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Polish Your Instagram Reels With CapCut Background Removal Tool

TeachThought

CapCut's desktop video editor and its Background Removal Tool can change how creators approach Instagram Reels. Source The post Polish Your Instagram Reels With CapCut Background Removal Tool appeared first on TeachThought.

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“What better way to spend my life than doing this?”

NCHE

Jen Jacobs on Multidimensionality, Memorability, and Making History Come Alive A member of our EPiC grant in Michigan, Jen Jacobs, shared her journey into teaching and the impact that journey has left on her since. Sometimes teaching isnt a first job or even a first calling. For Jen Jacobs, middle school teacher and a member of our EPiC grant, the calling of teaching came later in life.

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US History Projects

Passion for Social Studies

Teachers are always looking for creative ways to freshen up their lessons. Since student needs are constantly changing and evolving, it is essential learning does as well. One tried and true method that offers amazing engagement and interest involves projects. These allow students to express their knowledge through tons of creative outlets. For some, this may mean making a presentation.

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Global Pandemics: The Plague of Athens

World History Teachers Blog

Studying Greece? Here's a great interactive website about the Plague of Athens that provides context for Covid 19. And here is a hyperdoc that students can use as they explore the site. Follow an Athenian doctor, Nikos, as he tends to the sick and dying. Those infected by the endemic faced a horrible death. Some of the symptoms included intense fever and laceration of the bowels along with diarrhea.

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How Esports in Classrooms is Increasing Interest in STEM Activities and Encouraging Student Leadership

Digital Promise

The post How Esports in Classrooms is Increasing Interest in STEM Activities and Encouraging Student Leadership appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Revolutionizing Branding: Creative Applications of AI in Design

TeachThought

In the digital age, branding has evolved into an art and a science, requiring businesses to craft unique visual identities […] Source The post Revolutionizing Branding: Creative Applications of AI in Design appeared first on TeachThought.

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2024 Erich S. Gruen Prize

Society for Classical Studies

2024 Erich S. Gruen Prize kskordal Mon, 12/16/2024 - 08:56 Image In 2024, the fifth year of the SCS Erich S. Gruen Prize , the selection committee received submissions from graduate students across North America who present exciting new approaches to race, ethnicity, and cultural exchange as they pertain to the ancient Mediterranean. The committee was impressed by the papers quality and wide range of disciplinary perspectives, methodologies, types of evidence, and time periods.

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Empowering Schools: Linking Climate Action to Safeguarding

Geogramblings

I have long studied, and argued, that climate change is a school safeguarding issue and for me it is beggar’s belief that no policy that I have come across has mentioned the issue in terms of a risk factor to their children’s well-being and access to education. Depsite publishing numerous articles, delivering powerful talks, and facilitating workshops for school staff, I haven’t made much headway it seems.

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Building Career-Ready Skills: Insights from our 2024 Micro-Credential Pilot

Digital Promise

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The Life of a 17,000-Year-Old Infant from Ice Age Italy

Anthropology.net

In a remarkable feat of ancient DNA analysis, researchers have reconstructed the genetic story of a baby boy who lived over 17,000 years ago in Ice Age Europe. The findings, published in Nature Communications 1 , reveal a wealth of information about the boy's ancestry, physical traits, health, and the environment in which he lived, offering a rare glimpse into the lives of prehistoric humans.

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Mapped: The strange link between obesity and corruption

Strange Maps

Country-level corruption is a tough KPI to quantify. So how do organizations like Transparency International and the World Bank do it? Not by comparing the fiscal, economic, and financial data of each country theyd only end up comparing (rotten) apples to (spoiled) oranges. Instead, to arrive at their Corruption Perceptions Index and Control of Corruption Indicator (respectively), they aggregate the opinions of experts in governance and corruption.

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Should Instructors Ask Students to Show Document Histories to Guard Against AI Cheating?

ED Surge

Show your work has taken on a new meaning and importance in the age of ChatGPT. As teachers and professors look for ways to guard against the use of AI to cheat on homework, many have started asking students to share the history of their online documents to check for signs that a bot did the writing. In some cases that means asking students to grant access to the version history of a document in a system like Google Docs, and in others it involves turning to new web browser extensions that hav

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6 observations from a devastating international math test

The Hechinger Report

Country rankings of eighth graders on the 2023 TIMSS Click the list to expand. Standard errors are in parentheses. The larger the number, the more the actual average score in the countrys population could deviate from the sample of students who took the TIMSS assessment. Source: 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) An abysmal showing by U.S. students on a recent international math test flabbergasted typically restrained education researchers.It looks like student ac

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From Insights to Action: Students Lead Research on Education Challenges

Digital Promise

Three learners in the League of Innovative Students share reflections and learnings from their research to understand causes of education-related challenges in their communities.

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Neanderthal Physique: Rethinking Strength and Adaptation Through Ribcage Morphology

Anthropology.net

Neanderthals have long fascinated researchers for their unique adaptations to Ice Age climates and challenging environments. A new study in the Journal of Human Evolution 1 presents a virtual reconstruction of the Shanidar 3 ribcage, revealing distinct physiological traits that shaped their lives. The results not only affirm the "bell-shaped" thorax characteristic of Neanderthals but also challenge assumptions about their cold-adapted body plan.

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The Moral Complexities of Delegate Children in Aging China

Anthropology News

What does it entail for care practices when non-affiliated strangers manage your property and make critical life-matter decisions on your behalf? Known as delegate children, these legal guardians fill gaps left by the state welfare system while navigating complex moral dilemmas. Performing Care as a Delegate Child It was a snowy day in late December 2022 when I accompanied Xiao Zhang on her visit to a nursing home in the Jing-Jin-Ji region of northern China.

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Climate Change Survey results

Living Geography

The DfE has published the results of a survey of Climate Literacy amongst school leavers. Syliva Knight of the Royal Meteorological Society has responded on her LinkedIn account. She was one of the authors of the report: The DfE have just published the results of the 2023/ 2024 Climate Literacy Survey of school leavers (year 11 students), which builds on the initial survey we developed in 2022.

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Intergenerational Care Benefits Children and Seniors. Why Is It Still So Rare?

ED Surge

Several times a week, teachers at Tiny Images, an early learning program in Fairmont, Nebraska, load up babies and toddlers into four- and six-seater carts and take the children on buggy rides through the building. They stop first to visit residents in the assisted living wing before continuing on to those in the nursing home. Just walking down the hall and seeing kids faces light up or residents faces light up it makes your whole day, says Kaci Brandt, director of Tiny Images, which is locate

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When Students Lead: Insights from the League of Innovative Students 2024 Design Sprint

Digital Promise

Hear how the League of Innovative Students made strides in 2024 toward shaping educational experiences for their peers and driving systemic change.

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Butchered Remains at Bronze Age Charterhouse Warren Reveal Prehistoric Atrocity

Anthropology.net

At a site known as Charterhouse Warren in Somerset, England, archaeologists have uncovered a haunting scene from Britain’s Early Bronze Age. The remains of at least 37 individuals—men, women, and children—were found deep within a 15-meter shaft, their bones telling a story of violent death, butchery, and likely cannibalism. This new analysis, published in the journal Antiquity 1 , sheds unsettling light on the darker side of prehistoric human behavior.

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Disabled Worlds of Care in Middle School Classrooms

Anthropology News

In special education classrooms, students find ways to care without correction. During the four minutes of passing time, when other middle school students charged through the halls, calling out and dapping up their friends before stopping by their lockers and scrambling to get to their next classes, Justin and Laura would stand in the hall by their classroom door, waiting until the bell rang and they were allowed to return inside.

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CFP: Connections and Divisions: Landscape Features of the Ancient World

Society for Classical Studies

CFP: Connections and Divisions: Landscape Features of the Ancient World kskordal Tue, 12/17/2024 - 08:11 Image Connections and Divisions: Landscape Features of the Ancient World The Classics Department at the CUNY Graduate Center invites scholars to submit proposals for papers that explore the complex interplay between geography and society in the ancient world.

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Introducing our Spring 2025 Webinar Series, Books that Changed the National Conversation

Teaching American History

For the past year, Teaching American Historys webinars have been about the presidential election. Last spring, we broke down the presidential election cycle. We spent this fall diving into the rhetorical traditions of American politics. We dont know about you guys, but we need a break from politics! So lets take a step back and look back at an entirely different aspect of US history.

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Ypsilanti Community High School Recognized as HP AI Spotlight School, with New State-of-the-Art Learning Studio

Digital Promise

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Ancient Hierakonpolis: The Earliest Evidence of Livestock Horn Modification

Anthropology.net

Around 5,700 years ago, in the elite burial grounds of Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt, a striking practice was unfolding. Here, rulers and elites buried themselves alongside a menagerie of wild and exotic animals—crocodiles, elephants, and baboons among them. But recent archaeological findings reveal that even domestic livestock were transformed to project power and control.

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Sounding the Siren

Living Geography

The Sounding the Siren campaign looks at the role of aid workers and the growing rate of disasters happening globally as the weather becomes more extreme. This new study brings together the experiences of aid workers to present findings and recommendations for governments, aid and development organisations and concerned citizens. Disasters have become more widespread and this site explores some of the stories linked with these disasters.

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These Classes Re-Lit My Fire

Zinn Education Project

Every Zinn Education Project session not only impacts my teaching, but unravels the damage done by whitewashed histories. You give me more tools to educate my students and make me a better teacher today. Tara Micham, social studies teacher, Kansas City, Kansas Tara Micham is one of thousands of teachers learning the history missing from their own education in our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes.

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How Are U.S. Students Doing in Math? About as Well as Their Parents Did in 1995

ED Surge

The results are in and theyre not great. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. International data on math and science released earlier this month gave the globe its first chance to compare progress since the pandemic. For the United States, it appears that the COVID-19 pandemic reversed more than 20 years of progress in math scores, based on results from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study.

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How Educators Prepare Students for Real-World Learning

Digital Promise

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Decoding Ancient Lives: Unraveling the Mysteries of a Neolithic Settlement in Ukraine

Anthropology.net

Unearthing a Forgotten Past An interdisciplinary team led by Johannes Müller of Kiel University has provided a rare glimpse into the lives of Neolithic people who lived over 5,600 years ago near Kosenivka, Ukraine. The study, published in PLOS ONE 1 on December 11, 2024, uses bioarchaeological analyses to shed light on the diets, deaths, and cultural practices of this enigmatic population, linked to the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypilla culture.

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The story of a crisp

Living Geography

Crisps are popular snacks, and we eat a lot of them. Although they're not the best thing for us health wise. This video follows the story of a brand called Lays, from the potato to the pack. I am looking to update my Year 7 'Food for Thought' scheme of work to add in more references to potatoes, and this is one option. We already have a video about their journey to Scottish fish and chip shops and this will be a nice companion piece.

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Women in Intelligence during WW2

Women's History Network

8 March 2025 – Bletchley Park A day symposium covering women in intelligence during World War Two, including stories relating to individuals from all over the world. Join Bletchley Park for a day of talks and discussions revealing the often hidden stories of womens roles in intelligence during World War Two.

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CFP: NYU Graduate Collective for Ancient Studies Undergraduate Conference 2025

Society for Classical Studies

CFP: NYU Graduate Collective for Ancient Studies Undergraduate Conference 2025 kskordal Tue, 12/17/2024 - 08:14 Image The NYU Graduate Collective for Ancient Studies (GCAS), formerly the Society for Ancient Studies, is a cross-departmental graduate student group at New York University seeking to foster an interdisciplinary community of scholars with interests in the ancient world.

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Leaders of Today: Celebrating the Impact of Youth-Led Sustainability Projects

Digital Promise

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Rethinking Early Architecture: Computational Insights into Neolithic Building Practices

Anthropology.net

For decades, archaeologists have described the architectural evolution of early human settlements as a transition from circular to rectangular structures—a shift thought to reflect deeper societal changes. But a new study led by Hadas Goldgeier, Dr. Antoine Muller, and Prof. Leore Grosman from the Hebrew University challenges this simplified narrative.

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Palin on Geography

Living Geography

From 2009 - when Michael Palin took over as RGS President. "For some reason, geography is not seen as a popular subject in school. It's seen as very unglamorous. Yet when I was at school, I can remember geography offering me the chance to get out and go on field trips and go on walks, and I loved maps, I loved atlases, I loved learning about other countries and places where things were different from our own and that's all covered by geography.

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'Remember Your Why': How My Grandmothers Affirmed My Purpose as an Educator

ED Surge

One day, during a quiet afternoon in my classroom, a comment one of my colleagues said lingered in the air: Just remember your why. They said the comment with a smirk and an exaggerated shrug, their eyes rolling almost involuntarily. It registered as sarcasm, not encouragement, and I couldnt help but agree with the sentiment. Early in my career, I found solace in those words.