TeachThought

MARCH 26, 2025

The goal of the model isn't content knowledge (though it should produce that), but rather something closer to wisdom--learning how to learn.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

Neanderthals are often recognized for their distinct facial features—large, forward-projecting midfaces, prominent brow ridges, and wide nasal openings. In contrast, modern humans have relatively smaller, flatter faces with retracted midfaces and more delicate bone structures. For decades, researchers have debated the evolutionary forces behind these differences.

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TeachThought

MARCH 23, 2025

Reading strategies useful in every content area include Questioning the text, Visualization, and using Context Clues to infer meaning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2025

In late January, the White House instructed the Department of Defense to craft a plan that would make funds available for military families to pay for public charters and private religious schools. Its part of the administrations push to decentralize education, which comes along with a burst of energy for school choice options around the country. The administration argues that unlocking funding will give families options and lead to better outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

Elijah Gregory had overcome a lot by the time he arrived at North Central Texas College in Flower Mound as a freshman at 19. He had contended with physical health issues, depression and anxiety. He had lost a parent to addiction. And hed struggled to finish high school. So he was proud to achieve the next step, enrolling in community college. But when Gregory got there, he felt lost and lonely.

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 26, 2025

Today, I ran a new Rack and Stack using some familiar EduProtocols but with a fresh flow. The whole lesson was built around this opening statement: The Lowell Mill Girls had an extraordinary opportunity. That one sentence carried us through the entire class. I wanted students to come back to it over and over again, thinking critically about whether or not it was actually true.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

One of the perks of Angie Adams job at Samsung is that every year, she gets to witness how some of the countrys most talented emerging scientists are tackling difficult problems in creative ways. Theyre working on AI tools that can recognize the signs of oncoming panic attacks for kids on the autism spectrum in one case, and figuring out how drones can be used effectively to fight wildfires in another.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2025

Will Geiger estimates that he read about 10,000 college application essays over the course of a years-long career in college admissions and scholarships before ChatGPT came on the scene in 2022. Shortly afterwards, Geiger began to notice that essays felt less and less like they had been written by 17- or 18-year-olds. He saw more hyperorganized five-paragraph essays; more essays that were formatted as a letter to someone; and certain examples and words being used over and over again by different

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 24, 2025

The 50th Anniversary of the Louisville Grotto’s “Speleofest” held in Hart County, Kentucky, at their Lone Star Cave Preserve, Memorial Day Weekend, 2022. Here is a virtual tour of the cave’s interior! (Click on my Vimeo link below, if the video doesnt immediately show) The Life and Landscapes Blog Site is at: www.vanstockum.blog/lookin Also find me at: www.facebook.com/reggievanstockum www.instagram.com/reggievanstockum www.vimeo.com/reggievanstockum www.youtube.com @regg

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TeachThought

MARCH 24, 2025

It is suggested that the brain does not have one learning system but four--each with its own unique memory pattern and accompaniments.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

Looking back on my educational journey, I recently reflected on my classroom experiences from kindergarten to fourth grade. The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program. Before that moment, I was blending in with my peers and navigating the typical challenges of elementary school.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

The early human settlement of South America stands as one of the last great migrations in human history, yet the environmental conditions that shaped this journey remain debated. New research by Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, published in Nature Communications 1 , suggests that humans did not simply follow stable climates but adapted to fluctuating conditions, sometimes settling in areas experiencing severe cold.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

For the past century, we have treated intelligence as something measurable a score on an IQ test, a standardized exam or a checklist of marketable skills. Education systems were built on the belief that if we filled young minds with enough knowledge, progress would follow. We rewarded students for getting the right answers, for competing rather than collaborating, for mastering subjects rather than navigating human relationships.

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Edthena

MARCH 25, 2025

Big news! Edthena is proud to announce our collaboration with researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Albany on an AI-based multi-modal neural network project funded by the Gates Foundation. In non-tech speak, it’s a computer that watches and listens to classroom activities to give teachers helpful feedback. The groundbreaking AI feedback system will be unlike anything available today.

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TeachThought

MARCH 22, 2025

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making of something after it is found.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Migration is always more than just a transferit is a point of tension where preservation, power, and priorities intersect. Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. Digital artifacts follow the same patterns. When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

Archaeology often deals with what remains—the bones, the stone tools, the charred remnants of ancient hearths. But in the upland regions of Warner Valley, Oregon, a different kind of evidence is telling the story of early human diets: microscopic starch granules trapped in the cracks of bedrock metates. These stone grinding surfaces, found alongside rock art panels and other cultural features, are yielding the first direct evidence of plant processing in this landscape.

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Sapiens

MARCH 25, 2025

For the eighth season of the SAPIENS podcast, were meeting at a crossroads of culturespast and presentin search of humanitys collective destination. Culture is a force that makes us who we are. It drives social interactions and relationships, shapes beliefs and politics, ignites imaginations, and molds identities. Cultural conflicts are at the heart of many crises facing the worldincreasing inequality, persistent bigotry, ecological collapse.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2025

As PTA president at my childrens school, I rely on social media to keep families informed about everything from sports and musicals to important school updates. But Ive also seen firsthand how it can be distracting or be used to share comments that conflict with school values. It is particularly hard to create a healthy digital school culture when school leaders have little control over removing content, such as confession accounts, fight accounts and impersonation accounts.

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TeachThought

MARCH 24, 2025

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow learners access to free courses facilitated by top educators and experts in every subject area.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

At 10 a.m., I arrived at Campo Los Soles, a 2000-acre field of grapes with temperatures up to 122 Fahrenheit and 20 miles from Hermosillo City, northwestern Mexico. The 2000 acres are completely fenced with barbed wires, and private security employees are watching the limits of the property day and night. Its main entrance is a 35-foot-high arch with the words Los Soles above two closed gates, a security checkpoint cabin, and corporate advertisements with Mexican and US agribusiness brand logos.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 25, 2025

For decades, the prevailing view of Neanderthal subsistence has been simple: they were apex predators, consuming large amounts of meat, perhaps more than any other known hominin. Nitrogen isotope ratios in Neanderthal bones have suggested a diet even richer in animal protein than that of hyenas or cave lions. But a new study proposes a different explanation—one that suggests Neanderthals were eating something most modern humans would consider unthinkable: maggots.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

In todays elementary classrooms, a heavy emphasis on standardized test preparation has led to a significant imbalance in instructional time. While English language arts (ELA) and mathematics dominate daily schedules, subjects like social studies and science are often sidelined. However, research increasingly shows that integrating knowledge-rich instruction across subjects is essential for improving literacy, critical thinking, and overall student success.

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Living Geography

MARCH 24, 2025

One of the projects I've been working on for over a year now is connected with Minecraft for an educational project. Here are the details as shared in an Environment Agency report in January 2025 (ahead of our completion of the project and trialling in the last few weeks). Coastcraft Game Following a successful roll-out of the online game Rivercraft developed by the Environment Agency, Microsoft and Blockbuilders, another version called Coastcraft has been developed for coastal contexts.

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TeachThought

MARCH 26, 2025

Cognitive dissonance is the psychological discomfort that arises when an individual encounters a conflict between what they believe and how they behave, or between two competing beliefs.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

The elevator doors opened to the smell of coffee, olive oil, and cumin. Salam! Ayoub called out. Salam, I answered, barely awake. I had brought bread and oranges. Ayoub was busy frying eggs. Dawn, as I was to find out, was his favorite time of day: awake while everybody else was asleep, it was as if the shelters kitchen was his own. Ayoub and I had first met months earlier, in the same kitchen, in the basement of an emergency shelter for migrants, on the outskirts of a small town in the French A

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 25, 2025

Stone tools are often thought of as deliberately crafted artifacts, chipped and shaped by early hominins to serve a particular function. But new research suggests that at least some of the earliest tools may not have been made, but rather, found. A study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International , examines naturally occurring basalt spheres from the Pleistocene archaeological sites of Melka Kunture, Ethiopia.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Elementary education has traditionally prioritized English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics, often sidelining social studies. However, recent research highlights the crucial role of social studies instruction in developing strong reading skills. Despite mounting pressure to improve literacy rates, many schools continue to dedicate limited instructional time to social studies.

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Living Geography

MARCH 26, 2025

The Guna indigenous people have inhabited the island of Gardi Sugdub, one of the 365 islands in the Guna Yala archipelago in Panama, for over 100 years. However, experts predict that this Panamanian island might become uninhabitable in less than 30 years. Driven by rising sea levels and overcrowding, 300 families from this indigenous community have become Panama's first official climate refugees.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 21, 2025

CFP: Tacitism: Ethics, Politics and Europe 16th-18th c. kskordal Fri, 03/21/2025 - 10:39 Image Tacitism: Ethics, Politics and Europe 16th-18th c. Warsaw 18-20 September 2025 Rooted in the works of the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus, the Tacitist voice exerted an important influence on political discourse during the long century from the late 16th to the early 18th century.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 25, 2025

(19342025) William K. Powers, scholar of Lakota life and culture, died on January 5, 2025, at the age of 90. Though he recovered strongly from two strokes in recent years, Bill became immobile in his final months, and he passed peacefully at home in the company of his family. At the time of his death, Bill had participated in Lakota (Teton Sioux) culture for 75 years.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 27, 2025

The entrance to Floyd Collins’ Crystal Cave on Flint Ridge in Mammoth Cave National Park. Reggie Van Stockum with North American Jules Verne Society scholar, Father Matthew Hardesty, on June 17, 2022.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Reading comprehension is more than just learning how to decode wordsits about understanding the world around us. Yet, many elementary classrooms dedicate minimal time to science instruction, missing a key opportunity to build background knowledge that strengthens literacy skills. Research shows that students who engage in structured science learning develop stronger vocabulary, analytical thinking, and reading comprehension.

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Living Geography

MARCH 21, 2025

Some countries that have historically relied on oil for their economic development are now looking to a future post peak-oil (although that is not looking like being any time soon for the USA now.). This is an area that I have been writing about for a while now. Petrostates are those whose economy relies on oil. They are now working out what their post-oil, diversified economy may be based around.

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 24, 2025

Ive been reading Do I Have Your Attention? by Blake Harvard. It blends cognitive science with practical classroom ideasnothing too wild, just enough to make you stop and rethink some things. One part that really stuck with me was on cognitive load theory, especially the idea of intrinsic and extraneous load. It got me thinking about how Ive been planning, what I prioritize, and how I sometimes try to do too much when maybe I just need to step back.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 25, 2025

The Vibes Are Off: Did Elon Musk Push Academics Off Twitter? By James Bisbee , Vanderbilt University and Kevin Munger , European University Institute Twitter has been a prominent forum for academics communicating online, both among themselves and with policy makers and the broader public. Elon Musks takeover of the company brought sweeping changes to many aspects of the platform, including public access to its data; Twitters approach to censorship and mis/disinformation; and tweaks to the afford

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 20, 2025

Lonesome, Lost and Feeling Sad, a song from the new musical, Jubilee Barndance , at the Shelby County Community Theatre in Shelbyville, Kentucky on February 13, 2022. Book by Dr. Jack Wann, Lyrics by Dr. Jack Wann and Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr, with Music by Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. Cast : Maynard Spud Loomis, Reggie Van Stockum; Henry Jenkins, Maximillian A.

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