Education & Tech: News for Educators

• Only 20% of those who cite a paper have read it.

  The method is based on a stochastic modeling of the citation process that explains empirical studies of misprint distributions in citations (which we show follows a Zipf law). Our estimate is only about 20% of citers read the original.

• I'll never resign: we work in a broken system and we need to raise awareness

  How do children learn to care enough about others that they reap the personal rewards associated with giving?How do children learn to care enough about others that they reap the personal rewards associated with giving?It’s time for the voice of teachers to be louder than the broken system. There are moments of good that seep through the cracks in our schools and flood the halls with that soul-wrenching love that made us all love learning in the first place.

• How do children learn to care enough about others that they reap the personal rewards associated with giving?

  Roman Krznaric, Ph.D., claims that highly empathetic people:
  
  Cultivate curiosity about strangers
  Challenge prejudices and discover commonalities
  Gain direct experience of other people's lives
  Listen and open themselves to others
  Inspire mass action and social change
  Develop an ambitious imagination
  

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