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Meet The Newest Liberal Art: Coding

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To answer that question, faculty at The New School have developed a suite of interdisciplinary classes such as “Anthropology of Networks,” “Generative Media and Artificial Intelligence,” and “An Interactive History of Computers Doing Bad Things,” which covers viruses, botnets and ransomware. Anderson says.

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What All High Schools Can Draw From Career and Technical Education Programs

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Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. When students can understand how one topic might be covered in English, History and Science, they’re able to grasp it more deeply.

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Student Push Back Is Frustrating, but It Made Me a Better Teacher

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Carlin was explaining how to make history relevant to all students, whether it's the history of hip-hop music, the evolution of the coffee industry or a person you pass on the street. What stayed with me that day: everything and everyone has a history—but history doesn't matter to students if it's not relevant to their own lives.

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How to Weave Advisory into Academics — Plus 10 Resources for Teaching SEL

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Life is interdisciplinary, and while our education system has finally started to acknowledge this (e.g. Here’s how it might work for an English teacher: Imagine you’ve assigned students a persuasive essay and provided them with a rubric communicating academic expectations. In “the real world” as teachers say, challenges are complex.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

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They’re all adults enrolled in the university’s online Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program. Should their essays have a thesis statement? She promises to share an example essay soon. That they devote days, years, lifetimes to understanding a sliver of biology, physics, history. They ask to see an example paper.

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

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The History of Citizen Science Science before the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was carried out by interested individuals whose curiosities in the natural world were self-funded. Practical Learning Scientific research involves several ground realities and interdisciplinary aspects that students and the general public are not exposed to.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

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public education system has evolved throughout its history, school libraries have also developed with a consistent central goal: to give students the best opportunity to succeed academically. As the U.S.

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