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New Slate of Inspiring and Engaging Standards-Aligned Content Added to Discovery Education Experience for Back-to-School 2025

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“Meet the Magnets” Virtual Field Trip (Grades K-5) Hosted by Sesame Workshop and the National Science Foundation (NSF), this interactive experience takes young learners to NSFs Magnetic Field Laboratory, igniting their curiosity about the everyday applications of magnet science in our lives.

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How Universities Can Grow a Culture of Academic Innovation

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In 2015 the University of Michigan established the Digital Innovation Greenhouse (DIG) as part of the Office Of Academic Innovation—a group charged with fostering a culture of innovation in learning in order to reimagine the 21st century public research university. Then consider constraints. Welcome talented student contributors.

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Barberton High School Entrusts Metrasens Advanced Detection Technology to Strengthen Security Measures

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BHS Principal Muren emphasized the significance of student participation in security measures, highlighting the school’s commitment to the Sandy Hook Promise and fostering a culture where everyone contributes to ensuring safety.

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STEM Careers Coalition Offering Educators No-Cost Resources to Celebrate Black STEM Leaders During Black History Month

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Representing a range of industry sectors, the STEM Careers Coalition seeks to prepare 10 million students for the future of work by 2025 by providing equitable access to digital content and experiences that engage students in instruction, build foundational STEM knowledge, and develop the critical skills students need for college and career success.

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Graduate Students Want to Solve ‘Wicked Problems.’ Are Universities Delivering?

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Over the past two years, the College Impact Laboratory at The Ohio State University has surveyed incoming Ph.D. Another student expressed that interdisciplinary work “changed my thinking pattern … to a multi-field view” that helped them synthesize between bodies of knowledge and see other facets of the problems they worked on.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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In fact, there have been bigger attempts to build central libraries of them in the past, such as a 2001 project by the the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching called the Knowledge Media Laboratory (which is now defunct). A few repositories like the Open Syllabus Project collect syllabi from around the world.

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The Secret to Learning Any New Language May Be Your Motivation

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In cohorts of six to eight people, they spend seven hours a day in class learning from native speakers how to read, listen and speak, interpret news reports from other nations and understand the practices of foreign cultures. Those who arrive with a love for learning about other people and different cultures are easy to teach, says Sgt.