A Principal's Reflections

MAY 13, 2018

Of course, you have, as this is just a part of human nature. Image credit In a recent article Joani Junkala shares some great thoughts on the importance of stepping outside our comfort zones. In our personal lives, complacency can result if we are happy or content with where we are. Take test scores for example.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

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. For every overlap, teachers have a concrete opportunity to introduce computer science in more traditional subjects. Subscribe today!

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Geography Education

MAY 1, 2024

’ This article highlights great, everyday examples that shows how cultural patterns and processes change and why they matter. In an analogous example to those given in the article, Mexicans are very proud of their cuisine, but must remember that nothing is created in cultural or geographic isolation.

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Edthena

MARCH 6, 2025

Thats the question explored in the recent Education Week article, “Can AI Effectively Coach Teachers?” “The AI experience is just one tool in coaches arsenalsits meant to reinforce reflection and goal-setting done with human coaches,” she said. In the news Can artificial intelligence effectively coach teachers?

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Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

Issued: July 15, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until November 1, 2024 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the forms of care that permeate human and nonhuman worlds. How do we care for objects, archives, words, history, traditions, animals, plants, ideas, and obligations?

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. to transition away from human slavery as its dependent workforce for crop production and infrastructure development. Herein lies the dilemma.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Knowledge sometimes can cause these internal conflicts, and even stress, where weoftenhave to decide between making a choice that we feel is ethical and correct or making a choice that fits our personal food preferences, traditions, lifestyle, bank accounts, and access. And again, I never tell people what to do.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix. Human Organization. 69 (3): 252-262. Morais, Robert J.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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. He cautioned that he couldn’t fully replace his human teaching assistants with a chatbot. Sometimes, he said, the chatbot was just off the mark.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Alyssa Battistoni, “Ideology at Work? In a recent APSR article, political theorist Alyssa Battistoni asks: why is care work so widely underpaid, or unpaid altogether? Rethinking Reproduction.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

Some call it explicit or traditional instruction. But the authors of the 2021 article said the council’s references for this policy change were “theoretical ideas packaged in conceptual articles rather than empirical evidence.” Educators have long debated the best way to teach, especially the subjects of science and math.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. We need human connection to develop, and schools are integral to growing those abilities in every child.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2024

Grant Wiggins wrote an article for ASCD that identifies the qualities of high-quality feedback. Highlights of Our Conversation In our conversation, Avery highlights two things that AI can do very quickly that are beyond our capacity as humans. First, AI can think very quickly.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

In schools, creativity can be harder to imagine in core subject areas like math and easier to associate with humanities and arts. According to a Gallup article , schools that promote creativity see improved scores on standardized tests and results of deeper understanding. Creativity is about making a major impact on learning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Michael Trucano from the Brookings Institution commented that the divide we will see is where some kids get taught just by AI, and other kids get taught by AI plus a human, which is obviously way better. AI can’t replace teachers; it lacks the human connection. We have a responsibility to really explore that to its fullest potential.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Issued: January 29, 2024 Response deadline: February 23, 2024 Pitch responses: February 29, 2024 First drafts due: March 27, 2024 For our third issue of 2024, Anthropology News is delving into the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its intricate relationship with human reality. And is humanity shaping AI?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

These quests might be called “assignments” in a more traditional classroom. But Isaacs doesn’t run a traditional classroom — and not just because his students spend most of their time in a fantasy world. Leave this field empty if you're human: “There are tremendous opportunities,” Isaacs said. “It Sign up for our newsletter.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In October, Czarnecki’s article “Migrant Music” was published in The Chronicles of Oklahoma. Probing the Historical Portrait of Migrant Farmworkers Czarnecki’s article examines the popular portrait of midwestern farmworkers who migrated to California in the 1930s, a portrait drawn by historians, folklore collectors, and Steinbeck’s novel.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2016

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Read the original article. Modern human beings have a shorter attention span than goldfish : ours is, on average, below eight seconds while the little fish can focus for nine seconds. This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Read the original article.

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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). This particular tool allows users to upload their own documents—course readings, research articles, archives, etc.—so

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. In a recent article , we examined the implications of current scanning technology and sought to answer the question: Can people avoid repeating the mistakes of the past when digitizing cultural locations?

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In its final metamorphosis, influenced by the theories of orientalists, the concept of world view merged with the concept of “Great” and “Little” traditions, which contains a more balanced evolutionary view of the loss of purity. The first explicit elaboration of the concept occurred in Redfleld’s article “The Primitive World View” (1952).

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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.

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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.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2018

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Instead, the famous landmark was lit up purple in celebration of the movement known as neurodiversity , which approaches autism as a natural part of human genetic diversity. This article was originally published on The Conversation.

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Digital Promise

MAY 15, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Fryer’s study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research , describes a two-year, randomized field experiment in grades three, four, and five at 50 traditional public schools in Houston. Read the original version here.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Early research seemed promising. The Maine study was supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a unit of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. percent of the students at traditional discipline schools. Choose as many as you like.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

These traditional vocabularies continue to obscure the people, places, and acts of creativity on the peripheries of mainstream narratives. But first, the data thief gives a prompt on background generate a story on Africa’s AI narrative result: Semafor article titled AI Ads Are Sweeping Across Africa Prompt.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

A perennial question as technology improves is the extent to which it will change—or replace— the work traditionally done by humans. Related Articles Teaching Partner, Grading Assistant or Substitute Teacher?

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

These scholarly traditions produced a wealth of theory and data that has been discovered by contemporary anthropology, but they do not constitute the historical back ground of the anthropology of peasantry. The roots of the anthropological interest in peasants were elsewhere, in the comparative study of the human condition.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Empathy, the ability to understand others and feel compassion for them, is arguably the most defining human quality – setting us apart from smart machines and even other animals. Read the original article.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

This model, which I reported on in an article last year for The Hechinger Report and Scientific American, requires a significant “discrepancy” between a child’s IQ and achievement to establish a learning disability, making it hard for children with lower IQs to qualify. In the early 1970s, Lester, known in court documents as Larry P.,

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

The concept could eventually “be a more efficient way of distributing grants than a traditional foundation, government funding agency, or corporation structure,” Werbach told EdSurge, also noting, however, that there are “a variety of concerns and reasons for skepticism about DAOs.” DAOs have popped up with various goals and functions.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Students need to be able to express themselves; the freedom to do so is not only a question of their intellectual development but also one of human rights. Students need to be able to express themselves; the freedom to do so is not only a question of their intellectual development but also one of human rights.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Consequently, they are able to improve and feel good about their learning, which are key parts of curiosity and a growth mindset that are so valuable, yet often so difficult, to instill in struggling students. Jessica Berlinski , Juliette Berg and Maurice Elias contributed to this article.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 5, 2019

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. If we want schools to support human development and learning, Wilson says, we need to begin to question some of what we’ve inherited. Traditional classrooms often use a white board as the center of student attention.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2017

Institutions including Lebanon Valley College face demographic shifts, constrained family incomes, student preferences toward professionally oriented majors over some of the traditional liberal arts, and rapid technological change. In a recent Hechinger Report article titled “ Is the college degree outdated ?”

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