Say hello to Alvik: Arduino’s game-changing robot is the beginning of a great learning adventure!

LUGANO, SWITZERLAND – As part of its mission to make robotics fun and accessible for all, Arduino is launching a brand-new programmable robot – the Arduino Alvik. Catering to teachers, students, programmers and innovators alike, this versatile and robust platform provides boundless opportunities for hands-on learning and creativity. Alvik stands out for its unprecedented ease…

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Say hello to Alvik: Arduino’s game-changing robot is the beginning of a great learning adventure!

LUGANO, SWITZERLAND – As part of its mission to make robotics fun and accessible for all, Arduino is launching a brand-new programmable robot – the Arduino Alvik. Catering to teachers, students, programmers and innovators alike, this versatile and robust platform provides boundless opportunities for hands-on learning and creativity. Alvik stands out for its unprecedented ease…

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School Segregation: A visual timeline

Images depicting these events may contain themes or terms that do not reflect current acceptable language. The Hechinger Report edited the original captions for clarity and style. 1954: The Supreme Court rules that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools violates the 14th Amendment in Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The decision overturns…

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School Segregation: A visual timeline

Images depicting these events may contain themes or terms that do not reflect current acceptable language. The Hechinger Report edited the original captions for clarity and style. 1954: The Supreme Court rules that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools violates the 14th Amendment in Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The decision overturns…

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Later School Days Can Boost Retrieval, & Behaviour!

Reading Time: 3 minutes Could adjusting school start times boost student success? This research suggests earlier school start times equate to less sleep for students, increased absences (slightly) and modestly increased exam scores for disadvantaged students … However, little is known about primary schools. Changing the start of the school day New research, Early Birds…

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Later School Days Can Boost Retrieval, & Behaviour!

Reading Time: 3 minutes Could adjusting school start times boost student success? This research suggests earlier school start times equate to less sleep for students, increased absences (slightly) and modestly increased exam scores for disadvantaged students … However, little is known about primary schools. Changing the start of the school day New research, Early Birds…

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Mitigating Hallucinations in LLMs for Community College Classrooms: Strategies to Ensure Reliable and Trustworthy AI-Powered Learning Tools 

According to Jandrić (2019) in “The Post-digital Challenge of Critical Media Literacy,” Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can exhibit unpredictable and biased behaviors that their creators and researchers are unable to directly control. Jandrić argues that AI systems do not merely reproduce or embed existing biases found in their training data but can also recombine these…

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