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Beyond human, yet human nonetheless: how demigods approach death from Uruk to Troy

Society for Classical Studies

Beyond human, yet human nonetheless: how demigods approach death from Uruk to Troy Elena Limongelli, Merton College, University of Oxford Information Ar… Fri, 11/22/2024 - 15:33 Session/Panel Title SCS-93: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Unconventional Elements in Homeric Poetry Session/Paper Number 93.1

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A Classroom Research Project with Lasting Meaning

Teaching Anthropology

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. 2018) Family trees, selfies and our search for identity. New York: Penguin Random House. Nicolson, P.

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A Technologist Spent Years Building an AI Chatbot Tutor. He Decided It Can’t Be Done.

ED Surge

That AI tool had pulled off some big wins, including beating humans on the Jeopardy quiz show in 2011. He says his team spent about five years trying, and along the way they helped build some small-scale attempts into learning products, such as a pilot chatbot assistant that was part of a Pearson online psychology courseware system in 2018.

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Study: Students work harder when they think they are being watched

The Hechinger Report

A photo from a 2018 report shows a teacher using Lumilo smart glasses, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, in an experiment. Yet even advocates of educational technology recognize the motivating power of a human teacher to encourage a demoralized student or clear up a point of confusion. Student psychology appears to be at play.

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Want resilient and well-adjusted kids? Let them play

The Hechinger Report

That finding motivated Brown to ask more questions about play and its role in healthy human development. The parallelism between their play deficiencies, and the objective problems in forming trusting social bonds with others seems very significant,” concluded Brown in a 2018 article. Children play a game at a forest school.

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Leonard B. Glick

Anthropology News

Some might think that the height of his medical career was when he gave draftee Elvis Presley his physical and psychological examination, but for Len it was his service as an intern at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Len was born and raised in Baltimore, and as son of an honored physician it seemed inevitable that he would be one, too.

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College students to administrators: Let’s talk about mental health

The Hechinger Report

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. And the interest is coming from presidents and provosts.”. At Concordia, as for many of the 400 schools that have worked with JED, outreach followed tragedy.