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The 8 Elements of Critical Thinking

Educators Technology

The purpose of critical thinking is to inform our behaviours, actions, decisions and to "improve our ability to reason and generate strong arguments" (Hanscomb, 2016, p. In this non-critical state, the mind becomes a warehouse of facts, a receptacle of unfiltered ideas and arguments. The taken for granted becomes the norm.

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How to Host a Debate in Your Science Classroom

Vivify Stem

Why Scientific Argumentation? Scientific argumentation holds a crucial place in the science classroom! By encouraging students to construct, evaluate, and communicate scientific explanations, it prompts active engagement with scientific concepts.

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Navigating the Three Dimensions of NGSS: A Guide for 4th and 5th Grade Teachers

The Science Penguin

The DCI states, “Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.” It also encourages students to be flexible and creative and to develop their ideas over time. In our NGSS-aligned Phenomena-Based Science Units , each unit is aligned to a specific DCI.

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The New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language

Stephen Wolfram

And for example doing a very simple piece of machine learning , we again get a symbolic object which can be used as a function and applied to an argument to get a result: And so it is with LLMFunction. By giving a second argument to LLMFunction you can say you want actual, structured computable output. are symbolic objects.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

It began partly as an empirical law, and partly as something abstractly constructed on the basis of the idea of molecules, that nobody at the time knew for sure existed. But what’s important for our purposes here is that in the setup Carnot constructed he basically ended up introducing the Second Law.

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

Then for each function (or other construct in the language) there are pages that explain the function, with extensive examples. One new construct added in Version 13.1 —and And now there’s a way to specify that, using Threaded : In a sense, Threaded is part of a new wave of symbolic constructs that have “ambient effects” on lists.

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Boost Literacy with STEAM

PCS Edventures

Both Discover Digital Video LAB and Traveling Artist kits are flexible for in-person or distance learning. Well, in recent years, you may have noticed an increased focus on supporting scientific thinking with written and oral arguments. Click to View Full Size.