing Peruvians today. This required data about social factors in each district, such as the population age structure, level of employment and literacy rate. This process is known as peripheralisation.

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Fire trackers: how can we use modelling techniques to predict where wildfires will occur?

Futurum

Researchers from the FLARE Wildfire Research Group at The University of Melbourne in Australia are developing models that can help predict where wildfires are most likely to occur and how fires behave under different weather conditions. How does the team study bushfire behaviour?

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Flights of fancy: can we unravel the mystery of flight?

Futurum

Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection is one of the most important and ground-breaking scientific concepts ever constructed. I use many techniques in my research,” explains Ashley, “because each provides a different type of information.” FIELD OF RESEARCH : Evolutionary Biology. Published: May 26, 2022.

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The importance of community for reducing social isolation

Futurum

Over four years, the team is recruiting 60 Mexican immigrant women a year, 30 of whom are randomly assigned to attend a weekly Tertulias group and 30 of whom are randomly assigned to the ‘control arm’ of the research project in which they do not receive peer support. I didn’t start out as a health researcher,” says Janet.