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If We’re Serious About Student Well-Being, We Must Change the Systems Students Learn In

ED Surge

But while working with schools and colleges across the globe as we conducted research for our book , we realized that most interventions don’t address systemic issues causing mental health problems in the first place. Indeed, a meta-analysis of research on this issue found a correlation between homework and achievement.

Learning 279
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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. and from ASCD: A growing body of research confirms the benefits of building a sense of community in school.

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Plant polymers as plastic alternatives

Futurum

His team began its research with the end goal of creating a sustainable and practical alternative to plastic packaging. But our research won’t stop there. Under his mentorship, I have not only evolved into a better researcher but also a better person. From lab to factory How does such a product come into existence?

Biology 84
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Connecting STEAM Education and Computer Science

Ellipsis Education

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) use creative processes to observe, interpret, and analyze the world around us. STEM is all about problem solving and critical thinking, and it's safe to say that those skills involve creativity. Isn’t that what art is all about, too? So, why is STEAM important? Tran et al, 2021).

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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.

Schooling 116
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Grand questions about grand challenges

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

which specifically called for 25% of departments at the TEA participant's universities to use active learning as the primary means of determining teaching effectiveness for promotion/tenure purposes by the end of 2025.)   Merit and promotion realities are in conflict with these goals for research faculty at an R1.

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

Stephen Wolfram

He starts off by saying about Carnot’s book: The idea which serves as a basis of his researches seems to me to be both fertile and beyond question; his demonstrations are founded on the absurdity of the possibility of creating motive power or heat out of nothing. He ends his piece with: In (2) the hedging is interesting.

Energy 89