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Authentic Learning Can't Be Standardized

A Principal's Reflections

Please visit the blog for an in-depth look at the dedicated students who participated in HST 2013 as they reflect upon what they learned. The culminating learning activity is the ultimate creative artifact where students compile everything they learned into a book and documentary using Adobe tools.

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A Solar Plea: The Mystery of Bornholm’s Engraved Sun Stones

Anthropology.net

Researchers led by Rune Iversen from the University of Copenhagen have pieced together evidence that connects these enigmatic artifacts to a period of climate upheaval. The Stones of Bornholm Between 2013 and 2018, archaeologists excavated over 600 intricately carved stones from ritual sites on Bornholm.

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Excavation and Education: Lessons Learned as Teaching Assistants in the Schreiber Wood Project Field School

Teaching Anthropology

The SWP field school offers UTM students the opportunity to be trained in archaeological excavation within their campus grounds. While teaching assistants like us come and go, the collective experience of past teaching assistants echoes through time in field notes, excavation guides, and organizational systems.

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The Power of Video

A Principal's Reflections

The students were able to learn particular aspects of a survivor’s story, record reflections, and actually create a video utilizing testimony clips and artifacts to tell their impression of a particular survivor’s story. The learning connects students to the past, engages them in the present, and motivates them to build a better future.

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The Geometry of Memory: How Knots Carry the Weight of Human History

Anthropology.net

Many knotted artifacts remain tucked away in storage, undocumented and undigitized. Looking Ahead—A Digital Rosetta Stone for Cordage This new database doesn’t just rewrite what’s known about prehistoric technology—it gives museums and researchers a digital toolkit to reexamine existing collections.

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Teacher Engagement Part I: Understanging Cognitive Engagement in Blended Learning Environments

Catlin Tucker

A teacher’s cognitive engagement is the degree of attention to and investment in their work (Klassen, Yerdelen & Durksen, 2013). What aspects of a teacher’s work lead them to engage in problem-solving, critical thinking, and reflection?

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Empire in a Shell: How Iron Age Craftspeople on the Carmel Coast Turned Snails into Royal Power

Anthropology.net

The site yielded over 175 artifacts connected to dye manufacture: vat fragments, crushed shells, grinding stones, and purple-streaked potsherds. Excavations show the site housed a series of workshops, each with massive clay vats, some over 70 centimeters wide, many stained with a deep purple band where oxidized dye once sloshed.