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Pause and Think: “Why do we really need sleep?” Imagine you’ve been up all night revising for an important test. Right now, the test questions are facing you with intimidating blank spaces for you to fill in your answers. All the questions seem familiar but you just feel too tired to think clearly. Towards the […]
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Libraries collect the vast stores of human knowledge and imagination. A library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing. It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical building or room, or a virtual space, or both. A library’s collection can
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Getting the most out of a mathematics textbook will require more than just skimming through the text. Below are some tips for helping you get the most from your mathematics text. 1. Focus on concepts, not exercises. The most important material in a math textbook is found in the prose, not in the exercises at
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If you ask a student what makes him or her successful in school, you probably won’t hear about some fantastic new book or video lecture series. Most likely you will hear something like, “It was all Mr. Jones. He just never gave up on me.” What students take away from a successful education usually centers
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Teachers are the arbitrators of knowledge and culture. Knowledge and culture are each dynamic, endlessly crashing and churning. This makes teaching significantly important and difficult work and can leave teaching—as a craft—wide-eyed in response. Worse, those outside the bubble of education can understandably struggle to understand the problem. What are they teaching in those schools
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What strategies can we use to improve vocabulary? What does the research say? According to Jane Harley, Strategy Director for UK Education at Oxford University Press, “Language is at the heart of education and we believe that more needs to be done to address the issue throughout school and give teachers support to make a difference
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How to create smooth transitions That might sound odd – of course schools are ready for transition, that’s what they exist for. But the point is more subtle, and it forms the first of ten points/tips I’d like to make. 1. Have realistic expectations Schools need to be ready for the children who will actually
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Every year, it seems increasingly difficult to predict what tomorrow’s workplace will look like. With the advent of each new technology—like AI, automation, VR/AR, and nanotechnology—comes economic shifts that demand different skills from employees and creates new challenges for both employers and educators. Working in tech and media for the past 20 years, I’ve seen some of
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Better Futures for the Next Generation It’s no surprise that careers are becoming more focused in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. According to Edutopia, 80 percent of the fastest growing careers in the US require employees to have some form of STEM education. The U.S. Department of Commerce has reported that over the past ten
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A hackathon is an event at which teams of programmers and designers collaborate for a short period of time on a project. Typically, these hackathons are competitions, ending with a panel of judges selecting the winning hack. Hackathons are usually judged in one of two ways: through demos or “Science Fairs.” With demos, each team gets a
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