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Noelle Brown; Sara Nurollahian; Eliane S. Wiese – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2025
While there have been many calls for teaching ethics and responsible computing, it is unclear how responsible computing instruction and technical learning interact. Some instructors even hesitate to include ethics in their courses, fearing it might distract students from learning technical computing content. An approach called…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Intervention, Ethics
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Murphy, Michelle Pauley; Hung, Woei – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
One hundred years ago, Paul Weiss and Ludwig von Bertalanffy independently proposed that living organisms interact with their environment through systems. In the century that has followed, systems thinking and modeling have grown in tandem with discovery of the vast complexity of the universe at microscopic through astronomic levels. As our…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Cognitive Processes, Artificial Intelligence, Learning Processes
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Samwick, Andrew A. – Journal of Economic Education, 2022
The emerging field of social entrepreneurship seeks to address social challenges in environments where traditional public sector institutions are weak or absent. With its explicit focus on solving problems, social entrepreneurship is inherently interdisciplinary. A well-designed undergraduate course in social entrepreneurship can enhance…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Social Problems, Economics Education, Problem Solving
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Fernando M. Reimers – Prospects, 2024
This essay explains that periodic examination of the goals of education is essential for educational institutions to ensure they are adequately preparing students to address the challenges of the present and build a better future. It argues that education is an ethical enterprise, and that clear and shared goals provide education institutions with…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Objectives
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Ladapa Ladachart; Luecha Ladachart – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
The purpose of the current study is to qualitatively explore how Thai preservice biology teachers make decisions on, and informally reason about, an agriculture-based socioscientific issue (SSI). The SSI arises mainly as a controversy between two social classes, namely the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors, involving haze pollution.…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Suzanne Harper; Dana Cox – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2023
Modernizing mathematics refers to the idea that teachers should rethink how mathematics has traditionally been taught in schools by making rich tasks and collaboration the focus of instruction and promoting opportunities for active learning. "Modern Math Tasks to Provoke Transformational Thinking" presents carefully crafted tasks that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Active Learning
Dina Thomason – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There is an ever-increasing need for technologically literate citizens to find creative ways to solve societal problems. STEM, the integration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics subjects continues to be a popular topic as schools grapple with how to best prepare students for an ever-evolving society. As societal and technological…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, STEM Education, Technological Literacy
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Lucas, Melissa A.; Anderson, Lindsey B.; Gray, Katlin – Communication Teacher, 2022
Incorporating civic engagement in the undergraduate curriculum has become a goal in higher education generally and the communication discipline specifically. Given this emerging priority, we offer a framework that integrates civic engagement in the communication classroom and meets students and instructors needs, experience, and goals. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Civics, Undergraduate Students, Communication (Thought Transfer), Social Problems
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Gunn, AnnMarie Alberton; Bennett, Susan V.; Peterson, Barbara J. – Reading Teacher, 2022
Integration of social-emotional learning (SEL) content and vocabulary within read-alouds of multicultural literature provides powerful learning contexts for enhancing young children's social problem-solving, language development, and comprehension. Multicultural literature allows children to gain greater understanding of themselves and others…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Social Emotional Learning, Vocabulary Development, Reading Aloud to Others
Keith Rene Rivero – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Today's students will face issues and problems that are global scale and require a collaborative global effort to resolve effectively. To help prepare students to resolve these global issues, students must learn to participate in the global democratic process as part of their citizenship education. In particular, scholars argue students need to…
Descriptors: History Instruction, World Affairs, High School Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Da Costa, Belmiro Matos – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2020
Climate education is increasingly being taught in schools, and groups are looking to pass climate education into law. This article looks at climate justice, a framing of the overarching climate movement, to advocate for an education that inspires action. Drawing from Freire's 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', it makes a case for problem-posing…
Descriptors: Climate, Change, Environmental Education, Teaching Methods
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Simic-Muller, Ksenija – PRIMUS, 2023
This manuscript proposes the use of the "I notice, I wonder" routine in college mathematics classrooms to address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Examples are given of prompts that incorporate meaningful conversations about real-world issues affecting our students or about issues of inclusion, access, and representation in…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Access to Education, Mathematics Instruction, Equal Education
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Cross, Iain D.; Congreve, Alina – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
Climate change is a 'super-wicked' problem associated with challenges including food security, mass migration and biodiversity loss. Young people are increasingly expecting their university education to prepare them to address these challenges. This requires universities to go beyond scientific accounts of climate change, and to engage students in…
Descriptors: Climate, Authentic Learning, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving
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Lehtonen, Miikka J. – Design and Technology Education, 2023
Since the beginning of the 21st century, design education has been gaining momentum across disciplines as a means to equip students with skills relevant in the job market as well as to tackle wicked problems. One of the core assumptions behind integrating design education to other disciplines focuses on the need for hands-on and experiential…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Design, Thinking Skills, Cooperative Learning
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Simic-Muller, Ksenija; Fernandes, Anthony – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2020
This study examines the beliefs of 33 preservice teachers (PSTs) from the U.S. have about using different types of real-world contexts in the mathematics classroom. Qualitative data about the participants' reactions to specially designed word problems that varied in contexts from "neutral" to controversial were collected. A thematic…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Beliefs, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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