Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Also, if you’re interested in how AI can be used effectively in education, check out an article I contributed to in EdWeek: Can AI Be Used Effectively in Class? They discovered how geography—land and sea routes—was integral to understanding exploration.

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Living Geography

JULY 19, 2024

I've decided to call these my Worldly Wednesdays.

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Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This analysis helped students build context and draw connections between geography and colonization strategies. By the end of class, they had a strong foundation to start digging deeper into the history of the English colonies. And that’s when I came across an article that completely changed my approach to Jamestown.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

It says that climate change and sustainability must become embedded across the curriculum for all children up to age 18, and not just be restricted to science and geography. The lead signatory is someone very well known to the geography community: Nicola Walshe. She said: History and English have a role, as do all other humanities.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

billion - more than any other music tour in history, and that's without all the associated money that is spent on accommodation, travel etc. The effect is already affecting Australia, as can be seen in this article here, which suggested a few other industries to benefit, including tattoo artists. She's also heading to Europe as well.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2019

But our research team, comprised of HMoob-American college students and education researchers, uses the spelling “HMoob” to challenge the colonial history of this ethnic group that originated in southern China. history of violent and destructive military interventions in Southeast Asia and its subsequent refugee outcomes.

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Geogramblings

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This article was co-authored with Catherine Walker and Nerida Jolley. You can read the introduction here, and then continue with the rest of the article, for free, via the University of Manchester’s website here. Similar policy and curricula updates have been seen around the world. Up until 2022, when version 9.0

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. My intent as an UGRR participant was to stretch my local history knowledge and to sharpen my historical-geographical thinking skills.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Their goal is to create a sentence that they may possibly find in the upcoming article. After the sentences are posted to the digital whiteboard, articles can be read in a whole group or independently. Once the selection has been read, students will identify sentences from the activity that accurately represent the article.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He did, and Livingston soon found herself sitting in an introductory college course in US history. The next semester, she took two more US history classes, then realized she’d found her major. When a position teaching geography to ninth graders at a private high school opened, she took it. The professor’s lecture fascinated her.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Nobody can own spectrum, but they can get a license to use specific frequencies, which the FCC grants by geography. Explaining why requires some history. The FCC did not return emails and phone calls requesting an interview for this article. That’s why, for example, 92.9 This is an equity issue. Photo: Andrew Franco.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. Peters agreed. Civic engagement involves more than just showing up to vote.

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Living Geography

AUGUST 26, 2024

This year's Paris Olympics saw an event which took place the furthest from the location of the games in Olympic history. As part of The Guardian's coverage of the games, they published a very useful article exploring some of the controversy around this event, and the potential impact on local people and the reef itself.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I mention this because I will be talking about geographies of activism and exclusion in a bit, and it is important to remember geographies help inform who we are and our responses and responsibilities to activism, scholarship, who we acknowledge in our citations, and the work that I do in accessibility awareness and inclusive practices.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

AUGUST 24, 2023

The test bank contains 100 questions—about 60 relating to civics and government, 30 covering US history, and ten touching on geography and cultural topics. So for the next activity, we read an article about brain-science-backed study habits, and they form their study plan.

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Strange Maps

JANUARY 31, 2024

Zooming out from individual casualties to the overall death toll, the dead of Everest start to form a morbid geography of sorts, which does more than simply horrify. Credit: pointofnoreturn.org) This first map shows the geography of the mountain, with a flag planted for each place where one or more climbers died.

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Strange Maps

MAY 28, 2024

But even without a government, a flag, and most other trappings of actual nationhood, Baltoscandia has a history, a raison d’être , and perhaps even a future. public domain) Baltoscandia was dreamed up back in 1928 by Sten de Geer, a Swedish geography professor. Call it the curse of history, but fears are easier realized than hopes.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. In a class with teachers , Delmont explained the relevance of learning this history. We’ll add more once teachers use the new paperback edition.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 24, 2023

Credit : Universal History Archive / Getty Images) And that’s not all that’s wrong with this map. When in doubt, send a scout Al-Idrisi also consulted older geographic compendia, notably Ptolemy’s Geography , as well as Islamic works. His other honorific, “father of geography,” is a shared prize at best. Got a strange map?

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Credit : Eric Lafforgue / Art in All of Us / Corbis, via Getty Images) And so, the phrase only added to the confusion about the complex geography of this part of the world. If there ever was the perfect cheat sheet for the geography of High Asia, this is it. Transport options are otherwise limited in the rugged, isolated Pamir.

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Living Geography

JULY 24, 2024

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History Blog which has over 300 posts on it already. With some additional content. A nicely illustrated story from The Guardian described a plan to green the rooves of Paris. During heatwaves this makes them vulnerable to high overnight temperatures which increases the health risk.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

14 not only boosted her immunity for the virus, it lifted our collective hopes that this tragic period in world history would soon pass. State educational systems are highly organized around to geography and socioeconomic status. To date, the coronavirus has killed approximately 1.7

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

She has also published over thirty articles in peer-reviewed journals, including an APSA award-winning article in the APSR. Boix has also been the two-time recipient of the Heinz Eulau award for best article published in the APSR. Pablo Beramendi is Professor of Political Science at Duke University.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Kids are often satisfied with fairly simple answers to their questions, Roffman said, and parents shouldn’t feel the need to dive into the history of sexism when answering questions about boys and girls, or the issue of infertility when answering questions about reproduction.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

This article was originally published by The Markup , a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. We’re setting up a system in which students, by the accident of geography, are getting very different kinds of education,” Ross said. “Do schools censor the internet. Is that fair?”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities. and elsewhere.

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