ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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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? Society depends on creatives just as much as scientists.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2023

candidates at MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten research group, say it all started with a single piece of feedback: “Just make learning fun.” Not an ideal conversation right after sessions on mindfulness, but the husband-and-wife researcher duo did take away two key lessons from the students’ candor.

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Computing Education Research Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Dr. Bahare Naimipour successfully defended her Engineering Education Research dissertation this last August 2024, Supporting Social Studies Data Literacy Education: Design of Technology Tools and Insights from Expert Teachers and Teacher Change Journeys. Bahare, me, and Tammy Shreiner. DL is part of K-12 U.S.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

He has established the Music and Mental Health Research Clinic to explore the relationships between music and mental health and to develop ways of integrating music into healthcare services. On the healthcare side, we raise awareness among health and social care professionals about the benefits of community-based musical activities.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 28, 2017

Her article today can be summed up by a line in the last paragraph: “ Technology is not your enemy…” Educators aim to equip students with an understanding of the world, its fragility, & opportunities, by teaching them various common subjects like math, language, or science. 1) Student-Centered Teaching.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

At the University of Alberta in Canada, Dr Sherry Dahlke and Anndrea Vogt are exploring the impacts of ageism on older people and developing educational resources to teach student nurses how to best care for older patients. Learning by example Social learning theory suggests that how we learn is influenced by how people act around us.

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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.

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Futurum

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Ben is working with Dr Julia Parrish, a professor at the University of Washington, who is also the Executive Director of the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST), an environmental, hands-on citizen science programme. Citizen science allows people to choose what project appeals to them, and engage in ways suited to them.

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STEM Education Guide

MARCH 9, 2023

Recently, five of the eight Ivy League universities have reclassified their economics degrees from social science to science, technology, math, and engineering (STEM). It’s a curriculum that revolves around the idea of educating students in four particular disciplines; mathematics , technology, science, and engineering.

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CoderZ

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

As many states mandate CS in the classroom, schools should offer courses that not only include CS and teach coding, but also emphasize the importance of ethics, social responsibility, and the cultural context in which technology operates. This approach helps students understand how CS can be a force for positive change in society.

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Computing Education Research Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Snow was a scientist who bemoaned the split between science and humanities in Western culture. Elliot wanted us to think about “Who could use what we have to teach, but might not even enter our classroom?”. He was foreshadowing modern computational science, and in particular, computational social science.

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Futurum

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Researchers from the FLARE Wildfire Research Group at The University of Melbourne in Australia are developing models that can help predict where wildfires are most likely to occur and how fires behave under different weather conditions. The fire table is often used for teaching purposes.

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Futurum

JUNE 30, 2022

By combining engineering and human rights disciplines, he is researching the links between access to transport and the inequalities facing Peruvians today. This required data about social factors in each district, such as the population age structure, level of employment and literacy rate. This process is known as peripheralisation.

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Futurum

APRIL 26, 2022

Linguistic anthropologists study the nature of language and how humans use it in their everyday lives, but Keith is taking his research in an unusual direction. If fonts have a social, cultural and political force, who is facilitating and managing that force, and how are they doing it? WHAT IS KEITH’S RESEARCH REVEALING?

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

This is why Professor Oscar Odena, an interdisciplinary researcher at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, decided to create a global network of people studying social music projects from Colombia in South America to the DRC in Africa. By 2019, Oscar had already spent a lot of time researching social music projects.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 3, 2023

15th Street Farm in Florida is home to a nutrition education program (NEP) designed to reduce food insecurity in the local area by teaching local children and their families about their local food systems. The 15th Street Farm NEP teaches its students about the links between agriculture, nutrition and wellness. What do students learn?

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Futurum

APRIL 12, 2023

Dr Elsa Anderson Role: Assistant Professor, Programme in Environmental Science Institution: Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) I teach an urban ecology class that aims to engage students in learning about nature where they live and understanding the interactions between people and their surroundings. I love being outside.

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Futurum

MAY 26, 2022

I use many techniques in my research,” explains Ashley, “because each provides a different type of information.” I use many techniques in my research,” explains Ashley, “because each provides a different type of information.” FIELD OF RESEARCH : Evolutionary Biology. FUNDER : National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Futurum

JUNE 21, 2022

Eithne Quinn, a professor of cultural studies at the University of Manchester, is an expert on race, justice and culture, and she has shed light on this problem through her research project, “Prosecuting Rap: Criminal Justice and UK Black Youth Expressive Culture”. FIELDS OF RESEARCH: American Studies, Criminology, Cultural Studies.

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Futurum

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It is an incredibly useful field with a wide range of applications from biological and social sciences to computer animation and finance. Applied mathematics is essential to solving real world problems in many areas, and Anotida’s work goes far beyond his own research in theoretical and computational biology.

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CoderZ

MARCH 20, 2024

To accomplish this, schools need to implement teaching methodologies to meet students’ different needs. Applications like CoderZ that use game-based learning and research driven curricula are designed from the ground up to enable STEM learning for all students.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Shujun is Professor of Cyber Security and Director of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) at the University of Kent, where many researchers are actively researching on understanding, detection and prevention of online false information and digital data deception. Pathway from school to Cyber Security.

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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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Computing Education Research Blog

MAY 30, 2023

The end goal was easy to describe: we wanted social studies teachers to teach data literacy. Teachers are teaching data literacy, or they’re not. When we started collaborating together, we looked for a theoretical model could inform our work. But it’s hard to measure progress towards that big, high-level goal.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

And so it was that in 1985 I began to promote the idea of a new field of “complex systems research”, or, for short “complexity”—fueled by the discoveries I’d made about things like cellular automata. And while they used computers as practical tools, they never made the jump to seeing computation as a core paradigm for thinking about science.

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Futurum

JUNE 22, 2023

Over four years, the team is recruiting 60 Mexican immigrant women a year, 30 of whom are randomly assigned to attend a weekly Tertulias group and 30 of whom are randomly assigned to the ‘control arm’ of the research project in which they do not receive peer support. I didn’t start out as a health researcher,” says Janet.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Regardless of whether differential treatment is considered fair, the efficiency rationale gives researchers and policymakers another way to look at how and why public policies should consider socio-economic factors. How does economics combine mathematics and social science?

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STEM Education Guide

JULY 4, 2022

Research has suggested that children lose interest in science by the time they are 12-13 years of age. In reality, almost all industries need a branch of STEM to conduct Research and Development work and maintain existing technology. In our article, is nursing STEM? We answer all your questions.

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Futurum

MAY 16, 2022

Teach the Future is a student-led movement, campaigning for broad climate education in the UK. HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED WITH TEACH THE FUTURE? UKSCN was campaigning for youth strikes, votes for 16-year-olds and above, and adequate teaching on climate education. That’s why I joined Teach the Future.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Addo-Danso , of the CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana , are collaborating on a global project that seeks to monitor the canopy temperature of forests. Sophie is an environmental scientist based at the University of Plymouth in the UK, while Shalom is an ecologist based at the CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana in Africa.

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Futurum

AUGUST 29, 2023

At Futurum, we work with researchers and academics from all disciplines to create classroom resources for schools. Each article explains the researcher’s work in a clear and engaging way and provides advice for students interested in pursuing a career in the field. Whatever subject you teach, we are sure to have resources for you!

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Futurum

APRIL 19, 2022

FIELDS OF RESEARCH: Prehistoric Archaeology and Geoarchaeology. FIELDS OF RESEARCH: Prehistoric Archaeology and Anthropological Archaeology. FUNDERS: National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK (AHRC UKRI), The University of Tulsa.

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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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STEM Education Guide

APRIL 18, 2022

Before we get into how to teach the scientific method , let’s cover why science is important in the first place. Why Science is Important. STEM, the fusion of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, is gaining unbelievable credibility in its necessity for growth and development among our youth.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

“Lick” Licklider —who persuaded Ed to join BBN to “teach them about computers”. It didn’t really come to light until he was at BBN, but while at Lincoln Lab Ed had made what would eventually become his first lasting contribution to computer science. And Ed said out of the blue: “I’ll make a deal with you.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

He starts off by saying about Carnot’s book: The idea which serves as a basis of his researches seems to me to be both fertile and beyond question; his demonstrations are founded on the absurdity of the possibility of creating motive power or heat out of nothing. with respect to the variables defining the configuration of the system).

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