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Both Humans and Technology Are Noisy: How Do We Move Forward?

Digital Promise

Over the years, I’ve been involved in developing research programs and projects in education technology, games, and virtual reality. As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. My desire to know exploded.

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

ED Surge

Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. history, European history, human geography, AP government. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching. For the most part it's been positive.

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What We Learned About Teaching and Creativity by Commissioning a New Podcast Theme Song

ED Surge

In searching for a theme song that fit, I spent hours clicking around on online music libraries including the Free Music Archive for songs with just the right mix of seriousness and playfulness to encapsulate our weekly interview show about the future of learning.

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As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

ED Surge

Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook. Published by Cambridge University Press, Public Humanities is pitched as a very large tent. Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities.