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Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work? A New Analysis Dives Into the Research

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The biggest surprise to the researchers as they coded each research project was realizing how many different versions of flipped learning exist, said John Hattie, an emeritus professor at the University of Melbourne who co-authored the study. I didn’t think that was fair to people practicing flipped learning.”

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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“Economics is the study of how people make decisions, how we choose where to study and work, how we promote fairness in society and how our lives are shaped by market institutions and government policies,” says Dr Emil Temnyalov, an economist at the University of Technology Sydney. Is differential treatment fair?

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STEAM in History: Elif Bilgin

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But that didn’t stop Elif Bilgin from taking home the title of Google Science Fair winner at just 14 years old. As early as age 4, she was reading books that sparked her curiosity and passion for science. Bilgin turned her family’s kitchen into a science lab. References: Elif Bilgin. Draw my project!

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Micro:Bit in the classroom

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CC-By provided by the author Since 2016, IC 21 Bologna lower secondary school has participated in a national project named “ Girls Code it Better ”. This project is aimed to encourage young girls to approach science and technology in a more confident way, in order to decrease the gender imbalance in STEM careers. Linkedin page.

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Do Online Degrees Lead to Jobs as Reliably as Traditional Ones?

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Two theories proposed by notable twentieth-century scholars stand out—one by James Samuel Coleman, an American sociologist who worked at the University of Chicago, and the other by French structuralist Pierre Bourdieu, who taught at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris.

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How ‘Climate Anxiety’ Affects Students — and What We Can Do About It

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That is to say, people who are part of certain racial groups — likely a reference to the outsized impact climate change has on Black and Hispanic people — and low-income people. It makes you feel super helpless, especially when you start acknowledging who gets affected.” That answer is yes, according to one expert.

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STEAM In History: Fionn Ferreira

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Grand Prize winner of the 2019 Google Science Fair, Forbes 30 Under 30 Listee, and founder and CEO of his own company, Fionn & Co., Thanks to a high school science experiment, he realized mixing light vegetable oil and magnetite powder in polluted water would form a ferrofluid. Who is Fionn Ferreira? Author: Jessica Ventre.