ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

But even if as a program for 20 of the most self-starting people each year, the Thiel Fellowship beats higher education, does that really prove Peter Thiel’s argument that somehow college is broken? And he argues that there’s a danger in Thiel’s argument. And he argues that there’s a danger in Thiel’s argument. “I

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2023

In November, the Virginia Board of Education tossed out its plan to revise the state’s standards of learning for history and social studies. The revisions were embroiled in arguments over what good math teaching looks like. Riling up many of these no-holds-barred K-12 scraps is “inclusivity.”

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

School staff and students spent more than two years working and learning in fear and under threat. In my community, fights over masks and mandates have stopped for the time being , only to be replaced by similarly incendiary arguments over books, bathrooms , equity and teacher shortages.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

And the argument is that if a university degree is a good investment, it ought to be substantially more valuable than the opportunity cost. My argument is that the risk is too high, and the returns too low. It’s basic educational thinking: You learn what you do. Really it’s about exploring—about learning about growing.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2015

What you want for these last few weeks are activities that keep the learning going, but in a different way. They work in groups to learn the tool (using help files, how-to videos, and resources on the site), create a project using the tool (one that ties into something being discussed in class), and then teach classmates. Class Debate.

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Computing Education Research Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

My argument is that computer science was originally invented to be taught to everyone, but not for economic advantage. ” He argued that everyone needed to learn about computer science, in order to have democratic control of these processes. My goal was to put both of these efforts in a historical context.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) I know that, historically, the arguments for Black excellence in education have shifted considerably. I wanted to ask about some of the economic disparities because as much as particular teachers may be mission-focused, it is a profession.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 9, 2018

What you want for these last few weeks are activities that keep the learning going but in a different way. They work in groups to learn the tool (using help files, how-to videos, and resources on the site), create a project using the tool (one that ties into something being discussed in class), and then teach classmates. Class Debate.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 7, 2016

What you want for these last few weeks are activities that keep the learning going, but in a different way. They work in groups to learn the tool (using help files, how-to videos, and resources on the site), create a project using the tool (one that ties into something being discussed in class), and then teach classmates. Class Debate.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JULY 15, 2024

A new book edited by Colby Tofel-Grehl and Emmanuel Schanzer ( Improving Equity in Data Science: Re-Imagining the Teaching and Learning of Data in K-16 Classrooms ) focuses on developing equitable data literacy — making sure that all students have these skills, and to use them in culturally responsive contexts. Data aren’t free.

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Defined Learning

JANUARY 24, 2023

I put “projects” in quotes because these kinds of assignments, while valuable to an extent, should not be confused with project-based learning. Big Idea: People migrate to find economic opportunities and greater freedom. Driving Question: How can we tell powerful stories of people who experienced the Great Migration?

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National Science Foundation

JANUARY 20, 2022

Now, this is usually where I would launch into a well-honed set of arguments explicating the various economic, societal, and moral imperatives which make clear the need for America to tackle issues of equity and inclusion through a systemic transformation approach to cultivate a larger and more inclusive STEMM workforce.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 24, 2019

They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests (Division for Sustainable Development Goals, n.d.). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1.

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Wisconsin Science and STEM Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Students cannot meaningfully bring 25 different literacies or perspectives to bear as they explore phenomena and solve problems; I propose there are 5 that should frame student learning opportunities in PK-12. First, students grow in understanding of how social systems work—how cultures, economics, political systems, and communities function.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JULY 12, 2021

The former is important because the economic argument for computing education in schools is the most salient in the United States. The latter most often appears as a focus on learning computing skills without programming, e.g., like in the CS Unplugged activities from Tim Bell at the University of Canterbury ( link ).

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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.

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National Science Foundation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Arguments that suggest we do away with school algebra frame algebra itself as the problem and leave unexamined how and in what ways that algebra is taught. Mathematics classrooms that do not sufficiently support students’ learning—whether they center algebra or statistics—will not support equitable outcomes for students. Wilson et al.,

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Futurum

JUNE 21, 2022

DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. DR ABENAA OWUSU-BEMPAH Associate Professor of Law, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Learn more here.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

ICE CORE – a long cylinder of ice, extracted from ice sheets or glaciers, which helps scientists learn about past climatic and environmental conditions. By studying past changes using natural archives like ice cores, scientists like myself can learn what causes the Earth’s winds to shift. FROM DUST TO DUST. FIELD OF RESEARCH.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Because what we seem to be learning is that in fact our whole universe is operating as a giant multiway system. Events are like functions, whose “arguments” are incoming tokens, and whose output is one or more outgoing tokens. But I suspect there’s even more to learn by looking at something closer to the underlying token-event graph.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Because what we seem to be learning is that in fact our whole universe is operating as a giant multiway system. Events are like functions, whose “arguments” are incoming tokens, and whose output is one or more outgoing tokens. But I suspect there’s even more to learn by looking at something closer to the underlying token-event graph.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2022

Our education system is having its own Henny Penny moment, with loud voices from the right generating and spreading panic that social and emotional learning, or SEL, endangers and “ indoctrinates ” students. Rather, learning to manage our sometimes complex emotions productively should be among every school district’s and all parents’ goals.

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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2023

The pandemic and its many aftershocks — including a hit to labor force participation among women and a severe early childhood staffing shortage — helped many Americans unacquainted with these issues begin to understand the integral role that early care and education play in economic and social stability.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

However, Dr Emil Temnyalov , an economist at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, highlights the effects of socio-economic influences on these scores. While these are the areas of economics commonly in the news, the field is so much broader than this. Stock markets, unemployment, inflation and recession?

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 29, 2024

I later learned that a century earlier many well-known physicists were beginning to think in a similar direction (matter is discrete, light is discrete; space must be too) but back then they hadn’t had the computational paradigm or the other tools needed to move this forward. There was still much to do (and there still is today).

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

There was one major exception, however, in 1738, when—as part of his eclectic mathematical career spanning probability theory, elasticity theory, biostatistics, economics and more— Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782) published his book on hydrodynamics. But first we have to go back a bit in the story.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

But here for the most part I’m going to adopt a narrower definition—and say that AI is something based on machine learning (and usually implemented with neural networks), that’s been incrementally trained from examples it’s been given. OK, so we’ve said what we mean by AI. So now what do we mean by science, and by “doing science”?

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STEMe

MARCH 31, 2024

A neural network is a computer model based on the brain and nervous system, while a transformer model is a data architecture used to learn about language and other tasks. Life2vec’s algorithm learns from that data to make predictions about the person; like how they might think or behave.

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Talk STEM

JANUARY 11, 2022

Around 10% of Americans , for instance, don’t believe in climate change and therefore will be unswayed by arguments about the benefits of environmentally friendly STEM practices. Ethical sustainability, on the other hand, should be something anyone can support due to its consideration for people and economic factors.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

He used to like to tell people I’d learned a lot from him. It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). And in fact I think it was only in writing this piece that I even learned he’d grown up in Los Angeles (specifically, East Hollywood).

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Futurum

MAY 11, 2023

In addition to his data analysis, Michael also reads books on relevant topics, studies history, interviews people who sued their states for the right to marry and learns about the US legal system. In response, April and Jayne’s lawyers called Michael as a witness for their side of the argument. “I I was delighted to oblige!”

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