Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 5, 2015

Very effective: Argument Wars. These are mostly for MS, a mixture of flashcards, games and simulations. Branches of Power. Civics Game Room. Civics games. Congress for Kids. Court Quest. C-Span –Congress at work in video. Elections—the Game. Electoral College—humourous video. Executive Command. How Laws are Made.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This time, it’s not about iPads and Chromebooks; it’s 1:1 computing. More than 50% of teachers report they have one computer for every student (on average) and that changes for the better every year. Supporting Student Argumentation – Understanding Structure and Language of Argumentation.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

For this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we talked with Khan to hear more about his vision of AI tutors and the arguments from his recent book. And those have always been the kind of problems that computers have supported students fairly nimbly in solving.” What would you say to that argument?

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STEMe

MARCH 31, 2024

But as it happens, Danish academics have been working over the past few years to figure out how to apply computational science to forecast when a person will die. A study on this topic, led by Professor Sune Lehmann at Denmark University, was published under Nature Computational Science in 2023.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 7, 2017

They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. As they work, students “…construct viable arguments and critique reasoning of others…” More specifically (Common Core Appendix C): introduce claim. provide a concluding statement that follows from argument presented. Service Learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 6, 2019

They feel no guilt, don’t understand the legal risk they face, and think the argument that “everyone does it” makes it OK. Add to that the difficulty that schools have in policing plagiarism with the increased role of computers and technology in the classroom, and you have a serious problem on your hands.

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Futurum

APRIL 18, 2023

Professor Dane Morgan and Dr Ryan Jacobs from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US are investigating the opportunities and challenges this advancement poses. A digital abundance All areas of science have benefited from the rise of computation and the internet. “We

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2016

They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. As they work, students “…construct viable arguments and critique reasoning of others…” More specifically (Common Core Appendix C): introduce claim. provide a concluding statement that follows from argument presented. They take questions.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 29, 2018

Here’s a fascinating article by Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, James Lovelock, discussing the balance between rote drills and integrated learning in teaching keyboarding: As a pre-service teacher, I have always found the arguments around different forms of teaching and learning to be highly frustrating. More on keyboarding.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. How Did We Get Here?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Most famously: Bill Gates, who dropped out of college because he believed he could learn more from life than professors. If you can’t make that argument, you probably shouldn’t make the change. What to do when your Computers Don’t Work. When you teach a lesson, you constantly reassess based on student progress.

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STEM Education Guide

MARCH 4, 2023

In this article, we’re looking at both sides of the argument. The episode outlined the development of computer software written by Tomohiro Tachi who collaborated with Erik Demaine that used origami algorithms to design two dimensional crease patterns to create any three dimensional object from a piece of paper.

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Futurum

DECEMBER 21, 2022

TALK LIKE A… COMPUTER ENGINEER. SSDs, on the other hand, are completely electronic, allow computers and devices faster access to information stored in them and consume less power than HDDs. Kim, an assistant professor at the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University in the US. Dr Bryan S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 16, 2016

It can be used not only for fiction, but narrative, argumentative, and expository writing exercises. This can include an introduction, a book review for the classroom library, an argument on a particular topic, or a class debate. Free for educators; web and mobile app. VoiceThread. Fee; web or iOS. Zimmertwins at School. Freemium; web.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Library and research skills cover areas such as knowing how to reference and cite authors properly, being able to discern between reliable and unreliable sources of information, accessing scientific literature and giving accurate evidence-based arguments when writing scientific essays and reports. What do students learn from studying this?

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Published: At The University of Queensland in Australia, Professor Deborah Brown and Professor Brian Key have created a unique team of philosophers and neuroscientists to investigate which animals have the capacity to feel pain. PROFESSOR BRIAN KEY School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2019

Let’s look at that term, “digital native” Techopedia defines it as: a person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and therefore familiar with computers and the Internet from an early age. Another clever twist on the argument against keyboard training is that audio input will soon take over.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2016

The teacher shares one of the over one-hundred grade- and topic-specific prompts (divided into three categories: argumentative, narrative, and informative) with students, including any required resources and special instructions. Here’s how it works: The teacher sets up their class dashboard and invites students to join via a Join code.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Recently we had a guest author who was struggling how to phrase one of her arguments. There were two paragraphs in this argument, and they didn’t connect with each other. This has happened to me 3 , and if it happened to me as a white male tenured professor then it can happen to anybody. There are risks involved.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2016

Where they diverge from you and I is they haven’t tested all the available methods for planning a story, constructing non-fiction, or building the evidence-based argument. It’s called ‘prewriting’ and students are no different.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

It started with a push for desktop computers which soon expanded to iPads and the wonderful apps (like art programs) that made tablets essential tools. Let’s take a clear-eyed look at the pluses on each side of this argument. For the past decade, schools have invested millions of dollars in technology.

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Ellipsis Education

APRIL 6, 2021

Because computer science is much more than learning programming languages , the good news is this… you don’t have to know them all. It is a fundamental concept in computer science and software development. Finally, parameters and arguments are values passed to the functions as data for the algorithm to digest.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2016

Is the web tool compatible with most browsers , most computers ? I don’t want it so old it won’t play well with the type of computer commonly used by students. Does it require sufficient critical thinking to keep the student engaged or do they get bored quickly? Is the web tool free ? That’s preferable.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2015

The result is a compelling argument that education is less a data download and more a fitness program for our brains. ” Common Core Standards expect students to ‘value evidence’, ‘make arguments evidence-based,’ and ‘comprehend and evaluate complex texts’ as students draw conclusions.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. But it wasn’t long before I started hearing mentions that somewhere at the school there was a computer. I’d seen a computer in real life only once—when I was 10 years old, and from a distance. How Did We Get Here?

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As you can imagine, there are many arguments both for and against these ideas. On one hand, we build mathematical models, we conduct statistical analyses, and we run computer simulations,” says Emil. “On During my school years, I was always very interested in computers, video games and foreign languages.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

And there was one way in which Ed and I were very much aligned: both of our lives were deeply influenced by computers and computing. Ed had started with computers in 1956—as part of one of the very first cohorts of programmers. Finally I felt as if there might be a plausible computational foundation for fundamental physics.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2015

They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. This project works for grades 4 and up, but competition entry is limited to older students. Class Debate. Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class. They take questions.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

Professor Jeffrey Catchmark and his team at Pennsylvania State University in the US believe they have one such solution, using common plant-based materials to create sustainable food packaging. Nowadays, it encompasses artificial intelligence (AI), the brain-computer interface, synthetic biology, and even social and ethical analysis.

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Talk STEM

MAY 13, 2021

While there is certainly an argument to be made that this is largely based on historical attitudes and the continuance of white men from prior generations that dominate leadership roles, that isn’t the crux of the issue. There really should be no argument that there should be a more diverse makeup of STEM contributors. Conclusion.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 29, 2022

You can probably get a 750 word post in 10 minutes by just firing up Google Docs and talking into your computer about how things went in class today.   A: As a cisgendered middle-age white American tenured full professor, I am just about the least-ever qualified person to answer this. I haven't seen them.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 18, 2015

For example, if I ask them to write a report using a word processing tool (Word, Google Docs), they are welcome to convince me a slideshow or video would be a better choice, but they have to make their argument based on logic and evidence, comparing and contrasting their approach to mine.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 7, 2016

They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. This project works for grades 4 and up, but optional competition entry is limited to older students. Here’s a thorough lesson plan. Class Debate. Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 22, 2022

I’ll be attending this year’s meetings somewhat briefly, arriving a couple of days early to take a computational geometry minicourse, giving a talk about clickers in transition-to-proof courses [PDF] on Wednesday, and then heading home Thursday morning. professor in the math department. Do your homework.

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Futurum

MAY 10, 2023

Plymouth State University is a predominantly undergraduate institution (PUI), meaning that its main focus is on teaching undergraduate degrees, rather than facilitating the research of professors and lecturers. My advice is to try to save your notes and textbooks from classes and make connections with professors you like.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 7, 2024

Sometimes the best thing you can do is turn off your computer Why would you want to avoid drama at school, but come home, go online to take part in more drama? Turn off your computer and do something less stressful. Kids and teens aren’t always mature enough to handle arguments and fights.

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Publication Argumentation Accessibility Curriculum 275

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 1, 2023

Sometimes the best thing you can do is turn off your computer Why would you want to avoid drama at school, but come home, go online to take part in more drama? Turn off your computer and do something less stressful. Kids and teens aren’t always mature enough to handle arguments and fights.

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