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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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Oakhurst rock shelter, nestled in the cliffs of South Africa’s southern coast, has long been a focal point for archaeologists due to its wealth of artifacts and human remains. These findings offer a new perspective on human population stability and cultural evolution in southern Africa.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

Hollie’s work explores how students' culture impacts how they engage in the school environment. In this sense, culture transcends race and includes age, religion, and class, to name a few. Sharrocky Hollie in places where Black and Brown children were the primary learners. What Standard?

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Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 7, 2024

National Humanities Center Residential Fellowships 2025–2026 kskordal Wed, 08/07/2024 - 08:35 Image National Humanities Center Residential Fellowships 2025–2026 Call for Applications The National Humanities Center invites applications for academic-year or one-semester residential fellowships.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

This act required integration in employment, retail businesses and restaurants, and public facilities like libraries, parks and museumsas well as schools. I was only dimly aware that my father served on the local Human Relations Committee. Might those white parents whose children drew black teachers complain?

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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. Martha Bongiorno School Library and Instructional Technology Lead at Fulton County Schools How did the pandemic affect creativity? However, creativity shouldn’t be reserved for just those content areas.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

By contrast, ethnography is the systematic description of a single contemporary culture, often through ethnographic field. On the other hand, ethnography also designated the aspiration to collect systematically, and according to rigorous procedures, facts about human languages, customs, arts, and achievements.

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Arkansas (1968), which overturned an Arkansas state law prohibiting the teaching of human evolutionary theory, and Edwards v. Aguillard (1987), which invalidated a later Louisiana state law requiring that the teaching of human evolutionary theory be accompanied by instruction in the theory of “creation science.” Pico (1982).

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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. Fellowships will be distributed equally across the 2025-2026 academic year (i.e.,

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 4, 2024

Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows kskordal Mon, 03/04/2024 - 13:37 Image The Future of the Past Lab and the Center for Premodern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities are excited to announce a three-year series of visiting fellowships titled “Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2024

However, human beings aren’t data points that can easily be changed and manipulated. As we approach decisions, we must ask ourselves not only what measurable outcomes our choices will achieve, but also how they will change our culture. All of those things are positive; all are progress. Does that sound hard?

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Maybe you believe gender fluidity has always been a part of human existence and that those statistics only exist because we are just now getting around to naming and measuring it. Your opinion on this is likely to fall into one of several camps: Maybe you see this as a reflection of society’s growing acceptance of gender fluidity.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 4, 2015

Computational thinking is typically associated with coding and computer programming, but it’s also more than that, involving “solving problems, designing systems, and understanding human behavior,” according to Carnegie Mellon University.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

This migration wave was also accompanied by the adoption of Chinese-style laws, language, and cultural practices. Echoes of Ancient DNA In addition to uncovering Japan's ancestral groups, the researchers explored how ancient human DNA persists in modern populations.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2023

Every eighth grader in those schools takes a two-hour workshop class once a week for six weeks, learning everything from how to succeed in an office culture, to developing their strengths and learning how to shake hands in a professional setting. The organization operates the program in five schools in the Boston area.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In fleeing the dustbowl conditions of the Midwest, the migrants had “left behind many of their material possessions,” Czarnecki writes, but the folklore collectors “reasoned that they brought instead an intangible cultural heritage in their stories and songs.” Unidentified Others, Will Neal, Robert Sonkin, Charles Todd, and Robert Hemmig.

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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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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

Source: Library of Congress Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom in the United States. The National Museum of African American History and Culture offers the digital resource, Juneteenth: Celebration of Resilience. Photo by Carol M.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2024

Programs that help establish community support and participation include “Fuertes Together,” a partnership with the public library where families can hear stories in Spanish and English and engage with cultural music, dance and art. As immigrant populations grow throughout the rural U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

The school is one of a number of colleges and universities that are standing out for their humane approaches to the coronavirus. Benedict College paid for Jayla Berry’s travel back home to Detroit from South Carolina after the campus closed.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2023

Composed of high-quality, human-read audiobooks and a suite of teacher resources to monitor and support student progress, the Learning Ally Audiobook Solution is designed to turn struggling readers into engaged learners.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Richard looks at the following curriculum areas: Mathematics English literature and language Science Humanities Creative Arts Languages Physical education The final section looks at how to move towards a whole-school capabilities curriculum, which would take rather more effort but would also be the best way to ensure that the ideas gained traction.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Yet I find myself constantly talking with students I don’t know in the hall, in the library, or outside the cafeteria: “Hey, nice Patriots sweatshirt!”. “Hi, What would happen if all of our students felt like their full humanity was acknowledged in schools?”. Hi, how are you?”. Good morning, and happy Friday!”. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. That demands flexibility on the part of teachers.

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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). so that they may be queried individually or as larger libraries using a chatbot interface. Next, students examined the apps themselves.

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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. Safari Books. Read more about Safari Books’ work.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

People hired through the programs also tend to stay on the job longer; such programs can also broaden a company’s culture by attracting employees, including workers of color, whose life experiences are outside the high school-to-college career arc common in white-collar workplaces. Her aim then was a law degree.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

In a world that has denied my humanity, literature has offered affirmation, consolation and direction. As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. Although the setting is the 1930s Jim Crow South, many students were able to make a connection to this human experience.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

First, a powerful and growing body of research demonstrates that learning is multidimensional — and the social, emotional and academic dimensions of learning are interconnected in the human brain. From parents and caregivers to community-based organizations like libraries and after-school programs, everyone has a role to play.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2019

Some of the students from super-rich families might not even have the language skills or cultural competencies to take part in campus life. And just like soliciting a donation for a new library, such a system would improve the college experience for everyone. Administrators could trim their marketing budgets and development staff.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: The state also sent posters to local job-training centers and college access groups. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The kind of behaviors that we get in this ‘gotcha’ culture of social media are directly the opposite of what is productive in conversation. How do you build community with them before they engage in those kind of discussions to kind of inoculate the conversations against natural human mistakes that people make.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. Jaguar Academy is often library-quiet. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

“Last year I thought about it a lot because as a junior you start to realize how fast things are going,” she said in the library, otherwise empty but for students playing cards. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. No one in her family has ever gotten a degree.

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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. Making Queer History Public is sponsored by a Humanities New York Action Grant. Let us know at cml@gc.cuny.edu

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