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5 Ways Edtech Enhances Social Studies Lessons

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According to Wikipedia: “In the United States education system, social studies is the integrated study of multiple fields of social science and the humanities, including history, geography, and political science.” In MS and HS, it expands to cover science, mathematics, civics, economics, and maybe geography.

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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

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Despite hailing from vastly different geographies and circumstances, the dozens of educators we talked with shared that they often struggled in their own school communities with feeling both hyper-visible and invisible as Asian Americans. A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. on March 21, 2021.

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Readers Respond: Does Fixing the Leaky STEM Pipeline Require Calculus To Adapt?

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Memorizing formulas and equations is about as useful as memorizing poems as way of learning to write in English. A reader from Illinois : “One of my favorite things about learning calculus the last year and half was the application to the real world. In MBA school it was only used in an economics course. That was geography.”

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Upskilling Trend Brings Coupons, ‘Flash Sales’ and Other Marketing Gimmicks to Higher Ed

ED Surge

Limited time offers like flash sales are just one example of the kinds of marketing gimmicks that have become common in the past few years as the internet has become flooded with online course providers promising to help people learn new skills to get ahead in their careers or personal lives.

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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

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SpringerOpen SpringerOpen features research a wide variety of peer-reviewed research articles spanning different disciplines including social sciences, humanities, science, technology, medicine, economics, biomedicine, chemistry, computer science, psychology, and many more. You can browse its journals by subject or by alphabetical order.

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Why This Mid-Sized North Carolina District Is Rethinking Its Approach to Edtech Procurement

ED Surge

Here, she explains how Course of Mind is helping her district strategically incorporate learning technology into their curriculum. EdSurge: What led you to enroll in the Launch into Learning Sciences course ? We're about 60 percent economically disadvantaged here in the district. So, we do try to look at equity.

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Top 5 Trends in Virtual Reality for Education

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Its actively reshaping education by making learning more interactive, engaging, and hands-on. A study published in Computers & Education found that students who used VR for STEM learning scored 76% higher on conceptual understanding tests compared to students using traditional learning methods.