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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

After Jessica Ellison invited me to participate in a conversation about how academic historians might be of use to K-12 teachers, I did a little research: I asked teachers at our state social studies council what they most needed for their work. The answers were clear: time and confidence, they said.

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TEACHER VOICE: Instead of assuming kids won’t read novels anymore, build a curriculum that showcases books’ worth

The Hechinger Report

By now, you may have seen the recent spate of articles bemoaning the plight of the novel, that outdated 18th-century technology that adults have long forsaken and that some schools are beginning to shrug off. If we want students to invest in the great, global conversation of the humanities, its going to take a bit of salespersonship.

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How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa

Sapiens

They wrote about Abena—and Akaina, a young girl in Eastern Africa living 3,000 years from today—to help teach K12 students about possibilities for a sustainable future. As Logan wrote in a 2016 American Anthropologist article , “chronic food insecurity is a condition that was made rather than a condition that has always been.”

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Students analyze rap lyrics with code in digital humanities class

The Hechinger Report

Nilsson is an English teacher by training, but he has embraced the “digital humanities,” teaching students how to code to answer questions about books, speeches, news coverage, rap lyrics and more. Twenty-three states have created K-12 computer science standards. Subscribe today! Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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How Teachers Are Pondering the Ethics of AI

ED Surge

The study , “How Teachers Navigate the Ethical Landscape of AI in Their Classrooms,” interviewed 248 K-12 teachers. Artificial Tools, Human Judgments When EdSurge first spoke to Kohn, the lab coordinator, he was using ChatGPT as a teacher’s assistant in biology courses. The main findings?

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How to Drive Student Success With Creative Generative AI Tools in the Classroom: Part 1

ED Surge

This article is the first of a two-part series covering key principles to consider when integrating a generative AI creativity tool into your academic setting. Imagine if every student learned how to apply creative thinking to every subject throughout their educational experience, from K-12 through college.

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OPINION: I’m one of the professors spending thousands of dollars to teach from home

The Hechinger Report

Now, based on the latest science and human behavior, I predict that on-campus classes will not be safe until late 2022. Squinting at my 16” laptop screen 12 hours every day while communicating with students and grading their papers was growing painful, so I bought a 34” curved ultra-wide external monitor ($570).

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