The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2024

The debate is about the best mix — what are AI’s most effective roles in helping students learn, and what aspects of teaching should remain indelibly human no matter how powerful AI becomes? But, there aren’t enough human tutors available nor enough money to pay for them, especially in the wake of pandemic-induced learning loss.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens are both humans, but they differ in many ways. This research challenges prevailing assumptions about speciation, offering a more nuanced framework for interpreting the evolutionary history of modern humans and their closest relatives. Journal : Quaternary Science Reviews , 2023. ” Dr. .

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Excavations at Bété I uncovered a striking connection between early humans and a wet tropical forest environment, dated to approximately 150,000 years ago using advanced dating techniques such as optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and electron spin resonance (ESR). Their conclusion?

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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. Fajardo, S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2024

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

As a paleontologist, I traveled in May 2023 to the Indonesian islands of the Riau Archipelago, just south of Singapore, as part of an ongoing quest for evidence of Homo erectus , one of our oldest ancestors who once lived in this region from about 1.9 Still, they couldn’t fully explain the entirely human-made landscape we came across.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2023

Tools like ChatGBT and Google Bard weren’t even a thing before 2023. Personalized feedback AI can generate human-like responses tailored to individuals' specific needs and preferences. With AI as a leadership tool, time will be freed up so you can be more human. With any innovation, there is both excitement and fear.

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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 : Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory , 2023. Journal : Evolutionary Human Sciences , 2020. DOI : 10.1017/ehs.2020.37 DOI : 10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01496.x

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TeachThought

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The massive T-Mobile data breach in 2023, which exposed 37 million customers’ data, was a stark reminder: cybersecurity isn’t just IT jargon—it’s a necessity in our digital world. Two-Factor Authentication : According to Microsoft’s 2023 Security Report, adding this extra step has prevented 99.9%

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

More than 46,000 years ago, deep within the caves of what is now northern Spain, a silent drama unfolded between humans and the great beasts of the Ice Age. More importantly, the study provided evidence that humans and large carnivores—like hyenas and leopards—coexisted in Iberia for much longer than previously thought.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Perhaps it’s no surprise that EdSurge’s most popular podcast episode of 2023 focused on ChatGPT. Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson in ‘Thinking 101’ Human brains are wired to think in ways that often lead to biased decisions or incorrect assumptions.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Mountainous regions have long attracted early human populations, but the reasons behind this preference are becoming clearer thanks to new research. The results suggest that these rugged environments were key to human evolution, shedding light on why early human species chose such challenging terrains.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

. “Understanding how these practices spread and their significance will help us uncover more about the relationship between early humans and their environment.” ” Related Research Morales, J., & Latini, R. Animal symbolism in Predynastic Egyptian burial practices." Antiquity , 97(392), 784-799. DOI:10.15184/aqy.2023.784

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 18, 2024

Archaeologists have long debated the exact paths taken by early modern humans on their journey to Australia. An exciting new discovery 1 from eastern Indonesia, a tiny piece of plant resin, has pushed the timeline back and revealed critical insights into the route early humans might have taken. centimeters across.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2025

The algorithm detects potential indicators of problems like bullying, self-harm, suicide or school violence and then sends a screenshot to human reviewers. After hearing about these experiences, the Durham Board of Education voted to stop using Gaggle in 2023. In cases of imminent danger, Gaggle calls school officials directly.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

After his release from a New York prison in 2023, he moved to Rochester, New York, and is hoping to take the actuarial exam, which requires a lot of math. Since 2022 , shes been pursuing an associates degree in human services from prison through a remote program with Washington County Community College.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

Inclusion in the general education classroom is a human right Abby Taylor recently earned her doctorate in special education at Vanderbilt University, where Douglas Fuchs, the author of the controversial paper, is a professor. His six-year term at the Department of Education began in 2023. Comments were lightly edited for clarity.)

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Yet some of those providers haven’t updated their openings since June 2023, or even August 2022. That wasn’t the issue, says Ryan Page, director of child care for the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services. The infants who were enrolled, when that availability was posted, are not even infants anymore.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 14, 2025

The apprenticeship track in Massachusetts, which launched in early 2023 after leaders there were inspired by what Kentucky was creating, has a similar aim. The program averages about two years to complete, with 288 hours of required related technical instruction and 4,000 hours of on-the-job learning.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 18, 2024

Her area of expertise is human learning and memory, and applying the science of learning in educational contexts. Helping us do that is Megan Sumeracki, a professor of cognitive psychology at Rhode Island College.

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Teaching Anthropology

JUNE 12, 2023

London Anthropology day, 30 th June 2023, British Museum Are you fascinated by different cultures? Curious about human evolution? Take part in interactive workshops such as ‘Conspiracy Theories and Their Truths in Times of Confusion: Anthropological Perspectives’, ‘7 Million Years of Human Evolution in 45 Minutes!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Source: ACT Research Report 2023 : Sanchez speculates that test optional admissions have elevated the importance of high school grades. But college professors didn’t report a similar academic deterioration with their humanities students. The ACT analysis, published in August 2023 , covered almost 6.9 was the maximum grade.)

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Political Science Now

MARCH 7, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. in English Literature and Human Rights Studies from the University of Dayton. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented. Mary holds an M.A.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

HOUSTON — On a Saturday morning in August 2023, a crowd gathered outside the Houston Independent School District administration building with protest signs in hand. Demonstrators gather in August 2023 in protest of Houston ISD's plan to close libraries in schools. Photo by Nadia Tamez-Robledo for EdSurge. The problem?

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

When humans feel stressed or disconnected, our brains shift away from the higher-order thinking needed for learning and into survival mode (Arnsten, 2015). There is also more than just one path to mastery - different humans may take different valid routes to achieve the same learning goals (Fischer & Yan, 2002).

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Living Geography

JANUARY 22, 2025

World Weather Attribution & @ClimateCentral show these were intensified by human-induced climate change. of human-induced warming, and highlights the urgency of moving away from planet-heating fossil fuels as quickly as possible. 2024 was the year when the weather continued to break. and break records.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2024

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations or decisions influencing real or virtual environments. As recommended in the 2023 Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning report published by the U.S.

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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. Apostolidou, A.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Among the most perplexing of these practices is the display of severed human heads—gruesome relics once nailed to walls or placed near entrances. Science Takes a Bite Out of Ancient Iberian Mythology To uncover the origins of these skulls, researchers analyzed human remains from two major sites: Ullastret and Puig Castellar.

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2024

In a 2023 interview , professional basketball player Caitlin Clark shared about where her confidence stems from. In fact, I think it has enormous potential to augment our human creativity and to support effective teaching and learning. Can these tools make us more human, not less? And computer people, what shall we say of them?

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In this regard, we were both deeply struck by a story on November 9, 2023, of a team of researchers that had sighted Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains. Sighted shortly before October 2023, your timing could not be more important. You are no monster. You are a portent. One way explodes all around us.

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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 (Turkish for “cat”) also charts the ways humans care for felines, from making them snacks to bringing them to the vet. After a magnitude 7.7

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and Arizona State University found that human feedback was generally a bit better than AI feedback, but AI was surprisingly good. Humans had a particular advantage in advising students on something to work on that would be appropriate for where they are in their development as a writer.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

If AI-generated content can easily evade detection while human text is frequently misclassified, how effective are these detectors truly?” the Stanford scientists wrote in a July 2023 paper , published under the banner, “ opinion ,” in the peer-reviewed data science journal Patterns. No human writes that way,” the Quill site says.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

In March 2023, 13 scholars led by a Dutch researcher, Ton de Jong, took on the debate in the academic journal Educational Research Review. In December 2023, Sweller and the inquiry critics wrote a response to the rebuttal in the same Educational Research Review journal. But low-achieving students also need more of it.

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