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What is the 21st Century Lesson Plan?

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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?

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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. He works with Ashoka and the Edge Foundation and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Alliance MBS Business School, the University of Manchester. ABOUT SHAUN.

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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

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He is principal investigator for the Smorphacade control system, bringing with him a broad research background involving structures, wind vibration, and data-driven modelling. This proactive shape-changing will require a sophisticated control system, which is where Jared comes in. We use wind tunnels to test aeroelastic models,” says Alice.

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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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