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5 Clear Ways Digital Benefits Learners

A Principal's Reflections

Collaborative exchanges among peers, teachers, authors, and mentors can turn a simple student writing product into a multifaceted and informative artifact. By selecting appropriate tools, students can create artifacts that demonstrate their conceptual mastery while acquiring and applying essential skill sets.

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When Did Humans Start Talking? Genomic Evidence Pushes Language Back to 135,000 Years Ago

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Traditionally, scholars have debated linguistic origins based on indirect clues—symbolic artifacts, brain size, or the complexity of tool-making. Yet, despite its central role in human evolution, determining when and how language first emerged remains a challenge.

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Ancient Meteors and Early Iron: How Space Rocks Became Everyday Tools in Iron Age Poland

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Recent analysis of artifacts from two Lusatian Culture cemeteries suggests that early metallurgists were not only working with iron from terrestrial sources but also incorporating metal from ataxite meteorites—an extremely rare form of nickel-rich iron that originates in space. A Witnessed Meteorite Fall?

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How Digital Tools Improve Teaching and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

This is true for both online classrooms as well as “blended” classrooms, those integrating online and digital tools into a traditional learning setting. Written and video discussions online can enable diverse views, opportunities for collaboration, and time to think and plan before responding in ways that in-class discussions do not provide.

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Improving Instruction in a Digital World

A Principal's Reflections

This framework, based on traditional elements of education yet encouraging movement from acquisition of knowledge to application of knowledge, charts learning along the two dimensions of higher standards and student achievement.

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Two Worlds, Two Technologies: The Divergent Stone Industries of the Uluzzian and Châtelperronian Peoples

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To correct this, the team organized a workshop where archaeologists directly examined artifacts from both traditions side by side. 7, 8) Core with two opposing faces with parallel detachments This fundamental difference in technique suggests that these groups did not learn from one another or share a common cultural tradition.

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Looking at Teacher Accountability Through a New Lens

A Principal's Reflections

We need to realize that this, along with other traditional elements associated with education, no longer prevail. These traditional pathways used to drive change typically result in resentment, undermining, and failure. The bottom line is that they are bored. Others can as well.