Digital Promise

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes. This is the fourth in a series of five blog posts elevating key learnings from this set of investments.

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Teaching Anthropology

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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Anthropology 130

ED Surge

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Miguel Quinteros spent over a decade as something of a tech-savvy teacher — one not afraid to try new things in the classroom, in hopes that they would make learning more interesting, more intuitive and more engaging for his students. He took that proclivity to the next level a few years ago, when he accepted a position as a K-12 technology coach in a small school district in western Michigan.

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Teaching K-12 Social Studies Museum 102

Teaching Anthropology

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Natalie, It’s fine for you to use personal addresses The problem is that we need a real mailbox belonging to the domain “teachinganthropology.org” to send emails from the system (both ojs and wp). We have so far used editors@teachinganthropology.org. In the past this was also a forwarding address, as you note.

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Anthropology Teaching 130

ED Surge

OCTOBER 8, 2024

When Robert Ubell first applied for a job at a university's online program back in the late ’90s, he had no experience with online education. But then again, hardly anyone else did either. First of all, the web was still relatively new back then (something like the way AI chatbots are new today), and only a few colleges and universities were even trying to deliver courses on it.

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History Teaching Education Educational Technology 100

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. New research 1 into ancient DNA from this site has now provided groundbreaking insights into the genetic history of its inhabitants, revealing a remarkable genetic continuity over thousands of years.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Indiana Garcia, a former Fulbright scholar from Nicaragua is pursuing a Ph.D. in public affairs at the University of Missouri, focusing on immigration policy and qualitative research methods. With nearly two decades of nonprofit experience, she has witnessed firsthand migration’s profound effects on sending and receiving communities. As a migrant herself, she is deeply committed to giving a humanitarian face to policy by conveying the needs and aspirations of both migrants and host societies.

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Humanities Research 52

ShortCutsTV

OCTOBER 8, 2024

If you’re a teacher or student looking for AQA A-Level and GCSE Psychology resources then Learndojo is probably a pretty good place to start.

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Psychology 52

Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Call for Applications: Bibliographical Society of America Fellowships kskordal Tue, 10/08/2024 - 10:27 Image The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) funds more than a dozen fellowships supporting a broad range of bibliographical pursuits to promote critical inquiry and research in the field of bibliography in both traditional and emerging formats.

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Tradition Research 52

Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

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. Keene, a specialist in American military experience during World War I, has published three studies of this subject, along with numerous essays, journal articles, and encyclopedia entries.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 8, 2024

CFP: Ancient Philosophy Society 2025 kskordal Tue, 10/08/2024 - 10:43 Image Call For Papers The Ancient Philosophy Society for the Study of Ancient Greek and Roman Thought Annual Independent Meeting 24-26 April 2025 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Ancient Philosophy Society for the Study of Ancient Greek and Roman Thought (APS) was established to provide a forum for diverse scholarship on ancient Greek and Roman texts.

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