ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

The technology that tracks digital records has spurred a cryptocurrency gold rush and an NFT explosion. Should local communities determine how education gets funded and who has access to public schools —or should the federal government intervene? That would be the block chain. I am really inspired by this idea of bottom-up learning.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

The researchers are looking at public high schools with higher-than- average proportions of students from low-income backgrounds and students of color. The most important thing for me is to do social science that can be replicated by other people,” Schneider says, adding she hopes more HBCUs will join the project.

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ED Surge

JULY 26, 2023

I am a social sciences and Spanish teacher and a mother of three children, and with that comes the social and self-imposed pressure to show that all the pieces of my life fit together like a shiny mosaic. I would like to believe this is a personal battle, but this drive toward perfectionism also impacts our students.

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Computing Education Research Blog

MAY 30, 2023

Last year, Tammy Shreiner and I published an article in the British Journal of Educational Technology , “The information won’t just sink in: Helping teachers provide technology-assisted data literacy instruction in social studies.” (I We structured our work and our evaluation around the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2020

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.” Here are five ways edtech can kick up your social studies program: Simulations and games.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 2, 2022

There are also several community colleges, public universities, and government-funded institutes with low tuition fees and great scholarship programs that you can apply to. . are STEM courses, business management, mathematics, social sciences, and liberal arts. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Deep learning — technology able to automatically learn from a large set of digital media and apply what has been learnt to manipulate or create sophisticated media. While some are easy to spot, the advent of more advanced fake-making technologies, such as those behind ‘deepfakes’, is making it harder to tell fact from fiction.

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Futurum

JUNE 30, 2022

HOW DOES PUBLIC TRANSPORT AFFECT INEQUALITY? We might not always be aware of it, but efficient transport structures and services are vital for social inclusion. For those without private cars, or who are unable to walk, this means relying on public transport systems. HOW DOES PUBLIC TRANSPORT AFFECT INEQUALITY?

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Futurum

AUGUST 16, 2022

Published: Love them or hate them, chatbots are having an increasing role in the technological space, now that artificial intelligence has developed to a stage where they can be genuinely useful in fields such as healthcare, defence and finance. I, chatbot: How ‘human’ should chatbots be? TALK LIKE A COMPUTER SCIENTIST.

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Futurum

JUNE 22, 2023

This meant that women in the Tertulias groups gained practical technology skills in addition to opportunities for social interaction. I would never have discovered anthropology if I hadn’t done that.” • Many universities offer degrees in anthropology, but other social science degrees could lead to a career in the field.

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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

"Science.gov makes it possible for users to search over 60 databases, over 2,200 websites, and over 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information in many formats, including full-text documents, citations, scientific data supporting federally funded research, and multimedia.

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Futurum

APRIL 12, 2023

Make the most of your time at high school to develop skills such as public speaking, teamwork and leadership. I began my career in the technical side of GIS, but I have been wooed to the social sciences. In high school, I focused on math and science as my main interests were in geometry and biology.

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Futurum

JUNE 21, 2022

One important issue facing the next generation of legal researchers will be the impact of technology , potentially including virtual trials. At school or college, study social science or humanities subjects (such as law, sociology, politics, anthropology, history or human geography). • That has led to more real-world impact.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Explore careers in cognitive neuroscience • The Collaborative Program in Neuroscience (CPIN) at the University of Toronto has various public outreach programmes, including NeuroSci 101, an annual lecture series for high school students. I experienced collaborations between biology, engineering and social sciences with a playful attitude.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Whether we view them as cute, forgetful, bad with technology or unproductive, these stereotypes are harmful to older people and ourselves. With their help, she is now disseminating her findings to nurses and the public, to improve institutional and societal attitudes towards ageing. How can we combat ageism in society and healthcare?

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Futurum

MARCH 21, 2023

Our team includes social science and humanities researchers who look at the policies and implications of synthetic biology,” says Ian. They have expertise in important areas such as bioethics and technology law.” I did a basic science degree, covering plant and animal biology, ecology and molecular biology.

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Futurum

APRIL 26, 2022

When desktop computers first entered mainstream use in the 90s, many people felt too intimidated to get onboard with the new technology. Keith collecting fonts in public signage. When desktop computers first entered mainstream use in the 90s, many people felt too intimidated to get onboard with the new technology. Pinterest.

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Maydm

JUNE 11, 2021

Dave Franchino and I had the opportunity to talk with Winnie Karanja, Founder and Executive Director of Maydm , a Madison-based organization which provides girls and youth of color in grades six to 12 skill- based training in the technology sector. As a high school student, Winnie had a passion for both math and the social sciences.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This is the first of a series of pieces I’m planning in connection with the upcoming 20th anniversary of the publication of A New Kind of Science. “There’s a Whole New Field to Build…” For me the story began nearly 50 years ago —with what I saw as a great and fundamental mystery of science.

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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 always radiated a certain adventurous joy—together with supreme, almost-childlike confidence.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But he continued to write physics papers, which ranged over many different areas, occasionally touching thermodynamics, though most often in the service of answering a “general science” question—like how old the Sun is (he estimated 32,000 years from thermodynamic arguments, though of course without knowledge of nuclear reactions).

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Futurum

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The liberal arts consist of the natural sciences, like biology, ecology and neuroscience, formal sciences, like physics and maths, social sciences, and the humanities. Other skills that will help you become a successful anthropologist include research, writing and public speaking skills.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2023

Palaeontology – Dr Davide Foffa is using modern technology to study ancient fossils, enabling him to uncover the anatomy and evolution of extinct reptiles. Students are encouraged to analyse data from the US General Social Survey to explore how public opinions on different topics have changed.

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