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

ED Surge

While looking for research and ideas for how to make a change, a close friend of mine recommended a talk by Larry McEnerney, who served as director of the writing program at the University of Chicago for 30 years, about the craft of effective writing. and “Is this the most meaningful assignment I can offer?”

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Educators Have Some Pointed Advice For Tech Companies Building the Metaverse

ED Surge

A lot of us who study what we call the science of learning have been very, very interested in the quick rise in technological alternatives for young children. But quite often they're introduced so fast and come on the market so quickly, that by the time we do our research already, it's [too late because what we studied is already outdated].

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5 Offbeat STEM Careers for the Curious and Adventurous Ones

Career in STEM

STEM students often find themselves pigeonholed into traditional career paths such as software development, data analysis, or research and development. This often involves collecting and analyzing evidence, interviewing witnesses, and conducting field research. Music Machine Learning Engineer. 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. Endorsements from other trustworthy sources can help build confidence. ABOUT CYBER SECURITY.

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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

Futurum

Together, Ben and Julia are collaborating to research whether COASST participant place attachment shapes understanding of the local environment and specific critical thinking skills. “In In COASST, we have seen time and time again the deep care that programme participants maintain for the places they study,” says Julia.

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National Laboratory dispatches scientists to engage community

STEMx

How do America’s STEM scientists and researchers dismantle the “ivory tower” idea? Department of Energy research facility operated by Battelle, is training some of its scientists and researchers how to explain their work to regular folks. The research they conduct at PNNL is complex and difficult to explain.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

I started a journal and a research center, and collected my papers in a book entitled Theory and Applications of Cellular Automata (later reissued as Cellular Automata and Complexity ). The result was that in late 1986 I started the development of Mathematica (and what’s now the Wolfram Language) and founded Wolfram Research.

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