TeachThought

JANUARY 8, 2025

Whether you're using data to personalize learning or refine curriculum, the ability to easily check for understanding is critical to your teaching.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 8, 2025

Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by Alpaca and Brisk Teaching Every January for the last ten years, we have chosen a small collection of tech tools we think are worth checking out. That will be the same this year. But something else will be different: Traditionally, when we put out this list, we do it to coincide with the release of our annual Teacher’s Guide to Tech.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 8, 2025

In affinity, we find kinship. Our shared interests move us toward one another and give us opportunities for connection, deep empathy and shared experiences. Our worldviews collide, and we are no longer alone; we are in a community. One of the first times I felt like I was in community was in my high school jazz band as a teenager. I auditioned to be a part of the Ravinia Scholars , joining a group of teenage musicians from high schools all over Chicago.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2025

The first time I talked to Amy Lee Funes, our conversation left me stunned. In spite of the fact that she earned only $35,000 a year and lived in one of the most expensive cities in the world, Funes made too much to qualify for public assistance paying for child care. Her only option was to take a pay cut, a city official told her in late 2019. Funes, who had recently moved far away from her mother (a free source of child care) to escape an abusive relationship, desperately needed child care.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 8, 2025

Wallacea, the sprawling chain of islands in eastern Indonesia that includes Timor-Leste, has long been a crossroads of cultures, languages, and genetics. A recent study sheds new light on its human history, highlighting the deep impact of migrations from New Guinea into this region approximately 3,500 years ago. The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 (PNAS), combines insights from genetics, linguistics, and archaeology to paint a more complete picture of Wallac

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Living Geography

JANUARY 8, 2025

Was interested to read about the impact of a new TV drama on Danish television made by Thomas Vinterberg who has previously made some very high profile films including the excellent 'Another Round', which won the Oscar in 2020. Familier som vores (Families Like Ours) a drama which depicts a flooded Denmark shut down and evacuated has been viewed nearly 1m times and become a national talking point.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2025

The climate crisis is not in some distant future. It is being felt around the world with heatwaves, floods, and most dramatically with the wildfires in Southern California. Our hearts go out to the residents who face the tragic loss of lives, homes, and entire communities. #TeachClimateJustice : Invite students to listen to news about the fires and come up with their own terms for the disaster, such as fossil-fueled disaster or climate change disaster.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 8, 2025

It's 35 years since I started listening to Bob. and he's a powerhouse live.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

JANUARY 8, 2025

SUNY, a member institution of College Presidents for Civic Preparedness, is introducing a civic discourse requirement to its undergraduate curriculum.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 8, 2025

This has now gone out to subscribers, who are growing in number. Thanks if you have already subscribed. Read it here. These will come out weekly from now on. Go here to view / subscribe.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 8, 2025

CFP: Ancient Drama in Performance VIII kskordal Wed, 01/08/2025 - 12:41 Image Ancient Drama in Performance VIII October 3-6, 2025 Ancient Drama in Performance VIII will coincide with the 2025 Randolph College Greek Play: Sophocles Antigone , an original-practices production. The play and response to it will be part of a weekend of scholarly and practical exchanging of ideas on ancient theatre.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 8, 2025

Thanks to Rafael De Miguel Gonzlez , President of EuroGeo for the tipoff to a newish AI tool to explore how 'ready' a particular area is for becoming a 15 minute city. He recently met the architect of the idea: Carlos Moreo. 15 min city AI is a nice free AI tool. It explores a range of amenities including transportation connections, healthcare and entertainment, and how accessible these are from each part of the area within 15 minutes travel time.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 8, 2025

Pedagogical Deficiencies in Political Science Doctoral Programs: Current Practices or Lack Thereof By Matthew Stein , College of Southern Nevada Calls to increase the amount and quality of pedagogical training in political science doctoral programs have been heard far and wide. Despite the ongoing rhetoric, a thorough investigation into the teaching training received by doctoral students had not been published in over a decade.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 8, 2025

I usually get that many views on a slow day here on LivingGeography but not all of my blogs have received quite the same attention as yet (although after all it took a few years before my early websites and blogs gained traction). At the Home of Geography is a blog which outlines my work as the Vice President Education of the Royal Geographical Society.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2025

Pickup trucks with trailers and cars with yawning trunks pulled up onto untended lawns in front of buildings from which people lugged books, furniture, mattresses, trophy cases and artwork. Anything else of value had already been sold by a company that specializes in auctioning off the leftover assets of failed businesses. At least one of the buildings was soon to be demolished altogether, its red-brick walls dumped into its 1921 foundation.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 8, 2025

Another term-time Wednesday means it's time for another Worldly Wednesday - the first of 2025. I enjoyed a break over Christmas but am now back at school. The first thing to mention is something that will be a part of all Worldly Wednesdays going forward. The publication of a Substack newsletter. #1 was published this morning. You can subscribe and view it here.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 8, 2025

CFP: Revisiting the Scene: Mirror Scenes in Greek and Roman Theater kskordal Wed, 01/08/2025 - 13:15 Image Revisiting the Scene: Mirror Scenes in Greek and Roman Theater Organizers: Vasileios Dimoglidis (University of Cincinnati), Christopher Gipson (Loyola Marymount University) 16th Celtic Conference in Classics Tuesday 15 July Friday 18 July 2025, University of Coimbra, Coimbra In ancient Greek and Roman theater, scenes are often constructed to recall a previously presented scene, either verb

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2025

Una gran parte del trabajo de Elizabeth House es alentar a los estudiantes a completar la Solicitud Gratuita de Ayuda Federal para Estudiantes, o FAFSA, por sus siglas en ingls. La FAFSA es clave para obtener ayuda financiera como las Becas Pell y los prstamos respaldados por el gobierno federal, pero los padres deben proporcionar sus nmeros de Seguro Social o colocar nueve ceros si no tienen uno.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 8, 2025

CFP: The Goddess at the Crossing Place kskordal Wed, 01/08/2025 - 12:02 Image The Goddess at the Crossing Place 6-8 March 2025, Marshall University To honor the 150th anniversary of Classics at Marshall University, the Department of Humanities announces a conference that focuses on Goddess traditions. We will explore the concepts evoked by the phrase, The Goddess at the Crossing Place.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 8, 2025

CFP: Plutarch and the Natural World kskordal Wed, 01/08/2025 - 12:19 Image Plutarch and the Natural World 13th International Congress of the International Plutarch Society 11-13 June 2025, Groningen, Netherlands The relationship of mankind to the natural world has always been, and remains, a topic of vital intellectual interest. In the ancient world, the urge to explain puzzling natural phenomena provided a spur to the development of philosophy, historiography and medicine; and Plutarch provides

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