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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

Futurum

We wondered whether there was a link between connections to place and the learning that occurs there.” Why is citizen science important? While formal science education – the science we study in school or college – provides important scientific skills and knowledge, a lot of learning occurs outside of formal settings.

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Urban farming for urban families

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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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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

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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