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Will Banning TikTok Make Kids Safer Online? It’s More Complicated Than That

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Ask just about anyone what’s behind the downward spiral of youth mental health today, and chances are that social media will be on their list of causes. The relationship between social media and mental health is nuanced and different for each person, says Stephanie M. While the U.S.

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Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South

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The threat of climate change has exposed more homes to flooding and wildfires, and it has intensified heat waves that prompt farmers to lose crop yields and a way to sustain a living. The curriculum also primes students for college and potential careers in science. Other challenges seem to have set back STEM education, too.

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What Role Does Social Media Use Play in the Youth Mental Health Crisis? Researchers Are Trying to Find Out

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A few months later, the chief science officer at the American Psychological Association testified before a Senate committee that America’s youth mental health system was fundamentally flawed. Much attention has been paid to the potential role of social media in that crisis. Youth mental health is at a crisis point.

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Whatever Happened to Building a Metaverse for Education?

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That buzz has all but vanished , especially when it comes to the idea of setting up shared virtual spaces like the ones imagined by the science fiction author who coined the term metaverse. And it must be social.” Remember all the hype around the metaverse in education? And for education, we need more. We need interactivity.

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. Thousands of students go through the university’s life sciences department, he adds, but a lot of them don’t graduate with degrees in those fields.

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My Students Wanted Hope in the Curriculum. I Found the Answer in Wholistic Science Pedagogy.

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We had just finished a discussion on climate change in my chemistry class. Towards the end of the unit, I asked students how their understanding of the topic has changed since the first lesson. Yes, we could organize a march against climate change, but honestly, what will that change? It’s a deeply depressing thought.

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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

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Culture embodies our deepest collective social norms and beliefs, and provides the reference points for future learning. This process is meant to leverage not only the brain science behind complex mathematical reasoning, but also students’ passion for making change in the world on their own terms.

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