Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Archaeological discoveries in East Timor’s Laili rock shelter have unveiled evidence 1 of ancient human habitation dating back approximately 44,000 years. This finding, led by an international team of archaeologists, contributes significantly to understanding the migration and adaptation patterns of early humans in Southeast Asia.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Among the latest findings, researchers have uncovered bone needles crafted from the remains of fur-bearing animals, suggesting these ancient humans produced garments that helped them survive cold climates.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

It may be August, but we’re already planning ahead for SXSW EDU in March 2020. AI + HI (Human Intelligence) = Educational Equity. To achieve educational equity by addressing learner variability, we need to blend AI (artificial intelligence) with HI (human intelligence) through data.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But how did ancient humans experience and describe these feelings? By analyzing one million words of Akkadian cuneiform, researchers unearthed fascinating connections between emotional states and specific body parts, offering fresh insights into human emotional experience through time.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This suggests that children may have recognized and elaborated upon the figurative potential of their own creations, blending play and representation in a uniquely human way. Journal : Evolutionary Human Sciences , 2020. Book Chapter : Art and Human Development , 2013. Journal : World Archaeology , 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

A report from the Georgia Department of Labor predicts that the need for teachers will rise in the state by 2020, along with other positions such as accountants, software developers and registered nurses. The post DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory” appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 24, 2024

A key aspect of human evolutionary success is our ability to build on past knowledge. Unlike other species, humans don't have to learn how to do things from scratch. The question then arises: when did humans develop this ability? Accumulating Culture Human technology is a testament to cumulative culture. million to 1.8

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Beginning in October 2020, it texted them twice a week, week after week, as they started their applications, then considered financial aid packages, decided where to enroll, made plans over the summer for getting to campus and settled into their routines as freshmen. But some of Oli’s human correspondents had more to say.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

At Brewbaker, which in 2020 served more than 700 students in pre-K through second grade, nearly 20 percent of her students are English learners and 71 percent are economically disadvantaged. For students who speak English as a first language, the program led to as much growth as working with a human tutor.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amidst the chaos of 2020 we lost a true leader in education in late August just as schools were trying to reopen. We medicated our domestic animals and produced lower cost, but lower quality, meats that have been shown to have adverse health effects on the humans that consume them. With pesticides and herbicides we poisoned our waters.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

In April 2020, her company, AllHere, launched several new features to battle problems exacerbated by Covid-19, including an Artificial Intelligence-powered two-way text messaging system, Chatbot, for kids who weren’t showing up to class regularly. AllHere isn’t the only AI-powered technology startup that expanded last year.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The researchers looked at dozens of skills people use in their jobs, such as writing and reasoning, and then analyzed the potential for new AI tools to either supplant or support humans in those tasks. In 2018 or so Elon Musk said there would be fleets of driverless Teslas everywhere by 2020. I’ve never seen a driverless Tesla.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

That’s typically when the human mind takes over. Constraints … it’s when humans then start to solve,” Smith said. In August 2020, Smith gave a presentation on contingency planning during a panel on centering equity in school reopening plans hosted by the group. That’s how it’s worked in Rowan-Salisbury.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It seems that our recent (timid) interest in cultivating multiliteracies in anthropological work follows directly from his early 20 th -century view that human communication involves not only linguistic or verbal exchanges, but also non-verbal cues and gestures, such as tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language. Josephson, J.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Text messages to students at more than 700 high schools across 15 states also failed to improve the number of students who applied or enrolled in college, according to a 2020 study. That often requires lots of human interaction and supportive relationships — things that don’t scale easily.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, teens were spending an average of seven hours a day on their phones, as the journalist Paul Greenberg points out in his 2020 book, “ Goodbye Phone, Hello World.” This 2020 review of the research confirms that. Some racked up considerably more hours.

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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). Bierema, L.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2020

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library was one of the book giveaway programs that obtained “impressive” results for early childhood literacy in a May 2020 analysis by international researchers. published in the journal Review of Educational Research in May 2020. Eliminating human intermediaries also keeps costs low.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Many of the programs affected are in the humanities and languages, making those disciplines less available to rural students than they are to urban and suburban ones. In all, more than 25 programs have now been eliminated there, many of them in the humanities. But students and faculty say it was still important to offer them.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Those little things added up, making the writing seem like it didn’t come from a human. But Alex’s story shows that a little human input can correct such issues, which raises the question many professors are wondering: Can plagiarism-detection tools catch these AI creations? It just lacks that human touch. What’s causing that?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the summer of 2020 after schools had been shuttered for about three months, another nonprofit maker of math software for elementary schools called Zearn was thinking about a way to keep kids on grade level. Thousands of classrooms elected to try the just-in-time review approach in the fall of 2020. Alves puts 21 papers in 7 piles.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Researchers from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence at Kiel University have introduced a groundbreaking way 1 to apply modern philosophical concepts, like the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), to ancient societies, offering fresh perspectives on how and why these communities thrived. Crellin, R. Change and archaeology. 1 Arponen, V.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. to transition away from human slavery as its dependent workforce for crop production and infrastructure development. According to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Census data shows that rates of home-schooling doubled between the start of the pandemic in March 2020 and the fall of that year. Before 2020, Helene Gaddie had never really considered homeschooling. The Gaddies. It just made me think my children had another option to learn at home without that hostile environment.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2020

Earlier in May 2020 former Gov. Robert Slavin of Johns Hopkins University wrote a May 14, 2020 blog pos t calling for a “Marshall Plan for education, to recruit, train, and deploy thousands of tutors in schools across America.” Related: Cheaper human tutors can be highly effective, studies show. Tennessee is taking the lead.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And, in separate studies, Canadian researchers report increased risk of developmental delays among 1-year-olds born between April and November 2020 and a link between higher levels of distress experienced by pregnant women during the pandemic and changes in their babies’ brains. The studies are also awaiting peer review.).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

But Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that adolescence is actually a second opportunity to invest in children because of the enormous brain development during this period. “It’s 27, 2020 seminar on adolescent learning and well-being in Berkeley, California. .”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Back in the spring of 2020, before my tween daughters became obsessed with Minecraft YouTube, I thought I had pandemic parenting figured out. This refers to the private Minecraft server that Dream launched in April 2020 so he and a few gamer friends could explore a new update to the game. We made family dinners. Credit: @SuertoSean.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The value of the human potential unlocked by early education and social and emotional interventions is more difficult to assess: it is arguably limitless. What the pandemic has shown us is that we also need a new modern redesign in education, one that refocuses on the essence of our social brains and our resilience: human connections.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As a techie at heart, I envisioned a digital utopia where post-pandemic schools would become fully digitized with students and teachers always remote and online while still preserving the magic of human interaction. Ironically, though, it was the lack of human interaction that became the central issue.

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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 Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

Source: “Effectiveness of Crowd-Sourcing On-Demand Assistance from Teachers in Online Learning Platforms,” August 2020 Learning at Scale. Only a human tutor, sitting next to a student during homework time, would be able to figure out the proper hint that an individual student needs in a particular moment.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Moreover, this finding contributes to a broader narrative that places Neanderthals as active participants in the cultural evolution of early humans. Their ability to develop and share complex technologies like tar-making illustrates their pivotal role in shaping the trajectory of human development. A., & Langejans, G. Leierer, L.,

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To understand how technology can change the way students learn and work together, you only have to go back to March 2020. Coincidentally, the “edtech” industry experienced an unprecedented renaissance in 2020 that was only outpaced by an even bigger boom in 2021. Technology is never going to be the magic solution to our problems.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2020

Quarterback Drew Brees, of the New Orleans Saints, walks off the field at halftime during the NFL Pro Bowl football game in January, 2020. Demonstrators protest Thursday, June 4, 2020 near the White House in Washington over the death of George Floyed, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis. All the time.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: The results were “sobering,” according to a March 2020 report, “ Learning by Scientific Design; Early insights from a network informing teacher preparation.” Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points. Early Childhood.

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2021

In fall 2020, MindCatcher launched Collective Support , an affinity-based leadership and wellness cohort. We also knew from a recent organizational analysis that one of MindCatcher’s strengths is the ability to support educators to address challenges.

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