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A large nationwide study has found that teaching ninth graders to maintain a “growth mindset” toward learning—stressing that their minds are like ...
This blog post was inspired by our work at the Dagstuhl seminar “Notional Machines and Programming Language Semantics in Education”. We spent wonderful five days discussing the definiti…
In our work with educators, schools, students and communities, Learning for Justice seeks to uphold the mission of the Southern Poverty Law Center: to be a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance the human rights of all people.
Empowering teachers & students to think critically about history & to understand the impact of their choices.
This spring, I taught a new Freshman Seminar at Princeton ( FRS 154) called “Weird Data,” a CDH course sponsored by the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning. The goal of the course was to provide a wide-ranging introduction to the world of data in all its forms, ideas, and, well, weirdness. A key idea in this semester-long exploration was that data is not a single thing, nor is it usually as simple as we might assume.
Lots of useful gankable learning goals.
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This article was recommended all over my twitter the other day, and the topic looks pretty interesting. So let’s launch a new (hopefully) regular feature, Behind the Paywall. …
Computational Social Science (SOC 596), Fall 2016 - soc596_f2016/slides at master · msalganik/soc596_f2016
Greetings, educators! Are you watching in sheer terror as BigTech's four horsemen Surveillance, Exploitation, Manipulation, and Cataclysmic Hubris gallop wildly down the information superhighway,
New analysis finds that education researchers, unlike scholars in many other disciplines, don't check one another's work.