ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Wright, definitely had a great impact on my life. I was always interested in history. Definitely. But I did enjoy teaching.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 21, 2025

A New Chapter in Early Human Dispersal The story of humanity's expansion out of Africa has long been marked by unanswered questions about the timing, routes, and survival of early hominins in Eurasia. The team identified 20 specimens with definitive evidence of butchery, a hallmark of early hominin behavior. million years ago.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

It protected health and mental stability and delivered the confidence that you had some control over human failure, at least within your own four walls. Home Econ then became Family and Consumer Science, and now it’s called Human Ecology. Schools have an educational obligation to teach people about meeting human needs and coexisting.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 19, 2024

The study emphasizes the complexity of linking specific genetic changes to historical disease outbreaks and raises questions about the impact of singular events versus repeated epidemics on human evolution. Genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death. Scheib, C. D’Atanasio, E., Inskip, S. Cessford, C.,

Humanities 98

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

schools stokes misconceptions about race and human diversity. On the bus, Lewontin turned his attention to humans. His results have been replicated time and again over the last 50 years, as datasets have ballooned from a handful of proteins to hundreds of thousands of human genomes.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

We have to place facts, history and science at the heart of our education systems. The AP Psychology course has a unit that includes definitions of gender, sexuality, gender roles and stereotypes and discusses socialization factors. I was one of the youngest students in the class, and we learned everything about human behavior.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2025

An anthropologist and poet reflects on a journey of return that tells a larger story about human connection, acts of Indigenous solidarity, and the potential for repair within anthropology. Even now, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History alone has amassed the remains of more than 33,000 individuals.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

However, if humans learn by participating in their lives then how can online learning be effective? This definition emphasizes the need for community, connection, and engagement. Adding video conferencing tools, like Zoom , Google Hangout, or Skype, to online learning allows for a more immediate and human connection.

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Anthropology for Beginners

JANUARY 3, 2021

McIver defines society as “a system of usage and proedurs, of authority and mutual aid of many groupings and divisions, of control over human behaviour and of liberties. While one cannot image to have a society without collection of individuals similarly, one cannot have human beings without forming a mutual social relations.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A recent study led by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy reignites the debate over whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) should be classified as separate species. Neanderthals and Homo sapiens are both humans, but they differ in many ways.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

While we can't definitively say that these early humans crafted stone tools, our findings demonstrate that their hands were frequently used in ways that closely align with the actions necessary for human tool manipulation," explained Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Tübingen.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 19, 2025

An Ancient Cave with Modern Questions Franchthi Cave, nestled in the Peloponnesian peninsula of Greece, has been a silent witness to 40,000 years of human history. Yet, the isotopic signatures of human bones do not strongly reflect these inputs, pointing to their limited dietary importance. Read more 1 Martinoia, V.,

Archaeology 98

Archaeology Humanities Cultures Tradition 98

ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

Instead, I decided to try something new and share a story about one of my first experiences with deeper learning during a history course I took in college: My stomach twisted when I saw the 9 inch by 12 inch, black-and-white picture my professor was holding. The caveat was that we could only use the resources in the library. No internet.

Education 127

Education Library History American History 127

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient.

Psychology 145

Psychology Elementary School High School Humanities 145

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. eyes, noses) weakens this claim.

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? What do I do? I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Here in my home state of Florida , we are arguing about how to teach history and whether we can acknowledge the gender identities of students. A Focus on Teachers “Teachers matter,” to quote the definitive Rand study. The human capital needed to mitigate the risk to our own children and grandchildren is in our reach.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

First, it’s worth noting that talking about the middle class can be tricky because there’s no universal definition. By Pew’s measure, roughly equal shares of Americans have been moving from middle to upper income status as have been falling into the lower income tier, but using a narrower definition of middle class paints a grimmer picture.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

After all, enrollment in history, philosophy, literature and other majors considered to come under the umbrella of the liberal arts has been falling for decades. Related: How to save the humanities? Leave this field empty if you're human: Small private liberal arts colleges also continue to close, most recently St.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Researchers delve into the earliest chapters of European settlement by investigating ancient skull fragments from Crimea, shedding light on the crucial role played by the first modern humans in shaping the continent's history. Genome sequences of 36,000- to 37,000-year-old modern humans at Buran-Kaya III in Crimea. Parasayan, O.,

Humanities 52

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Every world view distinguishes (a) part of the self from another part, thus establishing, as it were, a dialogue within the self; (b) a human nature from that which is nonhuman; (c) classes and categories of the human, i.e., social persons (e.g., Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. government as well.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “They might not be called a fidget spinner but it’s the same thing,” said Paulo Graziano, director of the S.E.L.F.-Regulation “Attention was definitely impacted by the spinner in a bad way,” said Graziano. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

Psychology 137

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These programs painstakingly endeavor to elevate what Chinese academic environments have long downplayed : liberal education, humanities disciplines, and skills like critical thinking. The course was thus designed to be “anti-definition.” For instance, we tried to unpack the history of tombstones based on their minute traces.

Anthropology 98

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The course covers the history of feminism then and now, which includes an extensive lesson on gender violence. As an educator, I embrace my classroom as a place of hope and gathering where the students and I come together to grow our empathy and humanity.

Teaching 107

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 2, 2023

To understand Fine and Mehta’s project, it helps to get a clear definition of what “deep learning” means to them; as Fine acknowledges, “We are far from the only ones who have thought about that.” The episode and full transcript are above; here is a summary of our conversation. What is Deeper Learning?

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

i] History of the usage: The word “peasant” appears in English in late medieval and early modern times, when it was used to refer to the rural poor, rural residents, serfs, agricultural laborers, and the “common” or “simple” people. The category “peasant” was thus only meaningful in relation to a larger society that included non-peasants.

Anthropology 100

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Of course, students need to understand technical terms — “isotope” in a chemistry textbook, “colonize” in a history article — but this knowledge is insufficient if students don’t understand how pieces of language relate to each other to create meaning.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2022

But there were definitely moments where my family needed some backup. And what kids were getting leaned more toward the side of distribution—selling the cartoons, or if it was a real human being, it was human being kid-like, or being cartoon-like, or clown-like. Those types of [TV show] caregivers were fading out.

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Moler's Musing

AUGUST 23, 2024

I was ready to move into content and the question of “Why do we study history?” For my original lesson on “Why do we study history?” ” Under the “define” heading, I had AI create a sentence that could be used to help students use context clues to create a definition.

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Artifacts History Social Studies Lesson Plan 87

ED Surge

MAY 16, 2024

To find out, EdSurge interviewed Terri Hasseler, a professor in the Department of History, Literature, and the Arts at Bryant University in Rhode Island. So the definition of being in the classroom, or the leniency of coming into the classroom because of health, has I think changed a lot. If so, what’s driving the trend?

Economics 131

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rob Coyle Digital Credential Program Manager at 1EdTech Coyle: It seems every credentialing organization has its own definition of microcredentials, alternative credentials, digital credentials and badges.… Your history course may not specify that you are gaining skills in research, writing and evaluation logic.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

I find her cartoons , which are often an interpretation of human nature and behavior, fascinating and witty. Do you love history? If you said yes to either, you should definitely check out Puppet History. The opening to this essay , penned by Finck, sheds some light on why I find her work so entertaining. “A

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History Elementary School Government Humanities 109

Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Through an audio essay, inspired by John Akomfrah’s documentary “The Last Angel of History,” attention is drawn to South Africa’s evolving visual scene and its engagement with cultural nuances within the NFT AI space. In 1995, filmmaker John Akomfrah crafts and experimental film essay titled Last Angel of History.

Cultures 98

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Morrell (D-New Orleans), the bill would raise the legal age in the definition of a delinquent from 17 to 18. Regressive criminal justice policies and harsh school discipline policies are evil cousins that rob black and brown students’ humanity. Sponsored by Sen. This bill should shortly reach Gov. John Bel Edwards for signing.

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