Anthropology.net

APRIL 23, 2025

But the new findings suggest that its human story stretches well into the early Holocene—with pottery, ostrich eggshell jewelry, and evidence of lakeshore settlement. During the post-Last Glacial Maximum warming, these lakes became magnets for human activity. Left Coast Press. Zhang, C., & Hung, H.-C. link] Kuzmin, Y.

Archaeology 73

Archaeology Artifacts Cultures Humanities 73

ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Perhaps it’s no surprise that EdSurge’s most popular podcast episode of 2023 focused on ChatGPT. In what has become an annual tradition, we’re sharing your favorite episodes of the year, as determined by the number of listens to the 44 fresh episodes we produced.

Civics 84

Civics Psychology Humanities Elementary School 84

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. My daughter and I both felt that the wisdom of the tradition should reach a wider audience, of children and adults alike. You are no monster.

Tradition 121

Tradition Cultures Humanities Research 121

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

All were Harvard students taking an introductory physics class in the fall of 2023, so the findings may not be widely applicable. Kestin doesn’t deliver traditional lectures. I don’t think that this is an argument for replacing any human interaction,” said Kestin. This allows for the human interaction to be much richer.”

Tutoring 136

Tutoring Humanities Tradition Critical Thinking 136

Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

Moving Beyond the "Brain in a Bucket" Theory For too long, traditional education has viewed learning as simply filling an empty vessel with knowledge, as if the brain operated in isolation from emotions and the body. This might come as a surprise, but humans actually have fewer genes than most plants, and about the same number as goldfish!

Research 52

Research Humanities Cultures Psychology 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In a survey, humanities, arts and social science professors say they really want their students to be able to analyze data, create charts and spreadsheets and reason mathematically – skills that high school math courses often skip or rush through. “We I felt that it really gave me breadth as a human being.”

High School 143

High School K-12 Social Science Humanities 143

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.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy 130

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

Some call it explicit or traditional instruction. 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.

Psychology 143

Psychology Education Policy Research Teaching 143

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

That has caused a lot of anxiety among traditional public school advocates, and a lot of anxiety with progressives and Democrats who just really oppose this. In 2023, 3,200 parents were employed in early care and education, and 5,600 children had benefited from the program, Day said. The amount depends on the programs quality rating.

K-12 60

K-12 Private School Government Advocacy 60

Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Morais, Columbia Business School In the fall of 2023, I integrated generative artificial intelligence (AI) into my Columbia Business School course, Market Intelligence: The Art and the Science. Cultural Baking Kits: Develop themed baking kits that introduce children to various cultural traditions through baking. Human Organization.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Teaching Pedagogy Cultures 130

ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

But not everyone thinks this is a good idea, since the tech is prone to “hallucinations,” where chatbots make up facts, and there’s the bigger issue of whether any machine can fill in for a human in something as deeply personal as one-on-one tutoring. But I've also been fascinated by the potential of human intelligence.

Tutoring 128

Tutoring Humanities K-12 EdTech 128

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

President Jokowi Widodo, more commonly known as ”Jokowi,” and Vice President Jusuf Kalla surprised the public when attending Indonesia’s 2017 State of the Union Address (SOTU) by wearing traditional attire. Consequently, any traditional ethnic attire he wears inherently signifies Indonesian identity.

Cultures 98

Cultures Heritage Tradition Government 98

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Proponents say the sanctuary would also benefit Native and non-Native human residents by providing areas for recreation, defending against offshore oil drilling and mining , and likely generating hundreds of jobs in tourism and related industries.

Heritage 132

Heritage Government Cultures Humanities 132

ED Surge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I mean, it's filtered by algorithms and so forth, but compared to something like a traditional paper or a book or something, [it] is relatively unfiltered, and you're making the decision about what to read and not, you're constantly leafing through these sorts of things, and only a small fraction of things online are probably worth your attention.

Critical Thinking 142

Critical Thinking Tradition Teaching Humanities 142

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I study human skeletal remains of the past, how burial contexts were constructed, and what they revealed about communities. My work sits at the nexus of human biology and archaeology, two disciplines known for being deeply positivist and scientific, valuing numbers, models, and testable hypotheses as a gold standard.

Anthropology 98

Anthropology Pedagogy Archaeology Social Justice 98

Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

Although publicly available chatbots had only been in the mainstream for one semester when we surveyed (fall 2023), 71% of students indicated they thought that GenAI would become an essential part of most professions. As one student said, “I am mostly concerned about AI replacing human interactions in the classroom.” For example, H.R.

Anthropology 98

Anthropology Humanities Teaching Professional Development 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

The third and final chapter of this long-term study was published in the January/February 2023 issue of the journal Educational Researcher , and as I pored over this body of research, I became confused about what it proved. It’s across the country, using this really great evidence to help make things better.”

Tutoring 128

Tutoring Tradition Research Social Science 128

Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

to imagine and develop the research design for the archaeological investigation of UCI’s campus at some time in the future (perhaps an excavation to be conducted by non-human intelligence). College writing in 2023 means reckoning with students’ use of ChatGPT. To that end, the class activity had three main components.

Anthropology 105

Anthropology Archaeology Pedagogy Archiving 105

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

And candidates with non-traditional teaching backgrounds are considered. The district’s human resources department plans to hire a staff member specifically to build this diverse pipeline of educators in the district. In Phoenix Union, hiring teachers without a traditional education degree isn’t brand new. These are educators.

High School 145

High School Cultures Leadership Public School 145

ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

The challenge with screening for dyslexia is that if you’re only dependent on a human, you’re limited in terms of the resource,” says Martyn Farrows, CEO of SoapBox Labs, a voice tech company. Kindergarten teachers at Sto-Rox transitioned from traditional assessments like DIBELS to EarlyBird at the start of the 2022-2023 school year.

Teaching 122

Teaching EdTech Professional Development Tutoring 122

Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

These traditional vocabularies continue to obscure the people, places, and acts of creativity on the peripheries of mainstream narratives. decline in ad spending in 2023, according to WARC, with a modest recovery expected in 2024, primarily driven by 6.1% Again, is anything ever really new? Third point. increase in South Africa.

Cultures 98

Cultures History Tradition Anthropology 98

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Credit: Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology (2023). Contrary to traditional beliefs, the team's findings showcased diversified livestock practices beyond transhumance. (B) Plan view of Coro Trasito cave, showing the location of the 2011 and 2013 test-pit and the area of the extended excavation. The isocotes indicate every 20 cm.

Archaeology 52

Archaeology Economics Humanities Government 52

Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 7, 2025

women, enslaved humans, people of color) in order to be more inclusive of the changing demographics in American society explore how the incorporation of noncanonical authors or writings (e.g., CAAS Presentation Awards: In 2023, at the initiative of Program Coordinator Konstantinos P. Such sessions are ideal for pedagogy-related topics.

Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy K-12 Archaeology Teaching 52

Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Please fill out the application form by 5pm EST on December 15th for consideration: Apply for Childcare / Dependent Care Subsidies Update 11/1/2023: SCS is looking for volunteers to assist onsite in Chicago at the 2024 Annual Meeting. Update 9/13/2023: Registration for the 2024 AIA/SCS Joint Annual Meeting is now open!

K-12 52

K-12 Archiving Social Justice Library 52

Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services defines affordable child care as no more than 10% of a family’s income; however, the Care Index reports that childcare costs account for as high as 19% of a family’s income in some states. 2023, May 23). 2023, February 3). 2023, January 25). Gardiner, B. Guevara, H.

K-12 52

K-12 Professional Development Economics Tradition 52

Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Tzu Chi also extends sentience to Mother Earth, whom Master Cheng Yen frequently invokes as a suffering entity due to human destructiveness. Despite minimizing traditional Buddhist scripture-chanting and rituals, I found Tzu Chi members were deeply religious, and their daily activities were highly ritualized.

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Cultures Tradition Government 52

Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Together with Guldin and philosophers such as Michel Serres and Arden Reed, I also aim to bring the wider sense of the term meteor—as various atmospheric forces and events—back into the discourse of philosophy, humanities, and beyond. The idea of allying with nature in a “more-than-human” collaboration isn’t always pure.

Sociology 64

Sociology Archaeology Humanities Anthropology 64

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools.

Library 255

Library Social Justice Pedagogy Humanities 255

TeachThought

APRIL 28, 2024

Understanding the shared nature of the human experience drives home the meaning of the Golden Rule — children grasp why they should treat others as they want to be treated. They must convey several things: Emotions are a natural part of being human, and simply having them isn’t wrong or bad. However, meditation can be entirely secular.

Elementary School 332

Elementary School Teaching Humanities Tradition 332

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

A recent study published in Evolution and Human Behaviour 1 challenges conventional narratives about gender roles, revealing a surprising level of equality in how work and leisure are shared in hunter-gatherer societies. Credit: Evolution and Human Behavior (2024). Nature Human Behaviour, 5(9), 1195–1205. Pontzer, H.,

Anthropology 98

Anthropology Humanities History Tradition 98

Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

These screenshots were taken in 2023. There was a trend in news coverage of this project which minimized our disciplinary expertise (human biologists and anthropologists who study menstruation), while elevating the dismissive commentary of many MDs who were not specialists in menstruation.

Anthropology 98

Anthropology Social Justice Humanities Research 98

Sapiens

APRIL 23, 2025

Today only a single catalog card from the pre-war period remains at the NMOL, according to museum director Albert Markeh, who shared this information with the BAHA team during a 2023 meeting in Monrovia. “And when the war ended, there was no effort on the part of the government to encourage people to return to their traditional homes.

Cultures 64

Cultures Museum Heritage Archaeology 64

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.

Humanities 141

Humanities Cultures Government Tradition 141

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.

Archaeology 52

Archaeology Humanities Tradition Research 52

Steven V. Miller

APRIL 17, 2025

How do we explain this disappointing season after a 2023 season in which Dallas finished 12-5 and won the division? QB pressures, as a count, increased almost 33% from 2023. The Cowboys switched defensive coordinators from 2023. The 2024 Dallas Cowboys finished 7-10, 3rd in the division, and did not make the playoffs.

Political Science 96

Political Science Social Science Tradition Library 96

Anthropology.net

AUGUST 8, 2024

This diminutive species, with a brain about one-third the size of modern humans, was unlike any other hominin previously discovered. Instead of publishing their results in a traditional peer-reviewed journal, Berger and his team opted to release their findings through a series of unreviewed preprints on bioRxiv. 1 Berger, L.

Archaeology 116

Archaeology Humanities Research Tradition 116

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In the spring of 2022, after enduring a string of 10-day quarantines, James, a human resources director, and her husband, an employment attorney, decided to pull their son out of child care to try to keep the family healthy before the birth of their second child. Credit: Image provided by Mitch Meyer.

K-12 137

K-12 Advocacy Government Elementary School 137