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Andy RavennaAugust 14, 2018 0

Announcing the AnalyticsX Hackathon: Are you up for it?

Even though I’ve worked at SAS for nearly 30 years, I still get excited when great things come together for our customers! This year we are hosting the very first hackathon at our Analytics Experience conference in San Diego - the AnalyticsX Hackathon. Analytics Experience is in its third year

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Students & Educators

Meredith Rakowski

Meredith RakowskiAugust 13, 2018 0

Crio Delivers Active CTE Learning with an Impact

My “why” has always been my animals. They are the reason I drag myself out of bed every morning before the sun comes up to feed, water, and check them over before heading to school. And once there, my “why” becomes my job as I share my passion for animals

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Students & Educators

Molly FarrowAugust 13, 2018 0

Back to School: Social Studies

With the start of the new school year, you may be looking for ways to ease students back into social studies. Here are a few ways that Curriculum Pathways can help. Check out Crio! Use our brand new drag-and-drop editor to transform your static, paper-based lesson plans into online resources; and

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Students & Educators

Amber BrunerAugust 7, 2018 0

Using Digital Resources to Support Social-Emotional Development

Ask anyone what subjects are taught in school. The list is predictable: some combination of reading, writing, math, social studies, and science, along with fine arts, physical education, and perhaps technology. It's rare for someone to mention social-emotional skills (SEL). But, if you ask a kindergarten teacher what skills their

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Students & Educators

Jessica Tufillaro

Jessica TufillaroAugust 7, 2018 0

Four Reasons I'll Use Crio to Flip My Classroom

As an elementary teacher and technology facilitator, I know the excitement educators feel when they want to implement new technology into their classroom. Typically, most teachers are eager to learn and try new things at the beginning of the school year. This year, I am eager to flip my classroom

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Students & Educators

Ralph MooreAugust 3, 2018 0

Now you can add Google files to your Crio lesson!

Crio is barely a month old, and we're already making it better! Launched in June, Crio enables teachers to create lessons that include audio, text, images, video, and interactive content. This drag-and-drop editor lets teachers transform static, paper-based lesson plans into online resources, and to do so without any programming skills. And

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Students & Educators

Ralph MooreAugust 2, 2018 0

Three ways a free online course can help you blend algebra instruction

Did you know Curriculum Pathways resources include an entire online Algebra 1 Course? And it's much more than a typical math textbook. The Algebra 1 Course consists of 46 lessons organized into 10 units. In addition, students can work through two pre-algebra units (7 lessons) in preparation for the course.

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Learn SAS | Students & Educators

Amy ShepherdAugust 1, 2018 0

My time at SAS as an intern…

Amy Shepherd, a recent graduate from The University of Nottingham, has spent the summer as an intern at SAS UK. As a last task we have asked her to share her final thoughts on what it's been like to undertake an internship. My time here at SAS has been varied to say the least, I arrived

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Students & Educators

Staci LyonAugust 1, 2018 0

Back to School: Math

Kicking off the new school year, you may be looking for ways to ease your students back into math. Here are a few ways that Curriculum Pathways can help. And remember, all Curriculum Pathways resources, including apps, are free! Check out Crio! Use our brand new drag-and-drop editor to transform your

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Students & Educators

Ada LopezJuly 17, 2018 0

Student-led Conferences in Four Easy Steps

Open communication between school and home is essential to student learning. Traditionally, a parent-teacher conference is scheduled between report cards to provide parents with updates on their child’s progress. But the focus and the work is on the parents and the teacher. How do we shift the focus to the

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Students & Educators

Ralph MooreJune 18, 2018 0

Crossing the EdTech Bridge: From the Classroom to the Corporate Edtech World

Wonder how you can interact with and learn from an #EdTech company? Here's your chance to find out from an educator who has done just that! Join Wake County North Carolina teacher and instructional technology facilitator David Balmer at ISTE as he shares his experiences working with Curriculum Pathways during

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Students & Educators

Mimi StapletonJune 8, 2018 0

Learn Spanish vocabulary and phrases with free quick tutorials

Curriculum Pathways offers a suite of Quick Tutorials: Spanish for learning core Spanish content for beginning, intermediate and advance levels. Students watch a video and listen to native speakers, Carmen and Roberto, as they discuss several topics. Each tutorial highlights the proper use and form of a grammatical element in

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SAS Events | Students & Educators

Why data science students and educators participate at SAS Forum

Charlotte Rübberdt

Charlotte RübberdtMay 28, 2018 0

Why data science students and educators participate at SAS® forums

SAS has partnered and engaged with educators and students alike for more than 30 years now, and academic engagement remains a big issue. There is increasing pressure on students around the world to become more “work-ready,” and we know that analytics skills are in high demand. A recent article on

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Students & Educators

Molly FarrowMay 22, 2018 0

Never Underestimate the Humble Tool Tip

Active (close, engaged) reading involves analyzing the meaning and context of new content. According to ASCD, the goal of close reading is to uncover many layers of meaning. But first students must grasp the functional meaning of each word and reference in the text. Writing centers at George Mason and many other universities offer

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Students & Educators

Mimi StapletonMay 15, 2018 0

Scaffolding Strategies for Better Comprehensible Input: Using Authentic Materials for ELLs

Authentic materials are not produced for the purpose of language teaching; instead, they are created by native speakers for native speakers (e.g., realia such as menus, literary excerpts, poems, broadcasts, ...). For English Language Learners, teachers need to make sure that the authentic materials and resources (#authres) contain appropriate features

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Data for Good | SAS Events | Students & Educators

Trent SmithMay 11, 2018 0

Students showcase power of open data to help government

Open data is critical to research, particularly at universities. The many university students that attend SAS Global Forum bring an energy and vitality to the conference that is unmistakable. They’re everywhere…in sessions, social activities, out on the town and, of course, the academic events. This year, 150 of them graced

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Education | Government

Students & Educators

Terry HardisonMay 9, 2018 0

Mission Critical: Teaching Students to Think like Writers

The recent release of enhancements to Writing Reviser makes this an ideal time to revisit the purpose of our innovative tool, which is both significant and, I think, subtle. The tool aims to teach students how to write. No one would argue that this is easy. It isn't. We’ve all

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Students & Educators

Terry HardisonMay 8, 2018 0

Writing Reviser: Now Offering More Opportunities for Improvement

When I’ve had the chance over the last few years to show Writing Reviser in classrooms and at conferences, I’ve been careful to point that its purpose is not punitive. Specifically, I mean that the tool does not simply search for and highlight mistakes that student writers inevitably make. Instead,

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Artificial Intelligence | Students & Educators

Randy GuardMay 8, 2018 0

Optimistic about AI and the future of work

I have good news to share about the future. Despite what you may have heard elsewhere, the future of work in a world with artificial intelligence (AI) is not all doom and gloom. And thanks to a research-backed book from Malcolm Frank, What to Do When Machines Do Everything, we

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Students & Educators

Terry HardisonMay 7, 2018 0

Writing Reviser: Choosing Better Words

Good news! We’ve revised the Writing Reviser. We’re happy to announce a number of exciting new features we’ve recently added to the Writing Reviser menu to help students select words that are more vivid, accurate, and powerful. Give meaning to those empty expressions. A new feature in the Sentence Economy

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Students & Educators

Terry HardisonMay 7, 2018 0

Writing Reviser: Making Sentences Clearer

We’ve revised and added features to Writing Reviser so that is is even more responsive to the needs of students! More specifically, we've bolstered the Writing Reviser menu to help students spot potentially problematic words and expressions, thus making their sentences clearer and more powerful. Tell the reader what “This” means.

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Students & Educators

Terry HardisonMay 7, 2018 0

Writing Reviser: Improving Sentence Variety

Here’s good news! In the spirit that even good work can get better with revision, we’ve revised Writing Reviser. We think you'll be especially excited about a couple of new features to help students revise words and expressions in ways that will make their sentences more varied and powerful. Draw on

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Advanced Analytics | Students & Educators

Data science education: matching up expectations and reality

Jaimy van DijkApril 26, 2018 0

Data science education: matching up expectations and reality

The SAS Data Science and Advanced Analytics Forum brings together businesses and universities, and at a recent event, universities described courses that focused on providing students with technical skills and competencies to handle data, together with some understanding of how data scientists use software. Businesses, however, emphasised the importance of

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Analytics | Internet of Things | Students & Educators

Randy GohApril 25, 2018 0

IoT use cases on display at new innovation centre

A future of flying cars and Minority Report-styled predictive dashboards may still be some time away, but the possibilities of robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered automation are a reality today. From connected cars to smart homes and offices, we see daily how big data and the Internet of Things (IoT)

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Students & Educators

Lucy KosturkoApril 25, 2018 0

What's New for May 2018

Spring brings warmer weather, blooming flowers, and new resources from Curriculum Pathways! Don't miss these exciting lessons and updates. Writing Reviser Our April release features dramatic new enhancements to Writing Reviser. To improve the sentence economy section, Writing Reviser now highlights expletives—words or phrases (e.g., "There are...") that often gum

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SAS Events | Students & Educators

竹村尚大April 25, 2018 0

SAS Global Forum Academic Summit レポート

4月8日から9日まで、米国コロラド州デンバーにおいて、年次のSASグローバルイベント「SAS Global Forum」が開催されました。今年のSAS Global Forumには、2月に開催された和歌山県データ利活用コンペティションにてSAS賞を受賞した専修大学のチームを招待しました。 SAS Global Forumでは、毎回、学生・教員が参加するAcademic Summitが開催されますが、今年も4月8日に開催された本イベントをレポートいたします。

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Artificial Intelligence | Students & Educators

Michela GuerraApril 24, 2018 0

Hackathon: It takes heart and brains to be data driven

What if a famous soccer team asks you to predict how many tickets for their next match will be sold to women? Seventy students from Bicocca University of Milan tried to answer this question a couple of weeks ago. They were divided into 19 groups during a hackathon that SAS

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Students & Educators

Terry HardisonApril 6, 2018 0

Why in the World Do We Need Poetry?

Every April we celebrate National Poetry Month, a time when verse-loving educators, media specialists, booksellers, and publishers introduce novel ways to promote poetry. Teachers plan special units on the Romantics, poetry lovers attend readings and symposiums, and we all expect to see releases of new and old titles. It’s a

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