Miriam
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Students in an environmental program at Madison’s Shabazz high school not only learn about ecology and sustainability first hand. They also engage with the environment through sports, like fly fishing and paddling, that can serve them all their lives. It all started when the science teachers were looking for ways to get students hooked on…
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I must admit that like most people these days, I am quite busy thinking about the impact that AI will have on our lives. Imagining the extent to which it will transform our life is quite difficult because there are many variables that even those who develop it can’t envision yet. While admiring the capabilities…
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation announced a $1.5 million grant from American Student Assistance® (ASA) – a national nonprofit changing the way kids learn about careers and navigate a path to postsecondary education and career success. The grant was designed to address the challenge of access to authentic work-based learning and soft or employability…
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Luther Jackson Middle School in Falls Church Virginia allows its students to choose their own projects as part of their ESTEEM Center for Equity in science, technology, engineering, english and math program. In one of these projects, engineering students are running a futuristic farming operation. In an ordinary-looking shed, plastic towers are bursting with green…
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A group of 10 students from Giovanni Curmi Higher Secondary School, Naxxar, recently took part in a five-day student mobility experience in Turin, Italy, as part of the Erasmusplus project Augmented Reality Toolkit for Sustainable Education (ARTse). In this three year collaboration between Giovanni Curmi Higher Secondary School and Istituto Superiore Tommaso D’Oria from Italy,…
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The Billings Career Center in Montana and NASA are collaborating to provide high school students with an opportunity to create projects that may end up helping out astronauts in space. The collaboration with NASA started in 2015 allowing high school students from Montana and Wyoming to create engineering projects to help NASA’s astronauts. Students in…
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The Toshiba America Foundation (TAF) is offering grants for projects that use project-based learning to teach STEM. The program seeks innovative ideas for improving classroom-based STEM learning, with a requirement that teachers use project-based learning to implement these ideas and that they have measurable outcomes. Applications for the TAF grant program are open now and…
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Students in PPOS middle school spent the year studying desertification, water as a precious resource, and the impacts humans have on water quality. As a conclusion of their studies, field work and the help of experts, students went on to propose projects around water safety and health, flooding and drought effects on crops and ranches,…
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Recent national surveys of young people have shown alarming increases in the prevalence of mental health challenges— in 2019, one in three high school students and half of female students reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, an overall increase of 40% from 2009. Most people would rightfully associate this state of affairs to the…
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Pagosa Peak Open School advisors Kelle Bruno and Katie Young worked for the past few months with students on the creation, illustration and presentation of their poems, ending it not only with the celebration, but also bound books for families containing all the poetry from the class. Student assignment was to make observations about why…
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Kaie Quigley, a senior at Lasell (Mass.) University, who grew up in West Wardsboro and attended Leland & Gray Union Middle and High School, presented his ‘Red for Threads’ project to the Red Sox foundation executives and was selected as the best among seven groups from his class at Lasell, where he is majoring in…
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ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI that is capable of writing essays, solving science and math problems and producing working computer code, was released in November 2022. It immediately generated speculation about a new era of rampant cheating and even the death of student generated essays, or education itself. A few school districts banned it…