Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 2, 2020

Thanks to easy access to internet resources and a serious lack of understanding on the part of many students about what online resources can legally be used, plagiarism has become a huge problem in schools. Students have to follow the method prescribed by the school or University. Elaborate reading of reference books is a good idea.

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ED Surge

JUNE 9, 2022

Which schools deserve to top lists of the best colleges in the U.S.? That’s the argument made by researchers at the think tank Third Way, who developed a new way to rank the nation’s colleges. Meanwhile, she adds, the top 10 schools based on the economic mobility index enroll nearly 100,000 Pell recipients.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Schools are no longer reliant on years-old (or decades-old) textbooks written for the average student, whoever that is. As a result, an increasing number of schools are making micro-credentials a fundamental piece in their professional development plan. . Four primary characteristics of micro-credentials are: competency-based.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2019

I’ll never forget when the Director of Technology at my school decided kids didn’t need keyboarding lessons until middle school. Another clever twist on the argument against keyboard training is that audio input will soon take over. Of course you do. 36% of the world population does. Are you a geek?

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Teaching Artificial Intelligence Robotics Technology 313

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2023

Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts; Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources (9-10 grade Reading Standards–History–2) .

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Critical Thinking Problem Solving Argumentation Achievement 343

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Some schools realize students aren’t learning to their full potential. They feel it is unrelated to what happens to them outside of school. Here are suggestions by primary school teacher Chris Andrews (with a picture of a personalized learning classroom ). If not, make this change in the physical environment first.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We ought to eliminate those terms from our lexicon and, instead, think of those programs as schools and the adults employed there as teachers, Wuori writes. 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.

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 8, 2017

9Too many classes, all grade levels, begin the school year with getting down to academic business – starting to cover content, discussing expectations regarding academic requirements, giving tests, and other academic information provided by the teacher to the students in a mostly one-way communication. Getting to Know Learners.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 18, 2015

emphasize in their respective accounts; Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources (9-10 grade Reading Standards–History–2). . They forget–or don’t realize that the critical thinking and problem solving skills they learn in school and life can be applied everywhere.

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Critical Thinking Problem Solving Argumentation Achievement 252

User Generated Education

JULY 31, 2023

Too many classes, all grade levels, begin the school year with getting down to academic business – starting to cover content, discussing expectations regarding academic requirements, giving tests, and other academic information provided by the teacher to the students in a mostly one-way communication.

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Schooling Elementary Communications Argumentation 62

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But in 1798 Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) (1753–1814) measured the heat produced by the mechanical process of boring a cannon, and began to make the argument that, in contradiction to the caloric theory, there was actually some kind of correspondence between mechanical energy and amount of heat.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Futurum

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I strongly believe that the world needs engineers with strong critical thinking skills, who know how to ask questions, understand bias, construct and evaluate arguments, and think comprehensively and creatively. This goes hand in hand with ethical thinking. How are you developing and addressing both your strengths and weaknesses?

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Ellipsis Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Primary Elementary. Middle School. High School HS CS Python Unplugged Lesson: Tailor-Made Functions - In this activity, students deepen their understanding of functions and function calls by participating in a functions story performance. To view the courses in which these lessons came from, visit our courses page.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

In a somewhat different direction, we’ve expanded our Wolfram Summer School to add a Wolfram Winter School , and we’ve greatly expanded our our Wolfram High School Summer Research Program , adding year-round programs , middle-school programs , etc.—including And then there’s livestreaming. is PositionSmallest.

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Futurum

MAY 10, 2023

Nutrient-rich soil or water contains large amounts of nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus, sulphur and potassium As all high school students know, learning new things can be challenging. These kinds of specialties are more common in schools that have a greater focus on research.

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Geology Critical Thinking Research Research 52

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But then—basically starting in the early 1980s—there was a burst of progress based on a new idea (of which, yes, I seem to have ultimately been the primary initiator): the idea of using simple programs , rather than mathematical equations, as the basis for models of things in nature and elsewhere.

Physics 65

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But then—basically starting in the early 1980s—there was a burst of progress based on a new idea (of which, yes, I seem to have ultimately been the primary initiator): the idea of using simple programs , rather than mathematical equations, as the basis for models of things in nature and elsewhere.

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Science Sciences Physics Mathematics 60

Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

And when the train came to Los Angeles, the young Ed Fredkin decided he had to be the first person to see it : The Los Angeles Times published his account of his adventure—a younger but “quintessentially Ed” story: Ed’s record in high school was at best spotty. Richard Feynman and I would get into very fierce arguments.

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Trump has named Betsy DeVos ed secretary and now some public school teacher groups say they’re appalled. It wasn’t in place when I started school. When I went to school, there were lots of electives, and no testing pressures. This has been widely covered in the press so right at the start, the argument fizzles out.

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