Take a risk and follow your own path in life
Take a Risk and Follow Your Own Path in Life by Anisha Srivastava was originally published on Getting Smart. At the end of my sophomore year in the business program at the University of Texas at...
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ASA DataFest 2016 exceeded my expectations
Analyze, network, experience. This is what you can expect from DataFest. As a statistics major at UCLA, I greatly anticipated participating in this “big data” event because of the excitement former...
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Increasing student engagement in computer programming
Quick identification of strategies — both highly successful as well as the less successful — is fundamental to student engagement in programming. If teachers can quickly identify successful behaviors...
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Active learning moves programming students from novice to skilled
Today’s educators are faced with numerous challenges, particularly in courses where students have a broad range of prior knowledge and interests. Introductory courses from many departments are often...
View ArticleThe new wave of educational technology
The Children’s Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer, is one of the first books to examine the use of computers in the classroom. In it, author Seymour Papert writes, “Information...
View Article3 learners share how education is changing their lives
What do an 8th-grade dropout, an immigrant, and a heart failure survivor have in common? All three overcame tremendous obstacles, enrolled in community college, and have been accepted to Phi Theta...
View ArticleBuilding a community in higher education disciplines
Have you ever caught yourself on a seemingly endless Internet search for additional resources and strategies to improve your teaching practice? Perhaps you are the only instructor in your department to...
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New technologies radically alter the way we interact with information
Since the introduction of the smartphone, about 10 years ago, there has been a relative lull in the popular adoption of new technology that radically alters the way we interact with information. That...
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Looking forward from 2016: Five emerging technology concepts to watch…
As I read through the “best of 2016” lists and predictions of what’s to come in 2017, I’d like to take the opportunity to reflect on how emerging technology has been developing, based on my own...
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DataFest UCLA: Wrestling with big data impacts students long term
ASA DataFestTM 2016 is set to be another great event for students studying statistics, mathematics, computer science, and humanities. There is so much excitement that some students are coming from up...
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