ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This is the fourth in a series of five blog posts elevating key learnings from this set of investments. Today’s blog explores how three grantees centered equity and reduced bias in education-based AI. Today’s blog explores how three grantees centered equity and reduced bias in education-based AI. Check out last week’s post here.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

For the purpose of this blog, I will use the lens of situated learning theory, introduced by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, to examine the potential effectiveness of online learning. Activity, context, and culture are central to this learning theory, which emphasizes the practical over the abstract. Participation.

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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 6, 2025

But the first humans once living here probably walked in hunting. The Adena People, the Hopewellian traders, the Mississippian maize-based cultures? The Life and Landscapes Blog Site is at [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] @reggievanstockum1097 [link] #reggievanstockum #reggiesrealm #kentuckyauthor #lifeandlandscapes

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Stewarding an inclusive network requires time, money, and human capital. It requires listening to community, acknowledging harm, and making changes—across partnerships, leadership, culture, funding, and programming. Read our blog series on EdClusters’ COVID-19 responses here.). Dedicated stewardship is required.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 15, 2018

As UVA Professor Edward Hess notes, the Smart Machine Age rising in our homes, communities, schools, and workforce is fundamentally altering society, culture, and learning. The post Timeless Learning: Progressive Education Based in How Humans Have Always Learned appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The point is that the connections between humanities and science have been lost in today’s separation of disciplines. Indeed, a recent report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences discovered that humanities and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) training majors largely dwell in different silos.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

I am an archaeologist, a scientist who uses the remains of objects, structures, and other traces of human activity to reconstruct how past peoples lived. accepted evolution , agreeing with the statement, “Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.” Hancock invited a direct debate.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

A Human Relations Committee Forms to Plan Integration In Belmont, a small town just west across the Catawba River from Charlotte, school integration presented fewer logistical problems, because segregated schools for black and white children were situated within a mile of each other.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “I used to think…Now, I think…” routine. Biodiversity Loss: Students might claim the reasons for declining biodiversity, provide evidence from ecological studies, and ask questions about the consequences for ecosystems and human societies.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 16, 2018

Are you decorating your room in a manner that is representative of all cultures ? Educators also should work towards learning about the backgrounds of their students so they understand students’ cultural and social norms. We also have to avoid the pitfall of teaching about the same historical people from various cultures as well (e.g.,

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This particular activity comes on the heels of a discussion of cultural universals in comparative perspective. Human hygiene is taken as an example. Why and how it is done varies across cultures. 1951/1954), Bathing Babies in Three Cultures. Cleansing the body is a universal behavior. It is not one size fits all’.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: “People think it’s about boxes and wires and that’s just the beginning,” said Beth Holland, digital equity and rural project director at the Consortium for School Networking, an industry association for tech directors across the country. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Often, the product of this influence is a colonialist narrative that presents past cultures as flawed or inconsistent (because they fail to meet modern criteria) and modern (usually Western) cultures as the resolution of these inconsistencies. After their visit, scholars will write a piece for the Future of the Past Lab’s blog.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It seems that our recent (timid) interest in cultivating multiliteracies in anthropological work follows directly from his early 20 th -century view that human communication involves not only linguistic or verbal exchanges, but also non-verbal cues and gestures, such as tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. Embodied space (s) anthropological theories of body, space, and culture. Space and culture , 6(1), 9-18.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Conceptual Jumping Off Point 2: Duncan Hines as Cultural Transmitter 5. Cultural Baking Kits: Develop themed baking kits that introduce children to various cultural traditions through baking. Include Duncan Hines mixes and instructions that teach both baking skills and cultural values. Human Organization.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Claim-Evidence-Question” routine. This could mean considering how a community or group (which could be as small as the classroom or as large as humanity) would perceive the subject or how it might affect or be affected by it.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Effective edtech has never — and should never — be designed to replace human relationships with students. Effective edtech has never — and should never — be designed to replace human relationships with students. Some products show promise; others fall flat. What Does It Do? Does It Have a Solid Evidence Base?

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Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio As the human population continues to expand into what was once wilderness, people increasingly come in contact with wildlife. Living with Javelinas explores how humans and nonhumans can coexist in ways that respect the autonomy and agency of all beings involved.

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Digital Promise

MAY 6, 2019

But there are also cultural specifications to what play looks like, when it’s appropriate, and who children play with. While learning through play is universal, what that looks like depends on the culture. But there are also cultural specifications to what play looks like, when it’s appropriate, and who children play with.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

This blog is jointly authored by Vic Crooks and Laura London based on a presentation we gave at the Historical Association Conference in May 2024. link] You may also be interested in this blog about talking with children about the situation in Ukraine. Grosvenor (2000, p.157), London, L., & Haydn, T. References Dawkins, J.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

When I came to Achievement First Brooklyn High School eight years ago as the ninth grade literature teacher, it was my fourth year of teaching and my first time in a school that was unapologetically rooted in the “no excuses” model , which centers a results-driven culture that prioritizes strict behavioral procedures and academic policies.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Decades of research documents the benefits of coaching for teachers, students, and school culture. This blog post will discuss the importance of coaching for teachers from a new perspective: neurobiology. The reason emotions and the socio-cultural environment are so powerful is that they are intertwined with our cognition.

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Anthropology 365

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Anthropology is the study of humans, or as Dr. Jon Marks says: “the study of who we are and where we come from.” ” I consider it to be the study of humans and the variety of relationships humans have. However, for much of my career, I have studied non-human animals (mostly primates).

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

Gotto Chair in Child Development and professor of psychology and human development at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Many teachers have been trained to think of belonging as only a product of classroom culture and student social relationships, that ultimately students have to learn to negotiate and navigate. and Antonio M.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The power of VR to stoke empathy is the focus of research at Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, led by communications professor Jeremy Bailenson. Mark’s blog post about teaching empathy mentions both the refugee VR video and one about the lives of police in Flint, Michigan. “In

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Anthropology modules appear in programs in three programs I have taught: Archaeology and Anthropology, Human Sciences, and Music. I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012).

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Anthropology 365

AUGUST 9, 2024

While I am concerned about the wellbeing of Cujo, as an environmental anthropologist who studies human-wildlife relations, I am interested in the factors that facilitated the coyote attack. My research focuses on ways humans and wildlife find ways to co-exist. This is a DIY coyote roller I found on a blog.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics. And so on… .

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Digital Promise

MARCH 15, 2022

Project Name: Reviving Culture and Promoting Disaster Resilience. Essential Question: How do we revive culture and promote disaster resilience with the help of technology? Essential Question: How does human activity affect our wildlife below water? Site: Vikas Bharati Public School , Delhi, India. Project Name: STEM Farm.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 15, 2021

Since its launch in 2018, MY World 360° annual selections have screened for and inspired people across the world at the UN General Assembly, UN SDG Global Festival of Action, film festivals, schools and community events, and cultural institutions. A Community of Content Creators.

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Moler's Musing

AUGUST 28, 2024

In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how I collaborated with AI (ChatGPT) to develop a comprehensive 5-6 day unit on Native American history, tailored specifically for my 8th-grade students. Day 3: How did cultural biases and U.S. Balancing these demands while keeping lessons engaging and accessible can be challenging.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

David Armstrong (1995) has famously analysed the emergence of what he refers to as “surveillance medicine” this involves the extension of the “medical gaze” from the human body and its biology into social spaces. This is partly because of a change in the kinds of diseases which are most prominent in Western societies. Armstrong, D.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Called Crypto, Culture, & Society , the group organizes courses that bring knowledge from the arts, humanities and social sciences into conversations about the Web3 world being dreamed into reality. That’s an idea pitched in a recent blog post co-written by Saraf and entrepreneur Scott Meyer.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Students were prompted to find images that represent contemporary pop culture, and then to use Adobe Photoshop Elements to create their own Warhol-inspired work. Two of our VILS locations are on Maui, Hawaii, which has an extraordinarily rich culture and strong community traditions. Kalama Intermediate School.

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ASHP CML

JANUARY 12, 2023

Other sources mentioned in the episode: Find Ann Cvetkovich’s An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Duke University Press, 2003) at your local library. Read a blog post about the Black LGBTQ+ StoryCorps Archive at The Schomburg Center. Learn more about the Sylvia Rivera Law Project.

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