World History Teachers Blog
JANUARY 16, 2025
This MIT site " Visualizing Cultures ," is a great resource for World History and AP World when studying imperialism. The site includes outstanding visual narratives on which curriculum units are based. Most of the curriculum units ask students to analyze various images. Some of the units include the rise and fall of the Canton Trade System and the First Opium War.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 14, 2025
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The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 13, 2025
A trio of researchers argues that it’s unclear where students with disabilities learn the most and recommends that teachers and parents focus first on interventions students need. Credit: Getty images A prominent professor of special education is about to ignite a fierce debate over a tenet of his field, that students with disabilities should be educated as much as possible alongside their peers in general education classrooms, a strategy known as inclusion.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 16, 2025
When someone disappears without a trace, what remains are their possessions objects that become anchors for memory and vessels for unresolved grief. The human urge to collect and preserve objects, what Jacques Derrida calls archive fever , takeson special significance when there is no body to bury, no grave to visit. This ethnography explores one such case of preservation: my grandmother’s decades-long stewardship of my grandfather’s wardrobe after his disappearance in the 1974 con
HistoryRewriter
JANUARY 15, 2025
Working with gifted students can be challenging and time-consuming. Creating tiered assignments that offer varying levels of rigor is not easy. Allowing students to work at their own pace can become a complicated juggling act. On Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 9 pm ET/6PT Adam and I welcome Kelly Bellar to The Social Studies Show to talk about using EduProtocols with Gifted Students.
World History Teachers Blog
JANUARY 15, 2025
Here is an excellent 14-minute clip about the Meiji Revolution from the Pacific Century, the 1992 PBS 10-part documentary about the rise of the Pacific Rim. Part two, from which the attached clip comes, is about the Meiji Revolution. It is dated but still does a good job. It begins in 1868 when Mutsuhito became the Meiji Emperor.
Society for Classical Studies
JANUARY 15, 2025
Blog: Greek Myth, Martha Graham, and the Society for Classical Studies: Classicists, Archaeologists, and the Public in Philadelphia Enthralled by Martha Graham Dance Company Performance Ronnie Ancona Wed, 01/15/2025 - 11:39
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History Havoc
JANUARY 12, 2025
One of the books I have taught for the past decade has been The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Every year I talk about how the book helped pass legislation dealing with food preparation. As a class we read tiny segments of it and some students find the segments quite gross. It is never fun to talk about rats falling into the sausage and nobody taking them out just before going to lunch.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 14, 2025
RANDOLPH, Vt. The thermostat was turned low in the admissions office at Vermont State University on a cold winter morning. Its one of our efficiencies, quipped David Bergh, the institutions president, who works in the same building. Bergh was joking. But he was referring to something decidedly serious: the public university systems struggle to reduce a deficit so deep, it threatened to permanently shutter several campuses after dramatic drop-offs in enrollment and revenue.
Sapiens
JANUARY 13, 2025
A translators notes are refashioned into a poem calling for justice for Indigenous peoples in the Philippines displaced by a megadam. Translation Notes is part of the collection Poets Resist, Refuse, and Find a Way Through. Read the introduction to the collection here. In November 2023 , Ian Fry , the first U.N. Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights, met with stakeholders in the Philippines to report on the status of the country regarding environmental and human rights protectio
Digital Promise
JANUARY 16, 2025
When we invite students in as R&D partners and honor their lived experience as experts, novel and groundbreaking solutions can emerge.
ED Surge
JANUARY 14, 2025
A typical career trajectory in early care and education might follow like this: start as an assistant teacher in a classroom, eventually gain the experience to move up to lead teacher, and if youre ambitious and able, one day become the assistant director, director or even owner of a program. On paper, it seems reasonable. Each role, over time, equips the educator to step into the next one, right?
Women's History Network
JANUARY 13, 2025
We are an Injured Body: Finding Inspiration in a Class on Jane Austen My new book, Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel: Injured Minds, Ruined Lives (Manchester University Press), originated in an undergraduate class I taught in spring 2020 at the University of Alabama called Jane Austen and the Injured Body.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 15, 2025
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand Many students in New Zealand have a story to tell about streaming being grouped into separate math classes based on their perceived ability to master the subject. Manaaki Waretini-Beaumont, now 18 and an environmental science major at the University of Canterbury, learned about the downside of streaming when she enrolled in Avonside Girls, a 1,000-student high school in Christchurch.
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 16, 2025
Nearly 5,000 years ago, an island community in what is now Denmark faced a darkened sky and dwindling harvests. Archaeologists believe they turned to an extraordinary ritual 1 , burying hundreds of engraved stones adorned with sun and plant motifs as an offering to restore balance. Recent findings from Bornholm, a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, suggest these decorated stones—known as "sun stones"—may have been linked to a massive volcanic eruption.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 16, 2025
Gabriela, an 81-year-old-woman, showed some resistance in the dimly lit room of the dilapidated long-term care facility. Amidst peeling walls, and an air saturated with neglect, nurse Luz struggled to pin Gabrielas arms to the bed rail, trying to restrain her movements so she could administer her medications without interruption. With inadequate resources and no affordable harnesses available, Luz resorted to using cloth rags.
ED Surge
JANUARY 10, 2025
Weve been crunching the numbers, and your votes are in. Heres the countdown of the top EdSurge stories about the college world in 2024, based on readership. Nearly half of the stories in our top 10 involve the impact that AI tools like ChatGPT are having on campuses. No surprise there, considering that just about every week brings new AI products, and students rushing to social media to share how theyre using them on assignments.
TCI
JANUARY 14, 2025
Engaging students in social studies goes beyond simply covering the material; its about helping them connect historical events to current issues and develop critical thinking skills. In todays rapidly changing world, students need more than just facts to succeed. Investing in high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) for social studies is essential for enhancing student achievement, fostering critical thinking, and closing the educational achievement gap.
Maitri Learning
JANUARY 12, 2025
Recent advances in neuroscience are revealing what Montessori educators have known for over a century - that learning is deeply connected to emotion, relationships, and the integration of mind and body. At the recent Montessori Schools of Massachusetts conference, I shared how cutting-edge brain research aligns with and validates core Montessori principles.
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 16, 2025
In a quiet corner of Dorset, a burial site has rewritten what we know about Iron Age Britain. By sequencing DNA from 50 individuals interred over centuries, researchers discovered 1 a striking social structure: women, not men, were at the heart of these communities. Excavating a Late Iron Age Durotriges burial at Winterborne Kingston. Credit: Miles Russell/Bournemouth University A study led by Dr.
Strange Maps
JANUARY 17, 2025
Except for things at the extreme ends of observation, everything of consequence has already been discovered. At least, thats how it seems sometimes. But even without a particle collider or a next-generation telescope , exciting discoveries can still be made. Discoveries like a decent-sized Mayan city, and sometimes, all it takes is a simple Google search.
ED Surge
JANUARY 16, 2025
I was recently sitting with my friends 9-year-old son, Guillermo, as he teed up a YouTube video on the TV. Id wanted to get a kids perspective on brain rot, Oxford University Press 2024 word of the year that describes both low-quality video content and what seemingly happens to the mind after watching too much of it. Naturally, I sought out someone with on-the-ground experience.
Living Geography
JANUARY 15, 2025
Not a new post - a few years old - but relevant today when teaching about the geography of our consumption and the impact it has on the planet. Visual Capitalist has produced a striking visualisation of which parts of the planet have been most affected by human activity.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 16, 2025
Pseudonyms have been issued for ethnographic interlocutors, monkeys, and locations. In Polyphony, an urban neighborhood in Penang, Malaysia, a woman emerges from her house carrying a long bamboo stick. Above her, a group of free-ranging dusky langur monkeys perch on her roof. Instead of angrily confronting them or calling the authorities, she gently taps the roof and shakes a nearby mango tree, causing the monkeys to descend and move away.
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 17, 2025
Nearly two million years ago, in the high-altitude landscape of the Ethiopian Highlands, early human ancestors at the Acheulian site of Melka Wakena weren’t simply grabbing the nearest stones to use as tools. Instead, their actions demonstrate a deep understanding of material properties and a sophisticated ability to plan for specific tasks. This discovery, published in PLOS ONE 1 , sheds light on the cognitive capabilities of early Acheulian toolmakers.
Society for Classical Studies
JANUARY 16, 2025
From President Kirk Ormand: The Future of the Annual Meeting kskordal Thu, 01/16/2025 - 08:43 Image Dear Colleagues, As I write this, the fires in southern California are still raging, and largely uncontrolled. Many thousands have lost their homes and their livelihoods in what will be a defining natural disaster for 2025. Among them are surely large numbers of our colleagues, friends, and students.
ED Surge
JANUARY 13, 2025
Schools should provide a window through which all students can see the future they want for themselves. Students arrive in the classroom with a diverse range of needs, and helping them succeed isnt always straightforward. Centering instruction in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and implementing both direct and student-driven instruction can help engage learners, address diverse needs and improve learning outcomes for all students.
Living Geography
JANUARY 11, 2025
A cross-posting from my Passed the point of no return blog. This piece in 'The Guardian' by Damien Gayle demonstrates the tremendous gulf between the super-rich and the average person. The worlds richest 1% have already used up their fair share of the global carbon budget for 2025, just 10 days into the year. In less than a week and a half, the consumption habits of an individual from this monied elite had already caused, on average, 2.1 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, according to analysis
Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 14, 2025
13th Amendment. Used with permission of Benjamin Slyngstad. In teaching about the wildfires in Los Angeles, a key story to include is the role of incarcerated labor.As reported on Democracy Now! Nearly a thousand of the firefighters deployed to help contain the devastating fires [in and around Los Angeles] are incarcerated. They have been working around the clock while earning as little as between $5.80 to $10.24 a day.
Maitri Learning
JANUARY 16, 2025
Teachers often ask me what level elementary teachers expect their first year students to arrive with. In many schools, the elementary teachers are hoping for solid phonetic readers. But from there, their materials often jump straight into sentence (or multi-sentence) level reading. That can be a bit of a stretch for the young child. If you find yourself in that situation, here are some things that might help.
Society for Classical Studies
JANUARY 17, 2025
2025 ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships kskordal Fri, 01/17/2025 - 09:03 Image The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) announces the seventh competition for Leading Edge Fellowships , made possible by the generous support of the Mellon Foundation. The program demonstrates the dynamic capacity of the humanities to advance justice and equity in society and illuminates career pathways for recent PhDs beyond the academy.
ED Surge
JANUARY 14, 2025
Donora, Pennsylvania, once housed a thriving steel mill that stretched for about four miles, though that factory closed more than 50 years ago. Today, the town of about 5,000 people has no gas station, no bank and no grocery store. And just a few years ago its only school closed. The shuttering of that school was particularly tough for a community that has been in decline for decades.
Living Geography
JANUARY 11, 2025
Thanks to Rob Chambers for the tipoff to this piece on The Conversation. It explains that there are lots of species who reach the tolerance limts for their continued survival at similar temperatures, which means that if these temperatures are reached, ecosystem collapse can happen quickly. Which is less than ideal.
O-Level Geography
JANUARY 16, 2025
Why is there a high probability of a mega quake in Japan? What other hazards are associated with the occurrence of an earthquake? What can be done to mitigate the impacts of earthquakes?
Geography Teacher Sharing
JANUARY 15, 2025
The AI analysis in ITT function is already integrated. Simple to use to filter the responses. AI will generate the analyse but the downside is it cannot be saved so I had to screenshot. It is simple to use - just click on the icon which I circled here. Then type in what you want AI to filter and analyse.
Political Science Now
JANUARY 16, 2025
Can Autocracy Handle Climate Change? By Shiran Victoria Shen , Stanford University Existing literature on climate politics predominantly concentrates on democracies. However, there is a pressing need to examine how authoritarian regimes respond to climate change, given their growing impact on global carbon emissions and their populations acute climate vulnerability.
ED Surge
JANUARY 17, 2025
Can I have your attention? The challenge of getting and keeping the attention of students in schools and colleges was the topic of several of our most popular episodes of the EdSurge Podcast over the past year. Part of that involved the question of whether schools should ban smartphones one of the biggest policy debates of the year in K-12 education.
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