Futurum

MAY 3, 2023

SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts Published: Social sciences, humanities and the arts are vital for addressing complex challenges, but do young people truly understand their value? What is SHAPE? Modes are the ‘building blocks’ of learner resources.

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Computing Education Research Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

My activities in computing education these days are organized around two main projects: Defining computing education for undergraduates in the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and Arts (see earlier blog post referencing this effort ); Participatory design of Teaspoon languages (mentioned most recently in this blog post ).

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Economics — a branch of social science that studies the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services, as well as a huge variety of other complex issues of vital concern to society. Professor Birgitta Rabe is using this data to inform government support for children’s well-being. TALK LIKE AN … ECONOMIST.

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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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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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Scientix

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It serves a community of medium socio-economic status and has been recognized on the national and international arena for its various projects and activities, both online and in-person. Our curriculum is student-centered, with a focus on project-based learning and problem-solving.

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Futurum

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The total economic cost of the Black Summer fires has been calculated at around $80 billion, making them the most costly natural disaster in Australia’s history. This is particularly true for economic impacts, such as the loss of tourism, the destruction of farm crops and damage to local shops and businesses.

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STEMe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Like economics, linguistics can also be broken down into micro linguistics and macro linguistics. Since linguistics is considered a human social science, some unique subtopics within this field include phonetics and pragmatics. It is also used to comprehend different cultures.

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Futurum

JUNE 30, 2022

The students who participated in the Peru Sanitation Initiative had an incredible learning experience, both in terms of practical engineering application and cultural exchange. RESEARCH PROJECT: Developing an interactive teaching tool that describes resistance evolution and basic economics of insecticide-based pest management.

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Futurum

APRIL 12, 2023

Social characteristics include population demographics, such as age, race, languages spoken and level of education. I also teach GIS and data science classes, all with a geophysical component, and conduct research in these topics. It was powerful to learn that what I had been running away from was actually an asset to me.

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Futurum

JUNE 22, 2023

Some groups read books and listen to songs, to both stay connected with their Mexican heritage and learn about American culture. The skills you learn by studying anthropology will make you attractive to employers in a wide range of different careers. Why should you study anthropology? I’m not even a medical anthropologist.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

But by now there are endless examples of machine learning systems that do well at reproducing human judgement in lots of domains. And that term immediately brings to mind wages, economics, etc. And, yes, plenty of what people do (at least in the world as it is today) is driven by issues of economics. But plenty is also not.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Deepfake — manipulation of existing digital media (image, video and/or audio) – e.g., by swapping faces and changing voices – or creation of new media, typically using machine learning-based techniques such as deep learning. Machine learning — AI algorithms and systems able to automatically learn from data to perform a specific task.

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The Maker Mom

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We cover every aspect of STEM, including preschool through 12th-grade education, college, and career, as well as discuss some of the social and economic challenges that STEM is experiencing. For instance, in the social sciences, women hold an impressive 64% share of the workforce. This is an increase of 45% since 1970.

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Futurum

APRIL 19, 2022

The more we look, the earlier we find evidence for the complex social, technological, economic and ideological lives of past peoples,” Lisa explains. The more we look, the earlier we find evidence for the complex social, technological, economic and ideological lives of past peoples,” Lisa explains. HUMAN SOCIETIES.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 3, 2023

At 15th Street Farm in Florida, USA, Emmanuel Roux and Professor David Himmelgreen run an education project to help local families learn about their local food systems and make healthier food choices. What do students learn? The outdoor learning results in greater student engagement and impacts human and environmental wellness.

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National Science Foundation

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In teaching, the implicit bias, automatic thoughts, views, or judgments we may have about students can deprive them of opportunities and learning experiences. Implicit bias develops over a lifetime and is described as attitudes or stereotypes that affect our judgements or assessments of others (NEA Center for Social Justice, 2021).

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

“It may not change people’s social circumstances immediately,” he says, “but it can change the way they see themselves, which can bring increased well-being and potentially lead to positive changes.”. FIELD OF RESEARCH: Arts and Social Science. Growing up in a world of fear, the young people did not learn to sing and dance.

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Futurum

JUNE 21, 2022

DR ABENAA OWUSU-BEMPAH Associate Professor of Law, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. I went to college and studied GCSE sociology where I learned that kids like me were set up to fail. Learn more here. As lecturers, we can learn a great deal from students. MEET THE ‘PROSECUTING RAP’ NETWORK.

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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. So now what do we mean by science, and by “doing science”? So what’s the analog for us here?

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

And so it was that I set about running programs that I later learned were a simplified version of what had been called “cellular automata” before. Nothing I’ve learned in these 36 years has dulled the strength and beauty of rule 30 and those early discoveries about complexity. There are exciting—and surprising—things.

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ED Surge

JULY 20, 2022

This second cohort includes eight talented educators teaching at public, charter, independent and parochial schools, from Hawaii to Michigan: Whitney Aragaki (she/they), high school biology and environmental science teacher at Wai?kea Avery Thrush (she/her), sixth grade science teacher at STEM Prep Academy in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Ed was someone who wanted to independently figure things out for himself, and delighted in presenting his often somewhat-outlandish conclusions—whether about technology, science, business or the world—with dramatic showman-like panache. He used to like to tell people I’d learned a lot from him. And Ed was now one of them.

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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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Futurum

MAY 11, 2023

Social science for social change: the story of marriage equality in the US Published: For centuries, gay people have suffered discrimination, prejudice and persecution. How did social science influence the fight for marriage equality? Most social science does not change policy right away,” says Michael. “I

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Maydm

JUNE 11, 2021

As a high school student, Winnie had a passion for both math and the social sciences. Her teachers pushed her into the “easier” path of social sciences rather than encourage her interest in STEM subjects. And throughout my sort of high school experience, I’d been, you know, passionate about social sciences.

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Futurum

AUGUST 29, 2023

Students can explore whether a sphere is a 2D or 3D shape and learn how, to a topologist, a coffee cup is the same shape as a donut! Students explore what they can learn from traditional stories and write their own stories to educate others about their local environment. Geometry – Dr Sam Ballas is studying the geometry of surfaces.

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