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🔮 Previous figures honoured with specialty dolls include Miley Cyrus, Whitney Houston, Marilyn Monroe, Venus and Serena Williams, and Dr. Jane Goodall.

🔮 "Activities like this … which are more interactive and involve more creativity would definitely be more engaging for students.

🔮 What worries Canadian mathematician John Mighton are the changes happening over time, specifically the growth in students who are slipping to lower levels — where some can only handle basic math or are considered below functional numeracy — and the wider impact of that trend. "

🔮 During the autopsy, "no signs of trauma were discovered that would have contributed to the death," the statement added.

🔮 Amid wide, ongoing calls for more consistency and clarity teaching students when, how and if AI should be used, some are calling for more deliberation and pushing back against the technology in classrooms right now, especially for younger learners. New Brunswick's approach The curriculum update in New Brunswick basically fleshes out its digital literacy curriculum to incorporate AI in a structured way, according to André Côté, executive director of public policy think tank The Dais at Toronto Metropolitan University. It's an important first step he hopes other provincial and territorial peers will soon follow, given that our education systems generally haven't moved urgently enough to address the "tsunami of AI use that has washed into schools," he said.

🔮 "The steepness of these declines post-pandemic is ... what some would call shocking.

🔮 Herrick said she couldn't log into the account and school officials said she couldn't opt-out or have it deleted, saying it was necessary for access to educational apps and "a requirement" for learning.

🔮 Meta says it will continue existing work blocking strangers from contacting teen accounts and improve reporting tools and parental controls. It also vowed to toughen some of its new measures — for instance, further reducing the daily time limit to one hour — if rival social platforms Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube also adopted comparable ones.