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Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Education : Brilliant app, math and science : Learn think !







“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

Plutarch

Brilliant app is for anyone who has an interest in mathematics and science. The app replaces lecture videos with hands-on, interactive lessons. It’s a better (and more fun) way to learn.

Dive into advanced, creative problem solving and improve domain knowledge and critical thinking skills. Learn how different domains, like number theory and computer science, are interconnected. Discover how core math and science concepts apply to modern topics.

Brilliant's entertaining and educational course library is great for beginners, and also includes intermediate and advanced topics for teachers and lifelong learners. 

Creators:

Brilliant is made with the loving efforts of lifelong learners from MIT, Caltech, Duke, the University of Chicago, and more.

"We’re passionately working on delivering the very best math and science education on earth. Your age, country, and gender don't determine what you are capable of learning. You do."




https://brilliant.org/


Principles:

Brilliant creates a culture of learning around inquiry, curiosity, and openness to failure. All of our courses are written with these principles of learning in mind.

Effective learning math & science:

  • Excites

The greatest challenges to education are disinterest and apathy.

  • Cultivate curiosity

Questions and storytelling that cultivate natural curiosity are better than the threat of a test.

  • Is active

Effective learning is active, not passive. Watching a video is not enough.

  • Is applicable

Use it or lose it: it is essential to apply what you're learning as you learn it.

Learn more here



screenshot: Brilliant app (tablet)


screenshot: Brilliant app (smartphone)

https://play.google.com/store/


. Learn to think


Whether you want to hone your quantitative skills, improve your knowledge of science and technology, be a smarter parent for your inquisitive kid, or simply stay sharp, Brilliant helps you grow as a curious and ambitious person.


2. Become a better problem solver


Brilliant's approach to learning is active, not passive. Through active problem solving, Brilliant helps you build your quantitative intuition. Learn frameworks for thinking and solving challenging problems, instead of memorizing formulas.


3. Enjoy new challenges every week ... and now every day


With free, curated weekly problems, you can gain timeless knowledge and flex applied problem solving skills in bite-sized sessions. Stay fresh and discuss your favorite solutions with an engaged community of lifelong learners.





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via Google Play & iOS

Master concepts by solving fun, challenging problems. Brilliant app helps students learn real math and science through conceptual quizzes that are both entertaining and educational.

With free Problems of the Week, students can solve and discuss fascinating problems with members around the world. If you enjoy these problems, then it’s time to subscribe. Once you do, you’ll have access to courses with hundreds of guided exercises on everything from logical reasoning to artificial neural networks.




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via Google Images


Method:

In school, students are often trained to apply formulas to rote problems. But this traditional approach prevents deeper understanding of concepts, reduces independent critical thinking, and cultivates few useful skills.


The capacity to think critically separates the great from the good. We can grow this capacity by trying — and often failing — to solve diverse, concrete problems.

  1. Start with simple questions and stories that build your foundation and intuition.
  2. Ramp up to solving problems that seemed beyond your ability.
  3. Study different ways of solving the problems that are out of your grasp.




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For ages 10 t0 110

Get started as a beginner with the fundamentals, or dive right into intermediate and advanced courses for professionals. Brilliant has courses for ambitious students and people of all ages.

Master essential skills

Build confidence with hands-on learning. You'll get to see concepts visually, interact with key ideas, and solve challenging problems that get you to really think.

Stress less, learn better

Enjoy fun storytelling, guided problem solving, and making lots of mistakes while playing. On Brilliant, your natural curiosity will drive you, not the threat of a test.




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via Google Images

Education:

Brilliant app is an educational platform, designed to help make learning fun and accessible. Designed around focused lessons and relatable situations, Brilliant allows students to explore complex science, technology, and math topics in ways that make learning exciting.

With the Brilliant app, there’s no punishment for getting the answer wrong. Instead, a wrong answer is an opportunity to learn.

Whether students guess the correct answer, or are 100% wrong, they can see student-submitted explanations of how the correct answer can be found. Other students can then vote on the explanations, ensuring that the best and most understandable are provided.


  • Brilliant app is free
To unlock the full experience, you need to sign up for a subscription plan. That’s $24.99 for the monthly plan and $119.99 for the annual plan.

  • Available: 

 iOS App Store

  Play Store

Language: English





screenshot iOS Apple Store

Expanding on their learning platform, Brilliant recently introduced their Daily Problems feature. These give students an opportunity to flex their mental muscles and learn new things every day.

The Daily Problems come in a variety of subjects, from algebra, chemistry and computer science.





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Each Daily Problem provides an “insight” lesson that gives enough detail to get you on the right path, and the questions are typically presented with a multiple choice answer.

Each topic is divided into various levels with 1 being the most fundamental. The problems offer a path of learning that encourages critical thinking.




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via Google Images

Remember:

Some of questions are easy to solve, while some take hours. Students don't have to worry about getting an answer wrong. They can always check

Brilliant is a great way to learn and have fun. Its approachable, and allows you to learn a little (or a lot) whenever you want.

Some of the questions are easy to solve, while some take hours. You don’t have to worry about getting an answer wrong. You can always check answers from user submissions to figure out the solutions to such problems. And you can vote on explanations that impressed you.

Get new ideas :

Facebook : Brilliant Math

Facebook : Brilliant Science


Brilliant is a great way to learn and have fun. Its approachable, and allows students to learn a little (or a lot) whenever they want.


G-Souto

20.04.2021

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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Schools : Civics & Environment : Climate Change : #TakeYourSeat !






COP24, the two-week 24th conference of the parties of the United Nations Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC), started on Sunday in Katowice, Poland, with a special focus on carbon neutrality and gender equality
On Monday, the grand opening ceremony took place the 3 December with about 40 heads of State and heads of Government in attendance, as well as UN Secretary-General, António Guterres. 


António Guterres, UN General-Secretary
"Our job here in Katowice is to finalize the Paris Agreement Work Programme - the rule book for implementation. I remind all Parties that this is a deadline you set for yourselves,"
António Guterres, UN General-Secretary
Thousands of world leaders, experts, activists, creative thinkers, and private sector and local community representatives will gather to work on a collective action plan to realize critical commitments made by all the countries of the world in Paris, three years ago (2015).


COP24 Climate Change
Poland 2018
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The conference, which coincides with the three year anniversary of the Paris Agreement adoption, is expected to finalize the rules for implementation of the Paris Agreement.


COP24 is looking at concrete ways to help countries tackle large-scale displacement caused by the impacts of climate change, including water scarcity, flooding, storms and rising.




COP24 Climate Change

As global temperatures continue to rise, climate action is lagging and the window of opportunity is closing. On Sunday, the United Nations kicked off critical negotiations on how to address the problem collectively and urgently, during a two-week climate change conference in Katowice, Poland, known as COP24.




NASA The Earth, 
image created from photographs taken by the Suomi NPP satellite
According to scientific research assessed by the IPCC, keeping global warming to no more than 1.5°C global average over pre-industrial levels, will help stave off devastating permanent damage to the planet and its people, including: 

  • the irreversible loss of habitat for animals in the Arctic and Antarctic; 




COP24 Climate Change
UN News put together this guide to COP 24 to answer some of the biggest questions you may have and make sure you’re all caught up, with a ringside seat on the action. 
To limit COP24’s footprint and achieve carbon neutrality locally, the conference organisers have taken a series of different measures. First, public transportation in the city is free of charge for the duration of the conference, for all participants. 
In addition, reusable materials have been used to set up the conference rooms, including carpets and backdrops. Recycled cardboard furniture was installed in all the main meeting spaces. 


Sir David Attenborough delivered a stern speech at the UN's climate change summit in Katowice, Poland, on Monday morning, warning of the impending threats global warming poses to the natural world.
"If we don't take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon," 
Sir David Attenborough



credits : SchoolStrike4Climate

Education:
Last week thousands of students sacrificed a bit of their education to demand climate action.

Education is the most powerful way to continue developing green generations. Greta 
Thunberg, a Swedish 15-year-old with Asperger Syndrome, is a good example. She's on a school strike to get politicians to act on climate breakdown.






Well, I don't agree with the school strike. I think students could have their voice without striking school time.

Thus, this new generation, the ecology generation, is seriously committed on climate action. And they have a voice! They are engaged with COP24 Climate Change,

I know, the eyes of schools are on COP24 Climate Change. Teachers and students are working on climate change






ActNow.BOT


Resources & Activities for schools:

Sir David Attenborough launched a new UN campaign to give individuals their say on the key global issue, via social media.


The UN’s new ActNow.bot [this link opens in Facebook Messenger] is designed to fuel climate change understanding, and urges advocates to take personal action via the Facebook Messenger Platform.
The bot is a fully interactive and responsive chat bot which students can find on the UN Facebook page. 
It suggests everyday actions determined by the user’s - and why not schools, teachers and students - interaction with the bot, that can be taken to preserve the environment and shared via the social platform to encourage collective action.

The Climate Action ActNow.bot (link opens Facebook Messenger) recommends everyday actions – like taking public transport and eating less meat – and track the number of actions everyone individually is taking. 
By sharing Climate Action progress with your students on social media, schools can help encourage more schools and students to ACT NOW






The campaign highlights the impact that collective action can have at this critical moment in our planet’s history.

Sir David told delegated on Monday 3 December in Poland that “if we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world, is on the horizon.”






So here you have some resources to include into school curriculum. How about the People's Seat?


A UN campaign called the People's Seat has been established to represent the world's population before a council tasked with putting the brakes on global warming.
Speaking for The People’s Seat initiative, Sir David Attenborough called it the result of new activism shaped by people from around the world and collected through social media.


People’s Seat initiative aims to engage people on taking action climate change in the lead-up to the Katowice Climate Change Conference. The initiative will combine digital technology, polling and the voices of prominent environmentalists to deliver an urgent message to delegates at the conference.

The UN is inviting people from all over the world to share their thoughts, opinions and experiences with climate change by using the hashtag #TakeYourSeat. 


These messages will help to shape the People’s Address, which will be delivered by Attenborough to the conference on the day.





Students Time to Act!

Time to Act? So, invite your students to takeTheirSeat and share some thoughts, opinions and experiences with climate change. Don't forget the hashtag #TakeYourSeat. 

Their messages will be delivered by Sir Sir David Attenborough. 


The world’s students and schools can take part in creating videos and voicing their opinions. Teachers and students must take part of this unique opportunity.




The Lazy Person's guide to saving the world:

It seems impossible that the average person can make an impact. Should you just give up? No! Change starts with you. Seriously. Every human on earth - even the most indifferent, laziest person among us - is part of the solution. 

Fortunately, there are some easy things we can adopt into our routines that, if we all do it, will make a big difference. 

Have a look at just a few of the many things you can do to make an impact! 

Teachers, download the guide and invite your students to do some simple things and they will make an impact!







App:

The SDGs in Action app has been developed to highlight the Sustainable Development Goals - the world’s to-do list to end poverty, reduce inequalities and tackle climate change. 

Features:

"Learn about the 17 SDGs, get news on your favourite goals, find out what you can do to achieve them, create your own events and invite others to join you in sustainable actions and events." Read more



G-Souto

5.12.2019
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