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AI is eroding science’s foundations—we must act
Image sources: Ursula Martin; Lieke Vermeulen Mathematicians take lead in addressing AI’s impact on research, say Jim Portegies and Ursula Martin As universities around the globe get to grips with the impact of AI on teaching, administration and research, mathematicians are leading the way in addressing the challenges.
LoveReading Weekly Staff Picks
The LoveReading family exists because reading matters, and books change lives. Cheerleaders of authors and illustrators everywhere, the leading book recommendation websites now feature an online bookstore with social purpose where 25% of money spent can be donated to a school close to the buyer's heart, or to schools in need. Schools across the nation use their LoveReading4Schools Portal to encourage reading for pleasure and fund new books, with £50,000 already donated to schools. Buy a Book.
What’s On the Bookshelf: 5 inspiring books that value the women in tech
<Fact>Women rule</fact>… Did you know that only 26.7% of women work in tech-related jobs for multinational corporations like Amazon, Facebook, and Apple? Seeing as women make up half the world’s population, this gender deficit in the workforce is quite glaring. After all, how can a digital product be for everyone if the very people who make up half the world don’t have a hand in its creation?
Education After COVID
Share this Page Expert Viewpoint Education After COVID By Ursula Martin 05/12/21 COVID-19 has shined a light on the education system worldwide. Many educators have had to really evaluate their teaching methods and determine whether they have truly been meeting the needs of all of their students. Virtual learning has become a way of life as COVID-19 has forced many students to learn from home as well as many teachers to teach from home.
Where do we go from here?
As teaching has remained a remote/virtual/face-to-face experience, so has the delivery of professional development. Dr. Ursula Martin and Dr. Allyson Chappell share their views of how teaching, learning and professional development may look in P-12 school systems as we continue through the school year in 2021. As coronavirus continues to plague the US, many are concerned for the education system and how classrooms will look for the school year moving into 2021.
Time to bust the myth that Ada Lovelace was an overhyped aristo
More than two centuries after her birth, controversy still surrounds the work of Ada Lovelace. Although hailed as a computing pioneer, and an icon for those promoting women in science, detractors persist in painting her as an intellectual lightweight with an overhyped reputation, and some suggest she didn’t even write the paper for which she is famous. Invited to work on a display celebrating Lovelace, I had a chance to sort fact from fiction.
A Voyage to Remember
In 2015, Rod Rhys Jones, Chairman of the British Antarctic Monument Trust, saw the realisation of a long-held plan to see a memorial to those who lost their lives in the pursuit of scientific knowledge, unveiled in Stanley.
Robert Penn - Geographical
Robert Penn is an author, journalist and TV presenter. He wrote and produced the BBC series Tales from the Wild Wood, and wrote It’s All About the Bike and his latest book The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees At the heart of my story is the idea that how we value things made from natural materials is a reflection of how we value nature itself. In our recent history, we have removed things made from natural materials from our homes, things you’d use day in, day out, and I think that has an effect.
Mathematical winters: Ada Lovelace, 200 years on
Christmas 1840, cold and crisp. The fashionable and wealthy Lovelace family are learning to skate, the four year-old Byron (junior, the grandson of Lord Byron) pushing a chair along the ice to keep his balance. Driven inside by the cold, his mother retires to her study and her lessons in advanced calculus. She writes to her tutor: “This is very mathematical weather.
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