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Howard Gardner on His Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Lessons for COVID-19 Era

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But today we’re talking with someone who has a history of shaking up the narrative when it comes to talking about intelligence. It’s Howard Gardner, best known for his theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI). In it, he reflects on the interdisciplinary work he did that led to his theory of multiple intelligences.

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5 models that prioritize learner-centered education

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Conventional schooling often leaves students disillusioned, questioning their intelligence and value as it is framed by a system that needs an overhaul. Its learners receive all of their core academic content–English, history, social studies, and math–through mastery-based online courses.

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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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Systemic Change Means Rethinking College and Career Prep. We’ve Done It Before.

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An unprecedented number of people are unemployed, while artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation are already changing the job market. To facilitate more authentic learning, many states have aligned their own standards, and developed frameworks that foster interdisciplinary teaching and learning.

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University Data Science Programs Turn to Ethics and the Humanities

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Data scientist Mark Madsen has been programming and crunching data long before buzzwords like artificial intelligence and machine learning were common. But he says the conversations often fell off once he suggested adding subjects like history of science, philosophy or communication.

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Smithsonian Forms ‘Strategic Alliance’ With Carnegie Learning to Build New STEM Products

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The goal, she says, is to “bring our collective expertise to create blended, interdisciplinary, and multimodal learning environments.” The deal between Carnegie and Smithsonian marries two household names with an established history of developing and disseminating research-backed educational materials.

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Conrad Wolfram: Let’s Build a New Math Curriculum That Assumes Computers Exist

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Are a lot of the problems that you present interdisciplinary by nature? Math is this general-purpose subject at school, but if it isn’t interdisciplinary, well, why not? If it isn’t serving history, English, geography and all the other subjects, why not? Absolutely. It might be looking at the linguistics of a novel.

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