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Teachers Believe That AI Is Here to Stay in Education. How It Should Be Taught Is Debatable.

ED Surge

Zarek Drozda, director of the nonprofit Data Science for Everyone, says his organization has seen interest in offering AI and data science coursework increase among school districts, with the number of states launching data initiatives increasing from one to 29 over the past four years.

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8 Ways to Teach Financial Literacy

Cool Cat Teacher

Look at the FutureSmart Course Free from EVERFI Length of course: 7 modules taking 25 minutes each Grades: 6-8 Languages: English/Spanish Lesson Overview (PDF) Resource #3: SmartEconomics for Middle Schoolers SmartEconomics introduces middle schoolers to understand economics, market forces that impact consumer goods, and key economic concepts.

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What Schools Miss When They’re Missing Relationship Data

ED Surge

Earlier this month, a new study in Nature revealed a key predictor of economic mobility: connectedness. The analysis also yielded a new species of school-level data, charting the degree of economic connectedness within individual high schools and colleges across the country.

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The Role of Mathematics in Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

Finance and Economics: The Art of Numbers In the realms of finance and economics, mathematics is the brush with which professionals paint the picture of the market’s future.

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Here Comes Another Trend in K-12 Science Education: Data Science

Chillax Science

The new trend is data science for teaching and learning. According to the National Academies of Sciences , data science is teaching science with a data mining lens. In other words, creating opportunities in lessons to analyze large groups of data. What exactly is the new trend?

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How scientists learn computing and use LLMs to program: Computing education for scientists and for democracy

Computing Education Research Blog

She had a paper in Harvard Data Science Review last year on how scientists learn computational methods, In the Academy, Data Science Is Lonely: Barriers to Adopting Data Science Methods for Scientific Research. Elle is a computational neuroscientist who decided to go meta.

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Data Science is Needed in the Classroom

CSTEM

Though data science may seem like a popular catchphrase in tech, it’s much more than that. Data science is being used across many industries and is a skill that is rapidly expanding to every career field. What is Data Science. How is Data Science Being Used.