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New, MIT-based program proposes transforming physicists, engineers into teachers

The Hechinger Report

The “Great Dome” on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is hosting an experimental program to recruit physicists, engineers, chemists, linguists, biologists, neuroscientists and other experts and train them to be primary and secondary school teachers. So we can concentrate on how to teach.”. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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Transforming Physicists, Engineers into Teachers at New MIT Program

MindShift

“We don’t have to focus on math, because they’re already good at math,” said Yoon Jeon Kim, a research scientist in MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab who is monitoring the effort to see how well it works. “We So we can concentrate on how to teach.”. So we can concentrate on how to teach.’ Yoon Jeon Kim, MIT Teaching Systems Lab.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts. Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. Amazon unveiled its new lesson sharing site for openly licensed materials in June 2016.

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