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How a Portrait Project Showed Teachers Through a Whole New Lens

Cult of Pedagogy

Dan, Social Science Johanna, Manager of School Facilities Ashley, English Tiffany, Math When I first started shooting, I tried to emulate Kathy Ryan’s style but, as happens with most or all creative projects, the portraits eventually took on a look of their own. Often, they contributed their own concepts or ideas for poses.

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Why an end-of-the alphabet last name could skew your grades

The Hechinger Report

Instead of placing assignments on a table in the front of the classroom, students today upload their work to a website, called a Learning Management System or LMS, where course documents, assignments and communications are all housed. It is currently undergoing revisions with the academic journal Management Science.

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OPINION: As the coronavirus drives students apart, one college devises a course to keep them together

The Hechinger Report

The modules cover remarkable ground: Humanity and Natural Disasters; Intersections of Social Media & Science; Pandemics, Inequality and the Environment; and Coping & Caring for our Communities. ” Related: With enrollment sliding, liberal arts colleges struggle to make a case for themselves.

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Anthropology News

We engaged in a collaborative project based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) designed to explore how AI tools might support undergraduate learning in anthropology. This particular tool allows users to upload their own documents—course readings, research articles, archives, etc.—so

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PROOF POINTS: A spate of recent studies on the “Google effect” adds to evidence that the internet is making us dumber

The Hechinger Report

Plato wrote that his teacher Socrates fretted that writing things down would cause humans to become ignorant because they wouldn’t have to memorize anything. In a 2018 article , 24 researchers declared that the Google effect was one of many dubious claims in social sciences. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Around 370 B.C.,

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WWI and the 1920s: Interview with Jennifer Keene, Part 2.

Teaching American History

Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. Such a document is Charles Isum’s letter to W.

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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. And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment! Washington University in St.