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To Make Assignments More Meaningful, I’m Giving Students a More Authentic Audience

ED Surge

At first, I started small, taking one unit from my American History class — “The Early Republic,” — and reflecting on why students truly needed to learn the content, how it’s relevant today and what kinds of assignments would provide opportunities for students to write for an audience that would motivate them.

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Educators Have Some Pointed Advice For Tech Companies Building the Metaverse

ED Surge

That's not what real learning is about. Real learning is deep learning, not superficial learning. I think the opportunities for deep learning are endless. All you need to add is whatever your learning goal is and ta-dah, you have done it. And it's more than just reading and math.

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5 Offbeat STEM Careers for the Curious and Adventurous Ones

Career in STEM

This includes drafting, filing, and prosecuting patent applications with a relevant government agency, such as the United States Patent and Trademark Office or USPTO, and providing legal advice on patent-related issues. Music Machine Learning Engineer.

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Online battles: combatting false information and reducing online risks

Futurum

Deepfake — manipulation of existing digital media (image, video and/or audio) – e.g., by swapping faces and changing voices – or creation of new media, typically using machine learning-based techniques such as deep learning. ABOUT CYBER SECURITY. Pathway from school to Cyber Security.

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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

Futurum

Ben and Julia found that COASST participants improve their identification accuracy over time – a result of repeated and consistent identification practice and engagement with COASST staff who train and provide opportunities to learn.

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National Laboratory dispatches scientists to engage community

STEMx

These displays have the ability to assist in communication to the general public and have been valuable when sharing the research with technical sponsors and government representatives who visit the lab. PNNL staff members who take part in the program develop interactive, hands-on displays that engage and explain what goes on at PNNL.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But actual evolution seems more like deep learning with a large neural net—where one’s effectively operating in an extremely high-dimensional space where there’s typically always a “way to get there from here”, at least given enough time. (And, And indeed simple models of evolution might give one the intuition that this would happen.

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