Sunday, February 19, 2023

Education Links 2/20/23

 

8 Science-Based Strategies For Critical Thinking



10 Concrete Ways Teachers Can Hone Their Craft


10 Tools for Gathering Real-time Feedback From Students



35 Essential Real-Life And Academic Skills Students Should Learn



The Art (and Science) of Using Praise for Improvement


Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work? A New Analysis Dives Into the Research



10 Google Docs Tips Every Teacher Should Know


The Sky Is Cheap Entertainment: Preventing The Sky From Falling

 


Detecting asteroids near the sun with NEOMIR


How Do We Detect Asteroids?



NASA’s NEO Observations Program is tasked with finding, tracking, and characterizing NEOs and identifying those that may pose a hazard to Earth. Ground-based telescopes and NASA’s NEOWISE spacecraft are the current means of finding NEOs. In fiscal year 2013, the NEO Observations Program supported 41 ongoing projects, including 5 detection and tracking campaigns, 10 follow-up surveys, 9 characterization efforts, 3 radar projects, 4 data processing and management projects, 6 technology development projects, and 4 studies of techniques for impact mitigation.