Since it was founded in 2004, people all over the world have …
Since it was founded in 2004, people all over the world have used Facebook to connect.Facebook gives people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.Facebook is no longer just Facebook, but now includes several popular apps that help peopleconnect with each other and also their favorite businesses and organizations.The Facebook family includes With a global audience of 25 BILLION people, you can use Facebook to reachnew and existing customers who wantto know more about your business.
Asking the question, “What is human-computer interaction - artificial intelligence? Students come …
Asking the question, “What is human-computer interaction - artificial intelligence? Students come to understand what artificial intelligence is in most everyday life, discussing the privacy, pros and cons of this topic and exploring with artificial intelligence activities online. This lesson plan includes using the Google Vision Kit to explore various pre-loaded facial recognition programs and advance programming students can access the Python code, manipulate the code and test the changes.
Fake News on the WebThis unit showcases lessons about Fake News, how …
Fake News on the WebThis unit showcases lessons about Fake News, how students can learn to recongnize legitimate news stories from the fake stuff, and why recognizing the truth on the internet is so important.
In 2016, Oxford Dictionaries chose "post-truth" as the word of the year. …
In 2016, Oxford Dictionaries chose "post-truth" as the word of the year. As literacy has shifted from published hardcopy to an online landscape, it is more important than ever to engage and empower students in navigating the complicated battleground of fake news verses responsible, fact-based news. In this multi-day lesson, students will 1) examine terms associated with “fake news” and evaluate sources for their reliability and authenticity, and 2) develop a set of norms for responsible use of online news sources that spans academic and personal interaction with media.Cover image: "Fake news" by pixel2013 from Pixabay.com
We're off to fact-checking school. This time, John Green is teaching you …
We're off to fact-checking school. This time, John Green is teaching you how to fact-check like the pros. We're going to walk through the steps that professionals follow, including figuring out who is behind the information we read, why they're sharing that information, and what kind of evidence exists to back up the claim. We'll also talk about the difference between skepticism and cynicism.
The amount of information being consumed on a daily basis is staggering …
The amount of information being consumed on a daily basis is staggering and often leads to "information overload." As literacy has shifted to a digital landscape, it is even more imperative for consumers, especially students, to learn how to navigate this environment. This multi-day lesson helps students 1) examine terms associated with "fake news" and how to evaluate them for reliability and authenticity, and then 2) develp a set of skills to help them continue to evaluate sources for both academic and personal needs."Fake News Image" by Pxfuel logo is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
In this unit, students explore synthetic media by creating a smartphone app …
In this unit, students explore synthetic media by creating a smartphone app that can speak in different voices by changing the rate and pitch of the speech. Students work in groups to present arguments about the possible future impacts of various types of deepfake media, including ones in commerce and assistive technology as well as those used in crime.
Educators can use this lesson to introduce students to coding, provide a basic understanding of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and prompt students to predict the possible future use and abuse of synthetic media in society.
Payday loans are convenient and provide FAST cash to cover emergency situations …
Payday loans are convenient and provide FAST cash to cover emergency situations or help pay a borrower’s expenses from one paycheck to the next. But the fee-based structure of payday lending is quite different from a traditional loan, and laws vary among the states. The April 2019 edition of Page One Economics®: Focus on Finance takes a look at the structure and fees that make these loans costly.
This English Language Arts lesson makes cross-curricular connections to math and computer …
This English Language Arts lesson makes cross-curricular connections to math and computer science. Although it is designed as a supplemental activity for the "Culture and Belonging" unit based on the Grade 8 Collections textbook published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, it can be adapted to any subject. The lesson meets the 2014 Nebraska Language Arts Standards 8.1.6.l, 8.2.2.a, and 8.2.2.e.
Field Service Management has a crucial role in maintaining Network Field Engineer …
Field Service Management has a crucial role in maintaining Network Field Engineer as they are responsible for planning, installing, testing, and maintaining the equipment to run a proper communication network. Their general duties include the maintenance and repair of equipment and construction of towers to ensure optimal performance. A telecom engineer’s job involves the use of various tools such as interconnect devices, network facilities, and radios. A field engineer also works with engineers from other fields for equipment installation and then report to the upper management.
Today we’re going to look at how our computers read and interpret …
Today we’re going to look at how our computers read and interpret computer files. We’ll talk about how some popular file formats like txt, wave, and bitmap are encoded and decoded giving us pretty pictures and lifelike recordings from just strings of 1’s and 0’s, and we’ll discuss how our computers are able to keep all this data organized and readily accessible to users. You’ll notice in this episode that we’re starting to talk more about computer users, not programmers, foreshadowing where the series will be going in a few episodes.
Students plan their final working session together, then work in their project …
Students plan their final working session together, then work in their project groups to make final changes, test their projects, and check their project against the design requirements. Students reflect on what they want people to understand when they view their cities.
This 9-minute video lesson looks at how lower lending standards led to …
This 9-minute video lesson looks at how lower lending standards led to housing price inflation and helped created the housing price conundrum. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 14 of 184]
This 4 minute video will help students understand the progressive tax system …
This 4 minute video will help students understand the progressive tax system that is used in America commonly referred to as income tax. This video will enforce the standard EPF. 16
Material Description This resource is a financial calculator that students may use …
Material Description
This resource is a financial calculator that students may use in a finance portion of a mathematics class, a mathematics portion of a business or finance class, or wherever the user may find it useful.
The calculator can find future value and payment/deposit amount of a savings annuity. It can also find present value and withdrawal/payment amount of a payout annuity/loan.
Context for sharing:
The calculator allows students to more quickly solve contextual problems related to personal finance including loans, investments, and amortization, which provides more instruction time for deeper contextual problems.
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The calculator is written in python, hosted by Streamlit, and may be copied and remixed through Github.
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