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Would You Rather: Transfer and Apply

Catlin Tucker

The first and second blogs in this series focused on providing meaningful choices when students are acquiring information and making meaning. What activities can I use to help my grade students understand the cultural/historical context of ? In this third and final installment of our “Would You Rather?”

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Call for Fellowship Applications: Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History

Society for Classical Studies

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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Hospitality and Care towards the (Un)knowable Stranger in Greek Orthodox Charities

Anthropology News

The stranger as a general category of analysis stands out within the social sciences precisely for what Georg Simmel dubbed this “constellation” of “near[ness] and far[ness] at the same time.” Filoxenia is splashed across newspaper articles , tourism websites , and travel blogs.

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Persistent problems: A powerful paradigm for professional development

A Psychology Teacher Writes

So running some PD on questioning techniques because you’ve read a few great blogs or books on it is pointless unless you’re pretty sure that almost everyone else in the room is going to actually benefit from it. Evidence Based Education blog. This becomes, therefore, a much more collective endeavour rather than a solo struggle.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We’d have a variety of Social Studies simulations and games available to us.

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What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

ED Surge

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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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. Bringing the Disciplines Together. Challenges of 21st-Century Learning.