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Children as Artists: A New Perspective on Upper Paleolithic Cave Art

Anthropology.net

By integrating insights from developmental psychology, researchers have identified playful and imaginative marks made by young artists, fundamentally rethinking prehistoric creativity. The article is titled, “Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic.

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The buzz around teaching facts to boost reading is bigger than the evidence for it

The Hechinger Report

Hirsch, a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that democracy benefits when the citizenry shares a body of knowledge and history, which he calls cultural literacy. A 2023 study of the Core Knowledge curriculum, which was not peer reviewed, received a lot of buzz.

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Hundreds of STEM Grants Have Been Terminated. K-12 Math Educators Will Lose Out

ED Surge

In 2023, the American Psychological Association reported that math anxiety is prevalent and can last well into adulthood. Researchers acknowledge that aversion to math is so strong in our culture that at a certain point, being bad at math became a shared cultural identity.

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What We’re Reading: 4 Resources for Improving School Culture

Edthena

Improving school culture is high on many school leaders’ lists of building priorities. But cultivating a strong school culture doesn’t happen without intentional thought and planning. Why is this key to improving school culture ? Check out the highlights of what we’ve been reading below, as well as links to the full resources.

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Top 10 EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2023

ED Surge

Perhaps it’s no surprise that EdSurge’s most popular podcast episode of 2023 focused on ChatGPT. A Yale University psychology professor has gathered highlights of what research says about the most common human thinking errors into a popular class at the university that she recently turned into a book.

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The New Neuroscience of Learning: How Brain Research Validates Montessori Methods

Maitri Learning

. #2: Learning is Embedded in Culture and Relationships Our brains physically change in response to our social and cultural context. Research shows that simply living in different cultures creates measurable differences in brain activity and structure. Our classrooms and families are also forms of culture. Gotlieb, R.

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Persistent problems: A powerful paradigm for professional development

A Psychology Teacher Writes

The challenge, then, for PD is to use these levers to secure engagement (note: this is not about some rather sinister form of psychological manipulation to ‘trick’ people into engaging or getting buy-in; it’s about finding ways to explicitly show that people’s perceived individual needs are actually in alignment with whole-school goals).