ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Meanwhile, almost 40 percent of the American public still contest the results of a free and fair election, and with the 2024 federal election around the corner, political polarization in the United States seems neverending, leaving democracy in an arguably fragile state. Thinking historically is at the root of those skills.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A better understanding of the long arc of technology history might just help us make a course correction, he argues. He even takes the argument a step further when he complains that Twitter itself has become a kind of game for talking about current events and politics, rather than a genuine public sphere.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2022

There’s a unique opportunity to identify the dangerous side of the “fake it until you make it” argument, as Theranos not only wasted millions of dollars, but put some patients’ health in jeopardy. Unsurprisingly, the highly-publicized plan to deploy Knewton’s technology in service of incarcerated youth never happened.

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ED Surge

MAY 28, 2024

The move was partly based on San Francisco public schools, which had delayed algebra until high school for all students in a high-profile experiment. Recently, though, the city has changed course amid parental pressure. California is trying to solve a seemingly intractable problem.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

It represents one part of a greater attempt to encourage “responsible” use of this technology by the federal government , including a $140 million investment to create national academies that will focus on AI research, which is inching the country closer to a regulatory framework for AI.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2023

The civil rights folks liked the idea that legacy preferences were there to the extent that they could make an argument that, ‘Listen, there are all sorts of preferences in college admissions,’ and so race should be allowed as one of those factors.” But even that financial argument is not well-founded, argues Kahlenberg.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

That’s the argument made by Timothy Law Snyder, president of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, who has been writing and speaking about the issue in recent months. Technology, social media, voting. EdSurge: What’s different about the latest generation of college students in your view?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 5, 2015

Very effective: Argument Wars. Public Policy and the Executive and Legislative Branches Quiz. Public Policy Flashcards. Public Policy Matching. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. These are mostly for MS, a mixture of flashcards, games and simulations. Branches of Power. Civics Game Room.

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ED Surge

JULY 12, 2022

So for this week’s podcast we’re diving into his argument, talking to a philosophy professor who studied with Hussain and regularly teaches the paper to his own students. It seems like there's a lot of common sense to this argument that is very accessible to a non-philosopher. And they might both end up winning, then?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

Over the years, our country has strived to provide a national standard for the quality of education in public schools and multiple administrations have promoted federal initiatives and national goals to define academic outcomes for American students. This is a dilemma. I haven’t seen one of them incorporate self-love as a prioritized outcome.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. Mysa’s curriculum relies on Common Core, the same national standards as public schools, Fiske says. In contrast, many alternatives to public school are blossoming.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2023

Formulaic writing, especially tasks completed within the span of a class period, robs students of the opportunities to consider their audience and think strategically about their argument and voice. Like many teachers who grappled with ChatGPT, my initial concerns were that these moments would become another casualty of AI.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 7, 2017

With the growing interest in coding comes a call for after school tech camps that supersize student enthusiasm for technology. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. public speaking. provide a concluding statement that follows from argument presented. Write an ebook.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

How did public opinion evolve? Throughout this lesson, my students not only learn the content but also develop critical thinking skills as they analyze evidence, put together persuasive arguments and respectfully debate their peers. Torpedoed in May 1915, it caused almost 1,200 civilian casualties but the U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2017

The Socratic Method requires cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, asking and answering questions that stimulate critical thinking and draw out underlying presumptions. The goal has nothing to do with who wins the argument but how evidence and ideas are presented. — image credit: Fresno Public Schools.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Based on data from the 2018-19 school year, there are approximately 200,000 public school teachers in New York state. Quite frankly, this argument relies on decontextualized data to assess student performance. Teachers could, and should, be included in these types of decisions in dialogue with lawmakers and school stakeholders.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

But it’s not because students aren’t good at critical thinking, argues Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. These days all the talk is about ChatGPT and other AI tools, and the regular internet is feeling like the old technology. I mean, that's horrible, horrible advice.

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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Topics covered include citizenship, governance, civil rights, the constitution, politics and public policy, state and local governments, media, news literacy, and many more. Students will learn about the tactics, arguments, key people, and historical events that led to women gaining the vote and they’ll have fun doing it'.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2016

With the growing interest in coding comes a call for after school tech camps that supersize student enthusiasm for learning technology. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. public speaking. provide a concluding statement that follows from argument presented. persuasion.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

I speak and consult nationally on public education, youth development and child well-being, and since March 2020, I have integrated real-time polling into my speaking events, asking thousands of teachers, counselors and administrators about the well-being of their students, families and school communities.

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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. Differential treatment is an example of how economic theories can shape public policies and individual’s opportunities.

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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. There are two key weaknesses to our argument. In most cases, a university degree takes three to four years of study.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2022

It sounds like the main argument against the bill was that each district should decide the issue of start times rather than have a statewide mandate, right? The other key piece is that this is a public health issue. So when you talk about other public health issues like asbestos or lead paint, those are not left to local discretion.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Another common argument is that homework helps students develop skills related to problem-solving, time-management and self-direction. While it’s likely that homework completion signals student engagement, which in turn leads to academic achievement, there’s little evidence to suggest that homework itself improves engagement in learning.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

That’s the argument made by scholar and author Freddie deBoer in his book, “The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice.” That’s the argument made by scholar and author Freddie deBoer in his book, “The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This is a nexus—kids and climate—where research is becoming more and more robust, yet public awareness and understanding lag far behind. One example that's stuck with me is the Pacific Northwest “ heat dome ” last year, when the public pools had to close because the ground around it was unsafe to walk on. That's my argument.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2018

School leaders credit a multi-faceted senior writing project, new curricula, and instructional technology for bringing new students to their doors. explained Mike Nelson, the Director of Curricula and Assessments in the Coeur d’Alene Public School District, “but at the same time, we knew a few key changes would be of benefit to all.”

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2022

SEL and “critical race theory”—a little-understood academic concept that conservatives have capitalized on to stoke fear among parents—have been willfully conflated in recent public discourse by disingenuous, politically motivated agitators , causing hysteria. Like Henny, we must now evaluate the facts around SEL.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 16, 2016

This is a great visual way to act out experiences, teach lessons, share how-tos, make public service announcements, and tell a story from different points of view. It can be used not only for fiction, but narrative, argumentative, and expository writing exercises. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JULY 12, 2021

Technological knowledge and skills which describes the tools (e.g., In the United States, most computing curricula focus on technological knowledge and skills and computational thinking and modeling. The former is important because the economic argument for computing education in schools is the most salient in the United States.

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The Maker Mom

MARCH 18, 2023

In the fast-paced, ever-changing digital landscape, children are exposed to dramatic increases in technological advancement. Technology continues to improve and gives children the opportunity to experience the finest education possible no matter where they are. This benefit simply cannot be overstated.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Our new technology eliminates the need for unsustainable plastic and fluorine coatings in many applications, reducing pollution and human health hazards,” explains Jeffrey. The materials also cost less than plastic, require no new equipment, and use existing production technologies.” This goes hand in hand with ethical thinking.

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Futurum

APRIL 18, 2023

“We’ve seen its power in other fields – for instance, beating the world’s best professional chess or poker players, and enabling potentially transformative technologies such as autonomous vehicles – and it’s clear that ML is driving advancements in science and technology.” They’re at the core of most major advanced technologies.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 23, 2023

This is part of a series about our LLM technology. 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. Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!

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Wisconsin Science and STEM Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

At the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, we see the inherent problem of putting out 25 (!) At its essence, it is pulling in science, technology, and mathematics understanding to solve technical problems in the world around us. Like English, a technological literacy, whether employed or developed, isn’t truly isolated either.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By the end of the interview, Thiel asked him to help him teach a class at Stanford Law School on philosophy and technology, and he hired him as an analyst at his fund. Thiel was trying to change the public conversation about higher education, and at the time, 13 years ago, even practices like gap years were pretty uncommon.

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National Science Foundation

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Serving her school in these multifaceted ways led her to seek a position with a broader impact on elementary mathematics teachers–she became a K-2 mathematics specialist with the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI). After several years with AMSTI, she retired. He also has a M.S.

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