The promise of the "learn to code" movement
This week, educators, students and the public around the world are participating in Computer Science Education Week by organizing and leading one-hour coding tutorials.
This week, educators, students and the public around the world are participating in Computer Science Education Week by organizing and leading one-hour coding tutorials.
Education
Dec 4, 2018
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Melissa C. Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Focused Inquiry in Virginia Commonwealth University's University College, was initially skeptical of the Harry Potter phenomenon, even as her nieces ...
Education
Nov 15, 2018
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Mathematics is causing headaches in schools across Canada, Australia and many other parts of the world. Teachers in both Canada and Australia feel neither competent nor confident in math and, frankly, they are the first to ...
Education
Nov 15, 2018
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This has been a terrible year for science and evidence-based decision making, which are the newest casualties of the growing wave of populism in North America where "postmodern thought … is being used to undermine scientific ...
Social Sciences
Oct 4, 2018
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"When will I ever use this?" It's a question math and science teachers hear all the time from their high school students.
Education
Sep 12, 2018
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When most of us think about learning, we imagine a teacher and a classroom. In reality most of the things we know, and a great number of the skills we acquire as children and adults, are learned outside the classroom – ...
Social Sciences
Jan 8, 2018
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The ability to argue, to express our reasoning to others, is one of the defining features of what it is to be human.
Computer Sciences
Dec 18, 2017
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Religious beliefs are not linked to intuition or rational thinking, according to new research by the universities of Coventry and Oxford.
Social Sciences
Nov 8, 2017
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Anyone who knows about the educational underachievement of boys compared to girls will have been surprised by the headlines about the 2017 A-level results. The Telegraph wrote that "boys are beating girls" and spoke of a ...
Social Sciences
Aug 25, 2017
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Dogmatic individuals hold confidently to their beliefs, even when experts disagree and evidence contradicts them. New research from Case Western Reserve University may help explain the extreme perspectives, on religion, politics ...
Social Sciences
Jul 26, 2017
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