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Support English Learners with Micro-credentials from Digital Promise

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Four primary characteristics of micro-credentials are: competency-based. Constructive Conversations – Assessing Student Conversations. Constructive Conversations – Helping Students Clarify and Support Ideas. Constructive Conversations – Creating Effective Conversation Prompts. Constructive Conversations [link] .

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How a New Approach to Early Childhood Could Avert a ‘Public Policy Catastrophe’

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Wuori’s arguments throughout the concise, 101-page book are premised on what he calls “The Three Simple Truths of Early Development”: Learning begins in utero and never stops. Because you're not selecting a babysitter, you are selecting the adults who will help co-construct your child's brain. A bigger change the field requires?

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Critical Thinking Development in Middle School Education

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By dissеcting litеraturе, studеnts not only develop analytical skills but also еnhancе thеir ability to construct rеasonеd arguments. This approach еncouragеs scholars to quеstion historical narrativеs, analyzе primary sourcеs, and develop a nuanced understanding of thе complexities inhеrеnt in human history.

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Beginning the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content

User Generated Education

One of our primary goals at the beginning of the school year is to get to know our students. Knowledge Constructor: Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others. Getting to Know Learners.

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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 First Days of the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content

User Generated Education

Establish a learning community where all learners are seen as having value in our classroom Getting to Know Learners One of our primary goals at the beginning of the school year should be to get to know our students. This is important for several reasons.

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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.