Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

2007; Klassen, Perry & Frenzel, 2012; McIlveen & Perera, 2016; Perera, Granziera, et al., It suggests the importance of relationships and human connection in the teaching profession. Many aspects of a teacher’s work can function to increase or decrease their engagement.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The evolution of the human brain is one of the most remarkable chapters in our species' history. With its unparalleled size and complexity, the human brain consumes a disproportionate amount of energy relative to the rest of the body. Squirrel monkeys ( Saimiri sciureus ), another large-brain species.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2016 it was 79 percent. But fewer people are enrolled in technical schools, meaning the system conferred about 3,000 fewer degrees, diplomas and certificates in 2016 than 2011. The post DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory” appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Sapiens

MARCH 12, 2024

On a visit to feline-friendly Turkey, an anthropologist considers what long-standing practices of caring for cats reveal about human societies. Kedi , a 2016 documentary by Ceyda Torun, featured the everyday lives of several of these community cats who are owned by no one but cared for by many. Cats are all over Turkey.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 22, 2020

Though Adam & Jamie stopped hosting in 2016, the reruns and spin-offs continue. Because rumors, myths, and curiosity are a part of what it means to be human. Since 2003, Discovery’s show Mythbusters has been a smash hit. Finding answers to questions we’ve wondered about helps us process and move on with new knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

The proportion of undergraduates who receive bachelor’s degrees in the humanities has fallen from a high of one in six to about one in 20 , according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Anthropology modules appear in programs in three programs I have taught: Archaeology and Anthropology, Human Sciences, and Music. I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012). Lumpkin, A. &

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 13, 2024

21, 2016, to protest police violence against Standing Rock Water Protectors. Ultimately, the film is hopeful, as it focuses on how the victims of Columbus and those who came after have themselves targeted “Columbus in America” to assert their humanity, their history, and their rights. The film is free online.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Lagging behind in scientific understandings of human diversity, the medical profession is failing its oath to “do no harm.” ✽ Doctors lie daily. I learned about the impact of viruses on the human genome and spoke at conferences about how our evolutionary past made us subject to diseases in modern environments.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 6, 2018

Last night I watched an episode of Black Mirror , which Netflix describes as “ sci-fi anthology series explores a twisted, high-tech near-future where humanity’s greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide.” Netflix (2016).”Nosedive” ”Nosedive” Black Mirror.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2021

But many of them aren’t from humans. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is being used to shoot off these seemingly personal appeals and deliver pre-written information through chatbots and text personas meant to mimic human banter. AI grading “does it better, more quickly and probably making fewer errors than humans.”

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. archaeologists study past humans and societies primarily through their material remains – the buildings, tools, and other artifacts that constitute what is known as the material culture left over from former societies. How were those pots used?

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

A recent not-yet-peer-reviewed analysis 1 of ancient and modern genomes suggests that contemporary human Neanderthal DNA originated from a single, prolonged period of mixing approximately 47,000 years ago. Introduction A new study, recently released as a preprint on bioRxiv , sharpens the timeline for this crucial period in human history.

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The Effortful Educator

AUGUST 5, 2024

October 2016. Part I includes research and evidence explaining what we know about how humans learn and memory processing…information that is vital to a teacher doing their job effectively. As Sweller, Ayers, and Kalyuga stated in their book , “Without knowledge of human cognitive processes, instructional design is blind.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

The increase in umpire errors buttresses the idea that humans have only so much attention span that can be depleted after a period of intense effort or concentration. The good news, according to this study, is that humans can quickly reset their attention spans.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

More than 26 members of local and national media were on hand for the splashy announcement (a detail that Carvalho noted in his remarks), and the event also featured a human dressed in a costume of the shiny animated character of Ed, which has also long been a mascot of the school district, for attendees to take selfies with.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

billion in grants between 2010 and 2016. billion between 2010 and 2016 to education nonprofits and researchers for the purpose of developing and testing new ideas in the classroom. Credit: Staff/ The Hechinger Report Education journalism is chock full of stories touting some brand new idea that could fix schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Yet the state left $14 million in federal VR dollars on the table in 2015 and again in 2016, even as the agency temporarily shut its doors to new clients. Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam took office in January 2011, and that year brought in Raquel Hatter to lead the Department of Human Services, which oversees the state’s VR agency.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: The Alcorn School District in north Mississippi, which has been prioritizing literacy in the youngest grades for the past few years, is among several districts examining what initiatives have most helped improve literacy scores.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: In some cash-strapped Mississippi school districts, families only have to drive one county over to see what a well-resourced school district looks like. A partial explanation: The 2016 report didn’t include districts classified by the U.S. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

That’s when British colonizers switched their trade focus from gold to human beings, and the trade of enslaved people intensified in West Africa and across the Atlantic. As Logan wrote in a 2016 American Anthropologist article , “chronic food insecurity is a condition that was made rather than a condition that has always been.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: We’ve known for quite some time that pollution is bad for your health but researchers are documenting how it affects our brains. A 2016 Israel study found that high rates of pollution on the day of an exam tamped down high school test scores. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Grade inflation accelerated after 2016 and intensified during the pandemic, as schools relaxed standards. But college professors didn’t report a similar academic deterioration with their humanities students. The Hechinger Report has also found that college students are struggling with basic math.)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

Buckley’s opinion carries special weight because he helped lead the 2016 redesign of the SAT. In 2016, the free response essay was revamped into a written analysis of a text, akin to a college assignment, and made optional. The College Board charges only $16 more for the optional essay portion.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

For elective courses, he said, they will be able to choose from topics like conflict resolution, death and the meaning of life, the role of the military in the modern world, military psychology, human memory, social ethics, human behavior in crisis, political psychology and an array of other courses on specific wars.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: “There are tremendous opportunities,” Isaacs said. “It Nearly 60 percent of teachers reported using games in their classrooms in 2016, according to Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up survey, up from 23 percent in 2010. Using instructional games has becoming increasingly popular.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Early research seemed promising. By late 2016 even proponents openly worried that schools had moved too quickly. The Maine study was supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a unit of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

He recalls speaking with a white student he was advising at public Binghamton University in upstate New York, where just 4 percent of tenure-track instructors in 2016 were black, according to federal figures. “He percent of tenure-track instructors in 2016 were black, while 2.7 At the University of Washington, federal data show, 1.8

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2022

Play is a natural human behavior. Photo credit: Monica French, 2016) At the height of quarantine, I found myself flashing back to Ms. Fortunately, play is a natural human behavior. Beyond it being the children’s favorite activity, I didn’t fully understand why play would be so important on that particular day.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services. Leave this field empty if you're human: “The goal is to get kids moving throughout the school day,” Hillman said. Forty-one states require physical education at the middle school level, according to the 2016 annual report by SHAPE , and 46 require it in high school. In the U.S.,

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

8) for teaching controversial and sensitive histories (inspired by work from colleagues such as Mohamud & Whitburn, 2016; Mohamud & Whitburn, 2019; Elias & Spafford, 2021; Kerridge & Snelson, 2022) that provide a valuable tool for developing our approach to handling this challenge in the classroom. pdf Kello, K. Lindberg, M.

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Anthropology 365

APRIL 11, 2023

Humans and Javelinas: Something Something… I need a title … This study is motivated by the broad pressing question: How do we live in a world full of difference? In these regions, their lives become entangled with those of the humans with whom they share these spaces.

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Strange Maps

JANUARY 31, 2024

26,250 ft) counts as the “Death Zone,” where the air is too thin to sustain human life for long. By the 1990s, and until 2016 (the end date of this graph), the highest concentration of deadly events is between Camp IV and the summit. Everything above 8,000 m (app. The lack of oxygen here only adds to their predicament.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Wisconsin Scholars Grant recipients were 42 percent more likely to declare a STEM major than their peers, the study found. During the 2015-2016 school year, most of the family-dependent Pell students came from households making less than $40,000 a year, according to the College Board.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

More than 10,000 of the students had answered questions on their technology use in the spring of fifth grade in 2016. Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that social interaction while gaming or using social media can be healthy for adolescent development.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Since the fall of 2016, the communications department at Dominguez Hills has banned smartphones, laptops and other personal technology in every classroom — with grade deductions for violations — except for teacher-guided use and “tech breaks” during longer classes such as Eames’s. My guess is it will go to 5 hours plus. I need a break.’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

After Neil built the platform in 2003, several early studies showed promising results , and then a large randomized control trial (RCT) in Maine, published in 2016, confirmed them. One-size-fits-all instruction may not be perfect, but it keeps the humans in the picture.

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