User Generated Education

MARCH 23, 2020

This also true for kids and young people. Civic engagement and activism in normal times has benefits, but in these times of coronavirus and social distancing-isolation, the benefits are amplified as such engagement can move young people from feelings of helplessness to feelings of empowerment.

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APRIL 27, 2022

How can vaccinating pigs protect people? It involves working with lots of interesting people from different backgrounds. Remember, researchers are very busy people, so you may have to wait a few days.). The post How can vaccinating pigs protect people? Published: April 27, 2022. Teamwork is what I enjoy most about my job.

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Smore Science

JANUARY 7, 2023

Some people have bouts of hiccups when they are excited, or stressed, or experience some kind of sudden change in temperature. When people experience persistent hiccups, it is often a sign that there’s an underlying health condition. The post Why do People Get Hiccups? A lot of these triggers are unique to the person.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

Prostheses for people: matching the person and their new limb. Mechanical engineers Professor Laurence Kenney and Dr Alex Dickinson are working with people in different parts of the world to make prostheses as accessible and useful as possible. Published: Worldwide, the majority of amputees do not have access to a useful prosthesis.

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Futurum

JUNE 1, 2023

How can music technology improve the well-being of people living with dementia? She is collaborating with researchers Dr Justin Christensen and Jon Pigrem , to develop new digital music technologies to improve music accessibility for people living with dementia. How can music benefit people living with dementia?

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STEM Next

APRIL 24, 2023

Youth Employment Works Launch – Centering Young People in Workforce Development Opportunities By: Director of Policy Melissa Mortiz, in collaboration with Dr. Stephanie Rodriguez, STEM Next Opportunity Workforce and Training Fellow Photo courtesy of Andrea Piacquadio On March 9th, the U.S.

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Smore Science

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Poor Peoples March at Washingon Monument and Lincoln Memorial, Credit: unsplash.com/Library of Congress. Such people have played a great role in improving society over the decades. In addition, there are many instances where people struggled for change throughout history. Many have found themselves at the forefront of change.

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ED Week

JANUARY 25, 2024

Students, especially students of color, need fresh incentives to pursue the fields, explains a STEM professor.

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Futurum

MARCH 2, 2023

What misconceptions do people have about careers in the tech industry? No day is the same when working with different people around the world. What are some misconceptions people have about a career in tech? People in tech work 24/7 and spend all their time behind a computer screen without a social life.

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JULY 15, 2022

Are we giving young people the capabilities they need to succeed? Shaun McInerney , education consultant and senior project coordinator for Ashoka and the Edge Foundation in the UK, explains how their ‘New Capabilities for a New World’ programme aims to help schools in greater Manchester prepare young people for an uncertain future.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

The value of college is something that people used to pretty much agree on. In 2013, a little over a decade ago, the number of young people who thought a college degree was very important was 74 percent, according to a Gallup poll. A lot of people think that going to college means getting a degree. So what is happening here?

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Futurum

JULY 1, 2022

‘Influencer’ is now a popular career choice for young people – here’s what you should know about the creator economy’s dark side. But it’s not surprising that young people – up to 1.3 Some 300,000 people aged 18-26 are already using content creation as their sole income source. Pinterest. Nina Willment , University of York.

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Magic EdTech

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

People with dyslexia struggle with sounds, making it difficult for them to read and spell. According to statistics published by the Dyslexia Center of Utah , it is the most common language-based learning disability, with over 70%-80% of the people with poor reading skills are likely to be dyslexic.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2016

They sway the choices that young people make and not just because they are an authority figure. That one educator that they really clicked with and that had a lasting influence even years later. Teachers are entrusted with helping to guide children and teens down the right paths for this very reason.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender and sexual identity or about the history of racism in America. These are people who promote conflict for conflict's sake because there's some political gain or financial gain in doing that.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JUNE 20, 2022

Fewer people succeed. More people drop-out. The average performance in the text-based condition would be higher than in the block-based condition — simply because you’ve filtered out everyone who doesn’t have the prior background. Pretty common CS Ed result. If you just compare performance text vs. blocks, text looks better.

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Jay Flores

OCTOBER 20, 2021

During this incredible visit I realized that there numerous ways young people can be engaged in STEM at amusement parks that ignite their natural curiosity, grow their knowledge, and develop habits of learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

During Chinese New Year, people welcome the new year and engage in activities that bring good luck. People decorate their homes with red lanterns, couplets, and other red items. Temple Visits: Many people visit temples during Chinese New Year to pray for good fortune and make offerings. The celebration usually lasts for 15 days.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

And a lot of our history in education is written through with racial and social class-based exclusion, where people have been excluded from school settings and from selective school settings as a function of race and class. Another kind of norm is about how we respond to people who are different from us and how we value diversity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2024

People will skip them, and then skip your blog. People are turned off by a constant stream of self-serving posts and responses. These break up a longish post (like this one) and keep people reading. People like stories. Avoid big blocks of text. Only reblog 10% of someone else’s post.

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Futurum

JULY 15, 2022

“The biggest takeaway for me is recognising that young people want the same things from education that changemaker adults want.”. In Greater Manchester, UK, and over the course of one year, 20 headteachers have come together with 20 young people to share best practices and initiate change in their schools. Published: July 15, 2022.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2024

Most people focus on its impact on school research, lesson plans–that sort–but another piece isn’t considered often enough: its impact on student mental health. Generative AI is an exploding influence in education with lots of potential but unknown outcomes.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

One problem that students — and, really, any of us — face, Caulfield argues, is that people often approach information they encounter online with the same strategies for telling fact from fiction that worked well in an earlier time, when most published material had undergone some level of vetting and verification.

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Smore Science

JULY 9, 2022

It is much more widespread among animals than people think! The post Unexpected Animals That Can Regenerate<br/><h2 class='blogsubtitle'>Regeneration is much more widespread among animals than people think!</h2> How does regeneration work? In a few weeks, it may grow back its tail.

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ED Surge

APRIL 5, 2024

I detest when people talk about their dreams. Was it the Instagram reel I watched of a group of people freeing a dog from one? When I try to talk to people about the state of education, my thoughts become muddled as I try to briefly summarize complex funding models and complicated political strategies into a brief elevator pitch.

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All About STEM

APRIL 12, 2024

Place bright young people at the heart of your organisation by hosting a 5-day Experience or 2-week Research Placement. Placements are offered to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to increase opportunities to access university courses and STEM-related careers.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

That's really been kind of our mode of operation: How do we just enable exploration and not disable access,” he says, “or have people say, ‘It's the latest trend, and it'll go away.’” Everybody has a Google account, and people can use their Google account to log into a ton of free services,” Dirkin says. “We

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The argument in Egan’s book is hard to summarize, but the thrust is that the way schools teach has become too disconnected from the way young people are wired to learn. And in order to bind together as a group of people, you need to have these things … they're the big gears that turn the wheels of the human mind.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 11, 2024

They found that young people look to libraries to provide safe places to hang out and to access resources like free Wi-Fi, makerspaces, and tech equipment — expectations they carry with them to college, according to people who work in and with academic libraries. But it does show how many people are in a given space at a given time.

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All About STEM

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The aim is to provide a focus on careers activities at an important stage in the academic calendar to help support young people leaving education. National Careers Week is a celebration of careers guidance and free resources in education taking place across the UK from the 4th to the 9th of March.

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Maydm

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The post September 17, 2020, Rockwell Automation: Curious People Wonder: Preparing the Next Generation of Innovators first appeared on Maydm. In this conversation they discuss how teaching the power of curiosity is preparing the next generation of innovators.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

But he also talks regularly online with young people who have found a way to make a living pursuing his main interests — music and coding — without a college degree. I’ve been researching cases of people my age doing [college], and then they get out and they use their degree and they still struggle to make a living for themselves,” he says.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2023

I think there's a feeling amongst a lot of people that there's something broken about the way we produce knowledge in academia,” he says. Professors often spend years writing a paper or a book, he adds, and then it takes years or months to get published, and then read by very few people. Let's let people in.

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All About STEM

APRIL 24, 2024

Chat, collaborate & discover new ways to inspire young people. STEM Ambassadors – Join STEM Ambassadors Community! The STEM Ambassadors Guide to Supporting STEM Clubs has just been added to the Community Training Hub!

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2023

For decades, a nonprofit group called The Moth has produced workshops, events and a popular radio show where people tell transformative stories from their lives. People at all phases of their life are still figuring things out — from relationships with others, to relationships with their bodies, to their career.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And that's how people learn math. Not “Math People” The procedural approach can be effective for students who thrive in structured environments and excel at memorizing formulas and algorithms. I’ve seen PBL build the confidence of students who thought they weren’t math people. All of a sudden, they are math people.

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All About STEM

APRIL 23, 2024

IET Faraday® Challenge Days aim to encourage more young people to study and consider exciting and rewarding careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) by using creativity, innovation and problem-solving skills.

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