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The Role of Simulations in the Learning Journey

Magic EdTech

Simulations unlike games have no end, so the student can continue to practice and learn as much as they’d like, whereas in games, when the game ends there is typically no way to go back and redo a specific portion or lesson. It brings learning to life where textbooks or traditional online learning often fall short.

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What is the 21st Century Lesson Plan?

Ask a Tech Teacher

You aren’t the only one to come up with these varied approaches–students know what works best for their learning and present it to you as an option. The textbook is a resource , supplemented by a panoply of books, primary documents, online sites, experts, Skype chats, and anything else that supports the topic.

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Are we giving young people the capabilities they need to succeed?

Futurum

OFSTED doesn’t want schools to backtrack GCSE exam provision to Key Stage 3, it wants Key Stage 3 to be about deep learning and preparing learners for key stage 4. More than they feel empowered to use, I’d say. Having led a school, I understand the constraints.

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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

Futurum

While mitigating wind-induced vibrations is the project’s primary function, the team also intends for the designs to be able to react to other environmental conditions by controlling shading or changing colour to save energy. Along the way we have made major contributions to the state-of-the-art of building design under wind events.”.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

For almost a decade starting in 1982, my primary computer had been a progressively more sophisticated Sun workstation. I wanted the index to include not only the name of every person I mentioned in the book, but also their dates, and the primary country or countries in which they worked, as in “Wolfram, Stephen (England/USA, 1959– ).”.

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