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AAA Virtual High School Internship Projects

Anthropology News

This summer, tthe AAA hosted three interns through the Virtual High School Internship , and throughout the summer, the interns engaged in a variety of enriching activities: Research Projects: They read scholarly research articles, took them apart to see how they were constructed, and communicated their methods and findings to diverse audiences.

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Bertrand Russell’s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking

TeachThought

Most formal academic ‘platforms’ like public schools and universities tend to parse knowledge into content areas–what is being learned–rather than how and why it is being learned. This, to a degree, reduces the function of pure philosophy. There are exceptions, of course.

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These teens can do incredible math in their heads but fail in a classroom

The Hechinger Report

Most were attending school part time, or had previously been in school for years. That would take a longer anthropological study to observe them over time. Duflo doesnt know how the young street sellers learned to calculate so quickly in their heads. But Duflo was able to glean some of their strategies, such as rounding.

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What Does Blended Learning Look Like in an AP Class?

Catlin Tucker

I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Initially, some people at my school expressed concern about whether an AP- level course was the most appropriate choice for a blended learning pilot because of the sheer amount of content to be covered in a year.

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Next Steps: My Career Moving Forward

Anthropology 365

After graduating high school, I began university in 2003, majoring in biology and psychology. I promised her that I would go back to school and complete my bachelor’s degree. I was accepted into several master’s programs in various fields: anthropology, sexuality studies, anthrozoology, and visual anthropology.

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From Darkness to Infinite

Anthropology News

This piece was selected as a runner-up of the AAA’s AnthroDay Student Unessay Competition in the high school division. The post From Darkness to Infinite appeared first on Anthropology News. This year’s unessay competition focused on the topic of Technology and how it has impacted human life or society.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. On January 15, two days before the start of the 2024 school year, I joined 50 grade eight students and their guardians for an orientation at Launch, a high school in one of Cape Town’s oldest townships.

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