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Richard Feynman On Knowing Versus Understanding

TeachThought

Richard Feynman On Knowing Versus Understanding by TeachThought Staff Who is Richard Feynman? Richard Feynman, born in 1918, was a theoretical physicist whose work in quantum mechanics earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. According to nobelprize.org , Feynman obtained his B.Sc. in 1939 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and studied “at Princeton University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1942. “He was Research Assistant at Princeton (1940-1941), Professor of Theor

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OPINION: Banning legacy admissions will deliver another blow to the children of Black alumni

The Hechinger Report

As we made our way down one of the city streets that bisect the Yale campus, cars zooming by, my daughter Mari swept her wide-eyed gaze across the grand Gothic cathedrals that are Yale’s residential colleges. “I didn’t expect it to be so … fancy,” she said, her voice filled with wonder. She was six, and I knew “fancy” was her word for impressive, extravagant.

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Google AI project against Climate Change

O-Level Geography

Amazing how technology such as Google AI projects can help in mitigating and adapting to climate change. How does technology help to mitigate and adapt to climate change? Land 1. AnthroKrishi, utilises AI and satellite imagery to map critical information about individual farms, aiding in informed decisions around crop planting, optimising crop yields and resource usage. 2.

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Trigger for lesson on tourism

Geography Teacher Sharing

Gotten my students to share their ideal holiday. To make it more immersive, I gotten them to take a picture of themselves and then superimposed their picture over a holiday destination of their choice using remove.bg Instruction for the photo. a. Download the background of a tourist destination you dream to be at. b. Take a picture of yourself and goto [link] and remove the background of your picture. c.

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Vague school rules at the root of millions of student suspensions

The Hechinger Report

A Rhode Island student smashed a ketchup packet with his fist, splattering an administrator. Another ripped up his school work. The district called it “destruction of school property.” A Washington student turned cartwheels while a PE teacher attempted to give instructions. A pair of Colorado students slid down a dirt path despite a warning. An Ohio 12th grader refused to work while assigned to the in-school suspension room.

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Hechinger’s school discipline project: How we did it

The Hechinger Report

The Hechinger Report spent the last year investigating a major subset of school discipline: suspensions and expulsions for vague, subjective categories like defiance, disruption and disorderly conduct. We started this project with some basic questions: How often were states suspending students for these reasons? What kinds of behavior do educators say constitute defiance or disorder, anyway?

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