Anthropology.net

MARCH 4, 2025

Credit: University of Barcelona The study, led by Hamza Benattia and his team, presents the first definitive evidence of a continuous settlement in the northwestern Maghreb from at least 2200 BCE to 600 BCE. This discovery does more than just fill a gap—it forces a reassessment of Mediterranean history itself. 1 Benattia, H.,

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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.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

A new study 1 challenges long-held beliefs about the origins of horseback riding, casting doubt on the Kurgan hypothesis, which claims that humans first began domesticating horses as early as the fourth millennium B.C. Horseback riding can indeed leave subtle marks on the human body. Can Horseback Riding Change Your Skeleton?

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TeachThought

JUNE 18, 2024

How to Set Effective Goals Now that you know the definition of learning goals, let’s see how to set an objective that will be effective. Explore biological systems and their functions in human biology. Understand the cultural, social, and economic factors in history. Learn to write comprehensive history essays.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 7, 2011

In an article for SEEN Magazine Dr. Daggett provides some nice working definitions for these two terms: Rigor - Academic rigor refers to learning in which students demonstrate a thorough in-depth mastery of challenging tasks to develop cognitive skills through reflective thought, analysis, problem solving, evaluation or creativity.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Has it evolved – definitely! The process of making has been in our DNA since the dawn of human civilization to create tools for hunting and survival. With all the hoopla in regards to maker education and makerspaces I wanted to take a minute to share that this is not a new concept.

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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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Moler's Musing

APRIL 11, 2025

Starting with Language We began with a short but important conversation about how we talk about people in history. Theyre human first. More importantly, the video gave a broader definition of resistance. Not property, not background characters in someone elses story. That helped break a common misconception right away.

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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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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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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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Studies Weekly

APRIL 14, 2025

Human-recorded audio has synchronized highlighting so that the students can see reading modeled and bring general and domain-specific vocabulary into their oral vocabulary. Reading improvement is built into texts about various subjects, such as history, science, and social studies. 1 As made clear by Fisher, et al.

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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.

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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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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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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.,

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Drawing from biological and social sciences, as well as clinical sciences, medical anthropologists have contributed significantly to the understanding and improvement of human health and health services worldwide. disease represents an aspect of the environment that is both influenced by human behavior and requires biocultural adaptations 3.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

I regularly offer a course at my university called Teaching the Holocaust: History and Memory. This definition explains that Judaism is first and foremost a religion. That is particularly alarming because it means the reopening of the case fundamentally challenges the definition of Judaism. Most of the students aren’t Jewish.

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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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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?

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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.

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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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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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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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