Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Introducing the First Annual SCS Census kskordal Tue, 10/15/2024 - 11:56 Image This 10-minute survey, developed by the SCS Data Committee, aims to provide a picture of the field of Classical Studies in 2024—because we can’t know where we are going until we know where we are. Like the US Census, the SCS Census has the mission to provide timely, accurate, and actionable information about the field to its members, including decision-makers at all levels.

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The Effortful Educator

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For the past six or seven years I have started my class (almost) every day the same way…with retrieval practice. This is usually a quick review of information covered from the last class meeting or of information we’ve covered in past lessons that directly relate to what we will discussing today. Four or five multiple-choice questions, a short-answer question or two, labeling a diagram…the type of questions posed change from time to time, but the idea that students need to retr

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Change is an inevitable constant in education. If it isn’t, it surely should be. While it can be met with resistance, effective leaders understand that it is often necessary for growth, innovation, and, most importantly, to meet the needs of students. As a principal, I vividly remember spearheading several major change initiatives such as improved grading practices, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), selection and implementation of a new evaluation system, development of the Academies at NMHS, adopti

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 12, 2024

by TeachThought Staff What is learned helplessness? Definition Learned helplessness is a psychological condition in which a person, after repeated failures or negative experiences, believes they have no control over situations’ outcomes and stops trying to improve or change them. Below is an example of Learned Helplessness in the classroom. Instructor: The biggest fear for an adolescent, written throughout this text, is not fitting in.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 13, 2024

For Indigenous Peoples’ Day, here are recommended classroom resources. The People vs. Columbus, et al. Updated Version The People vs. Columbus trial has been my most successful and popular lesson. Not only do students learn the extent of the atrocities committed by Spanish colonizers, they also engage in higher order thinking on the factors that cause historical atrocities to occur.

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History Social Studies Humanities Cultures 142

History Tech

OCTOBER 10, 2024

I got the chance this week to chat a bit with my kids – both now in Minnesota. And during the convo with the youngest, we ended up talking about a letter written by a Norwegian ski instructor in 1943.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 12, 2024

We make lasting connections through play, but the role of play in learning is an idea that continues to meet resistance. Part of the reason could be tone. We like our learning serious, intentional, and academic. This is reflected through a parallel insistence on an outcomes-based learning system where learning objectives are determined and assessments are written before hand, and subsequent instruction is revised based only on data taken from said assessments.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Op-eds are an important vehicle for anthropologists to bring their ideas and arguments to a broader audience. Over the past 20 years, Mark Mansperger (professor, Washington State University-Tri-Cities) has published more than 45 op-eds in the Tri-City Herald , on topics ranging from politics to economics to the environment. The Journal of Northwest Anthropology (JONA) has just released Mark’s memoir, My Ideological Battle: Confronting Social Dogma with Anthropological Op-Eds.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The post 5 Engaging Ways to Celebrate Digital Citizenship Week appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Mountainous regions have long attracted early human populations, but the reasons behind this preference are becoming clearer thanks to new research. A recent study published in Science Advances 1 by scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University reveals that the diverse ecosystems within these terrains played a crucial role in human evolution.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Best Science Podcasts by TeachThought Staff Today, there is a wealth of content out there that’s both educational and entertaining, including some pretty amazing shows on scientific topics that are equally interesting to the layman and the professional. Whether you’re just getting into listening to science podcasts or are looking for a few new shows to add to your weekly collection, we’ve highlighted what we think are some of the best science podcasts out there right now.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This week was all about leveraging EduProtocols to simplify learning, foster creativity, and reinforce key concepts. From using Thin Slides and Cybersandwich to explore complex topics like Bacon’s Rebellion and race-based slavery, to engaging students with retrieval-based activities like Graph and Tell and Thick Slides , the focus was on making learning more accessible and engaging.

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Geography Government History Cultures 89

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

MONTCLAIR, N.J. — As a high-school senior in New Jersey, Ernesto Reyes Velasco couldn’t envision himself taking the leap to become an independent college student. Neither of his parents, who are immigrants from Mexico, had gone to college. He didn’t have close friends as examples. Money was tight. But this past summer Reyes Velasco spent five weeks on Montclair State University’s campus as part of a program designed to support incoming first-year low-income students.

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Tutoring Social Science Cultures Research 62

Strange Maps

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A rising tide, in the phrase popularized by JFK, lifts all boats. It’s a vivid allegory for the president’s preferred path to general prosperity. But its sunny optimism hides a more sinister aspect of the ebb and flow of the open seas. If you’re caught out on the foreshore of a place where the difference between low and high water is big enough to drown you — and you’re boatless and on foot — a rising tide can turn menacing, even deadly.

Education 60

Education 60

Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Reality of Ancient European Appearance A fascinating look into Europe’s prehistoric past is challenging modern perceptions of skin pigmentation. Ancient DNA analyses indicate that prehistoric Europeans possessed a phenotype that contrasts sharply with today’s northern European populations. The discovery of this information, however, has sparked controversy, as some struggle to reconcile the scientific evidence with contemporary understandings of race and identity.

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Museum 72

ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2024

On the spectrum of professional experience for K-12 teachers, I am decidedly on the greener side. Although I knew I had a passion for teaching before entering college, I always had this idea in my head that teaching K-12 education wasn’t a real or appropriate profession for an Ivy League, engineering graduate like myself. Instead of industry or academia, however, I joined the stream of my peers entering the world of business management consulting.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Anthropologist David Graeber’s celebrated theory of “b t jobs” continues to provide a critical window into why modern work is often so useless, soul-sucking, and absurd. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Imagine sending your 4-year-old to preschool knowing they will spend nearly all day happily traipsing through the woods, climbing trees and resting in hammocks. Imagine that they also take part in what most of us would view as risky activities for a preschooler, like building fires and using knives to whittle figures out of sticks. For children growing up in Norway, this is a daily reality in the country’s “barnehagen”: child care programs designed for children ages 1 through 6.

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Humanities Teaching Education 60

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The post Empowering Change at Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Leadership 74

Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Unraveling the Complex Origins of Homo sapiens At the core of understanding human evolution lies the question of human nature. Were early Homo sapiens inherently peaceful or aggressive? Did they dominate through conquest, or did they survive through cooperation Recent fossil and genetic discoveries increasingly suggest that ancient humans were more collaborative than combative.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 10, 2024

When Meta held its annual conference at the end of September, the tech giant announced it is betting that the next wave of computing will come in the form of smart eyeglasses. Mark Zuckberberg, Meta’s founder and CEO, held up what he described as the first working prototype of Orion, which lets wearers see both the physical world and a computer display hovering in the field of vision.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Raj Vinnakota talks with Sharon McMahon, "America's Government Teacher," about her new book, The Small and The Mighty, combatting misinformation online, and the value of conversations across differences.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Dawn of Dusk is a creative combination of the “fiction science” and “magic realism” writings of Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr., and the lifetime of theatrical production on stages all over the country by Dr. Jack Wann. These three One-Act plays will transform your performance space into other worlds, often surreal, but always provocative and exciting.

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Humanities 52

Living Geography

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Another Wednesday means it's time for another Worldly Wednesday. I started early as I had meetings to prepare for - a consultancy project first where I was providing some feedback and guidance and had some interesting inputs from experts in the area. I worked on some ideas for the forthcoming Curriculum Review. Yesterday, I chaired a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society's Education Committee.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 16, 2024

A 5,000-year-old stone-paved cellar has been uncovered beneath a Neolithic dwelling during an excavation on Falster Island, Denmark. This significant find occurred during construction work for a railway and offers new insights into Middle Neolithic life in Scandinavia. The root cellar, measuring about 6.5 by 5 feet, represents an important addition to our understanding of early agricultural societies in the region.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2024

One of Shane Woods’ favorite memories as executive director of Girlstart, a nonprofit that aims to empower girls in the sciences, was as a participant taking her own goddaughter to the organization’s back-to-school extravaganza. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. They zipped through activities with rockets and robots, and Woods asked her goddaughter — named Sailor — what she thought of it all when they were heading home.

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Women's History Network

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The 33rd annual conference, which will take place on 4-5 September, 2025 will explore and celebrate women in the archives, libraries and museums and the challenge of uncovering their presence. We encourage approaches that foreground marginalised voices and imaginative approaches. Papers which address aspects from all nations and time periods are welcomed.

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TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In today’s classrooms, using technology isn’t just a nice extra—it’s a must-have. With schools facing the challenges of remote learning, different learning styles, and changing dynamics, video activities have become an important tool for teachers. While watching videos can be passive, activities that effectively use video teaching strategies engage students in active learning.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 16, 2024

It's ten years since the Detectorists was first shown - in early October 2014. It was the focus of an article in today's Guardian newspaper. "Something special" indeed. Here's a reminder of the review I wrote of Jo Norcup and Innes Keighren's rather wonderful book. "Alright geography degree, where should we be searching?" I've been waiting for this book for some time, and it's lovely to finally hold it in my hand and flick through its contents before diving in.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Archaeological discoveries in East Timor’s Laili rock shelter have unveiled evidence 1 of ancient human habitation dating back approximately 44,000 years. This finding, led by an international team of archaeologists, contributes significantly to understanding the migration and adaptation patterns of early humans in Southeast Asia. The evidence gathered from stone tools, animal bones, and sediment analysis paints a picture of human life in this region over 35,000 years before the constructi

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 15, 2024

When Gina Petersen graduated with her associate degree from Kirkwood Community College two years ago, she described it as “the biggest accomplishment I have ever done.” As a returning adult college student, she had struggled to fit her studies in part time, online, while working as a trainer for a tech company. She had gotten that job through connections, and she hoped that a college degree would be a big help if she ever needed to find a new job in the future.

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Civics for All of US

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Happy 250th Birthday, America! Natalie Rocchio Tue, 10/15/2024 - 12:18 Body This Civics for All of US distance learning program is available for groups of 10 or more students free of charge. Each program will be led by one of our educators located at National Archives sites, the Center for Legislative Archives, and Presidential Libraries across the country.

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TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In today’s classrooms, using technology isn’t just a nice extra—it’s a must-have. With schools facing the challenges of remote learning, different learning styles, and changing dynamics, video teaching strategies have become an important tool for teachers. While watching videos can be passive, video teaching strategies engage students in active learning.

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Teaching Education K-12 Critical Thinking 52

Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Lesson 8: Know Your Candidates (Grades K-3) Updated Oct. 9, 2024 • Studies Weekly Objective for the Lesson This lesson will provide some general guidelines and information to help students understand how citizens register to vote. Weekly Summary We understand that in order to vote, you have to be a citizen and at least 18 years old. What happens next?

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Microscopic analysis of sediments from Tam Pà Ling cave in northeastern Laos has revealed new insights into early Homo sapiens in mainland Southeast Asia. The site, studied for over 14 years by an international team from Flinders University and other institutions, contains some of the oldest human fossils in the region. Recent findings 1 provide a detailed reconstruction of the cave's ground conditions between 52,000 and 10,000 years ago, offering fresh perspectives on human occupation and

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Humanities Research 75

ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2024

On a bright, sunny day, a group of first-graders eagerly begins a science investigation called “Shadow Town.” The teacher gathers them in a circle and asks, “What causes shadows?” It’s a good question. The students are all familiar with shadows, have had fun with them and no doubt played shadow puppets, but that’s different from being able to explain them.

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Civics for All of US

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Natalie Rocchio Tue, 10/15/2024 - 12:39 Body This Civics for All of US distance learning program is available for groups of 10 or more students free of charge. Each program will be led by one of our educators located at National Archives sites, the Center for Legislative Archives, and Presidential Libraries across the country.

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