Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

These artifacts were found alongside skeletons, jewelry, pottery, and other items in a well-preserved tomb from the Early Bronze Age. The use of perforations suggests they may have been tied to other objects, highlighting an innovative approach to recording information in this early urban society.

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TeachThought

JULY 12, 2024

How To Connect Schools And Communities Using Social Media Although itself just a program that translates html code to visual information, the modern web browser has become a vessel that everything else attaches itself to. Parents have always been ‘informed’—but of what? None of this is new, really. Worried about privacy?

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Allowing students choice over which tools they will use to create artifacts of their learning that demonstrate conceptual mastery builds a greater appreciation for learning while simultaneously preparing them for the real world. This could include collaborating with others using social media, networking, or reviewing.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Found in tombs scattered across the region, these delicately carved, hand-sized artifacts bear geometric designs whose purpose has sparked debate for centuries. Deciphering the Plaques: A History of Theories Since the 1800s, scholars have speculated about the meaning of these artifacts, numbering around 1,626 recovered to date.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 27, 2016

Even countries which have invested heavily in information and communication technologies (ICT) for education have seen no noticeable improvement in their performances in PISA results for reading, mathematics, or science." Artifacts : Examples of digital lessons, projects, assessments (formative, summative, rubrics, etc.)

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 25, 2021

Packed with ready-to-use ideas and embedded resources, including the latest digital tools, templates, and artifacts from real classrooms, readers will learn…. Contact them HERE for more information. It is up to educators to find the right blend of these strategies to empower learners. To see all of the endorsement quotes, click HERE.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2017

We then leverage evidence-based rubrics to observe leadership and instructional practices while collecting artifacts to provide evidence of effective digital learning and innovative professional practice. During this reflective process, it is expected that school leadership teams collect and document aligned evidence for each item.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Image credit: [link] The number one responsibility and challenge for digital leaders is to create a relevant, meaningful, and authentic learning culture that allows students to create learning artifacts to demonstrate conceptual mastery. A common misconception is that you have to be "tech savvy" in order to be a digital leader.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Neanderthal burials included items such as wild goat horns, red deer jaws, tortoiseshells, and stone artifacts, while early H. “If you look at sites with overlapping timeframes, the artifacts alone would not indicate whether they were Neanderthal or H. “The data are not sufficient to demonstrate that flow of information.”

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

Rubrics are then leveraged to observe leadership and instructional practices while collecting artifacts to provide evidence of efficacy-based innovative practices. This information will then be reviewed at the initial meeting for reflection and goal-setting to grow and improve. The IPA doesn’t just look at innovation.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 24, 2014

This all changed dramatically when students were afforded a hands-on, authentic learning experience in the Makerspace that allowed them to create artifacts of learning to demonstrate conceptual mastery. It serves as a rejuvenation center for inspiring of love for both formal and informal learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 9, 2017

Getting into classrooms both formally and informally can provide a much-needed critical lens to support professional practice while also building powerful relationships in the process. Owning what you see doesn’t just have to come from being physically present to make observations.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Regardless of your role, commit to watching the practice of others to inform your own or to provide feedback later. Create mechanisms for educators to share work through artifacts and portfolios. In the end, though, some people won’t respond to non-evaluative measures. Consistency is key. Get in classrooms more. Make it a priority.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 7, 2019

We can look to the past in order to inform current practice. If efficacy is the goal, embracing a scholarly mindset to inform and influence our work, not drive it, is critical. A combination of data and artifacts will tell you and anyone else whether or not goals were met.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 10, 2016

that information can be accessed, adapted, archived, and shared by anyone who has access to their accounts. As they published their own work in the form of learning artifacts, they begin to create a positive digital footprint that they could be proud of. comments, pictures, videos, etc.),

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 17, 2012

I was accompanied by NMHS Adobe guru Walt Pevny, who consistently integrates technology in his classroom to allow students to create artifacts to demonstrate learning. On Thursday May 17, 2012, I was fortunate to attend the Adobe Digital Publishing Summit in New York City.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 21, 2014

Adding more depth to the PGP process and portfolio has been the digital badge platform created by media specialist Laura Fleming to acknowledge the informal learning of our teachers. The end result has been a proliferation of innovative practices as teachers have been empowered to take ownership of their learning through autonomy.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. Digital artifacts follow the same patterns. When NASAs early satellite data became inaccessible due to obsolete formats , it was not just information that was lost, but a record of human exploration.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Experiments that send parents useful information by text have been found to increase student attendance and reduce course failures dramatically. Parents get so little information and so little of what they get is useful,” Rogers said. Parents get so little information and so little of what they get is useful.”.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

We can indeed cover more ground when we present information in a traditional lecture format, but that doesn’t mean students understand the information. Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggens point out in Understanding by Design that understanding is not simply acquiring information or facts. They can find a podcast (e.g.,

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Most playlists culminate in a performance task or artifact intended to demonstrate students’ ability to transfer or apply what they learned working through the playlist. Let’s start with a quick review of the playlist, or individual rotation, model for those who have not heard of it.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

For centuries, the study of prehistoric life has relied on the fragile remnants of bones and artifacts. Moreover, while mitochondrial DNA provides valuable lineage information, nuclear DNA—offering deeper genetic insights—remains much harder to recover. Unraveling Time with Sedimentary DNA No Bones? No Problem.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2021

I agree that repeating the same information the same way for all students, whether in a whole group or a small group dynamic, is not a great use of our time. Creativity Allow students to use digital tools to create artifacts of their learning (e.g., It helped me learn three important lessons that still inform my work in this space.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 4, 2025

See below for full program information and application instructions. Currently numbering over 83,000 volumes and 500 linear feet of personal papers and institutional archives, it comprises a large circulating book collection, journal holdings, electronic resources, non-print media, rare books, archival materials, art, and artifacts.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

To counter this, teachers emphasize the inverted pyramid style, which prioritizes placing the most crucial information at the beginning of the article, or even in the headline. Introducing these artifacts often prompts students to share their own, creating a powerful, emotional experience.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When we build student agency into a task or an assessment, students may produce various artifacts to demonstrate their learning. How can we design meaningful choices that allow students to select a pathway that moves them toward the desired outcome? They may express and communicate what they know or can do in different ways.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 2, 2019

This will make it easier for students to add to and retrieve information from their digital notebooks. Create artifacts of their learning that can be shared easily with parents. Have fun with the background colors to visually cue students that they are entering a new section of the digital notebook. Add additional slides.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

When information about the disturbing nature of the unmarked common grave hit the international press in 2014, a scandal was born. This exclusion was suspected of signaling an inappropriate delimitation of which family members counted, a failure to fully invest in identifying the children by using the latest technologies, or both.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 12, 2019

If they can define why they are doing a task, they can also make informed decisions about what they want to produce to show they have learned. At the end of a project, some students have built physical models others have designed multimedia presentations and others have created digital artifacts.

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2020

Because students are no longer bringing physical artifacts home to show their parents, and school work now tends to live online, schools need to incorporate new ways to loop families in to student learning. These apps help families share artifacts (videos, photos, audio, etc.), Parent-teacher communication has also been interrupted.

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Living Geography

MARCH 16, 2025

From maps, artworks, to artifacts, including a globe from the Great Exhibition of 1851, this tour offers a unique opportunity to engage with our Collections in a meaningful and thought-provoking way.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 7, 2019

The Tech Team ministry provides ample opportunities for learners to develop skills across the four broad categories of digital literacy as defined by Dudeney, Hockly and Pegrum (2013): language; information; connections; and re-design. Information Literacies. A Closer Look at Four Categories of Digital Literacy for Adult Learners.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Tips for Helping Students Understand Informational Text March 7, 2023 • Debbie Bagley There is a lot of information written about how to help students navigate informational text, but the most important takeaway for me is to make sure we focus on best practices that support our learners.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

In a new paper published in Advances in Archaeological Practice 1 , Ward and his colleagues are calling for museums to take a more ethical, culturally informed approach to caring for the bones of animals, particularly those tied to Indigenous traditions. That disregard has persisted in many collections today. Arterberry, J., Aguilar, J.,

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

The first and second blogs in this series focused on providing meaningful choices when students are acquiring information and making meaning. Application activities also enhance retention and mastery of information, making it more likely that students will retain and effectively use what they have learned in the future.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 16, 2024

Discovered in Poland, this artifact challenges our understanding of their cognitive abilities and symbolic culture. Symbolic Culture of Neanderthals The bear bone joins a growing collection of Neanderthal artifacts with parallel incisions, hinting at a shared symbolic culture. Different views of a roughly 4-inches-long (10.6

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Simulations can also present information in a new way that can be more exciting and engaging than traditional teaching methods. In this Roman Empire Archaeological Simulation, students take on the role of archaeologists to dig for artifacts at six different Roman sites.

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