MIT following Harvard's lead here

Khan Kids got my daughter wanting to learn Creole 😮

Empowering Education Leaders: A Toolkit for Safe, Ethical, and Equitable AI Integration (Department of Education, Office of Education Technology)

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Just noticed Chrome dev tools has #gemini built in to help with CSS. I haven't had a great experience with #ChatGPT when it comes to CSS help; curious whether Gemini will be any better.

The message that needs to be shared again and again!!!! Cause so many don't learn 😢

#Japan
#travel
#CommonSense

Has #science ever been apolitical? Time to ditch the idea it is and get into advocacy before others write the story - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

MIT announced that it would eliminate tuition costs next fall for all undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 per year — following a national movement to try to make higher education more accessible. nyti.ms/3V6GVia

One of the things I love about primary school here in Japan is that they really emphasize understanding the role of the local community, and one's own role within it.

My daughter goes on regular field trips to local establishments - small businesses, preschools, even Shinto shrines. She learns

My daughter is learning her times tables in school, and I’m supposed to help her drill. Cool, I got this.

But it turns out in Japan, they have to learn a very specific way of pronouncing every equation. Sometimes you say the “equals” as “ga,” but other times you just omit it! Sometimes instead of

A record 146,000 public school students in New York City were homeless last year, data shows. Almost all of those students were living either in shelters across the city or “doubled up” temporarily with friends or family.

If you're familiar with #Japanese, you know there are a lot of borrowed words that came from English. For example:

corn -> kōn
computer -> kompyūtā
label -> raberu

One of my favorite things is when my #bilingual kids learn the Japanese (borrowed) version first, and then at some point try to

Nine out of ten Amazon addictions can prob be traced back to the Scholastic Book Fair.

What's a nonfiction #book that does a good job covering topics or research from your field? Looking to expand my #reading. Or just a good book in general, preferably nonfiction? 🧪👩‍🔬🥽 #chemsky #physics #biology #chemistry #education

When I tell people I played basketball at MIT, their first reaction almost always is, "MIT has sports??"

Yes they do, and they're damn good at a lot of them. The women's bball program is a lot stronger now than when I was there, and there's some real talent that's been coming through the program.

Question for #teachers especially #mathteachers: why are kids required to copy down the actual word problem question for homework? As in, not just rewriting it as an equation, but word for word copying the question. Is this meant to help with the understanding somehow?

the portland crowd is cheering louder for yuki kawamura than they have all night

absolute madness every time he touches the ball

listen to them after he makes a free throw

Anyone have a favorite #teacher story? I'll start.

I took Calculus at a summer school program, and it remains one of my all-time favorite classes. Part of it was the material, sure, but a large part was how my teacher framed the lectures. (1/5)

#teachers #edusky #stem #mathteachers

The co-inventors of Calculus

#edtech #teachers #historyofmathematics #isaacnewton #gottfriedwilhelmleibniz #blabberize