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The Week That Was in 234

Moler's Musing

This week was all about using EduProtocols to drive deeper thinking, engagement, and writing practice as we explored westward expansion and Manifest Destiny. Instead of just reading from the textbook and answering questions, students worked through activities that encouraged them to generate their own questions, analyze sources, and compare perspectives.

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The Multilingual Cradle: How Babies in Ghana Absorb Up to Six Languages from Birth

Anthropology.net

A World of Languages from the Start For decades, research on infant language acquisition has been dominated by studies conducted in what scientists call "WEIRD" societies—Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. These studies have shaped the prevailing notion that infants primarily learn language through direct one-on-one interactions with a primary caregiver, often in a single language.

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National Character Areas: The Fens and beyond

Living Geography

Natural England has updated the National Landscape Character assessments on their website. Wherever you are in England you are in one of these areas, which has a particular character. Each NCA represents an area of distinct and recognisable character at the national scale. Their boundaries follow natural lines in the landscape, not county or district boundaries.

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A Harsh Childhood: Bioarchaeologists Examine Health and Survival in the Pre-Columbian Andes

Anthropology.net

A child buried in the Andean highlands over 2,500 years ago might have lived a short and difficult life. Their bones, preserved beneath the arid Peruvian soil, tell a story of malnutrition, disease, and systemic hardship. At the Quebrada Chupacigarro Cemetery (QCC) in the Supe Valley, the skeletal remains of dozens of young children show clear signs of stress, raising new questions about how sociopolitical upheaval shaped the most vulnerable members of society.

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Collections 5: Flipbooks

ShortCutsTV

The next Collection in a series that includes Learning Mats, Revision Resources, Simulations and the ever-popular Introductory Sociology, brings together all the Flipbook posts dotted around the Blog I could find and puts them into one handy cut-out-and-keep post. Don’t thank me.

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A Tribute to Dr. John Hale, scholar, archaeologist, author, friend and singer!

Life and Landscapes

Dr. John Hale in his long time home in New Albany, Indiana with Reggie Van Stockum reading a tribute to Dr. Hale from his book entitled “Surrounding Fort Knox, Including Southern Indiana.” February 15, 2025. Philip Hendershot on camera. Just click on my Vimeo link below if the video link doesn’t pop right up! The Life and Landscapes blog site is at: www.vanstockum.blog/lookin Also find me at: www.facebook.com/reggievanstockum www.instagram.com/reggievanstockum www.vimeo.com/reg

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The Value of Pan-Africanism

Perspectives in Anthropology

Written by Adeoluwa Chukwu During an age where the flame of Pan-Africanism has been severely dimmed by the wave of neocolonialism, it is crucial to revisit the value of Pan-Africanism and why this ideology ought to be the future of African governance.

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Why I Registered

Zinn Education Project

We love hearing how people found us and why theyve signed up to access peoples history lessons from the Zinn Education Project. Here a few of the hundreds of comments educators shared in February. Note that, despite and in response to the Executive Orders censoring teaching honestly, teachers are bravely signing up in greater numbers to access peoples history lessons.

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Cairo between Dystopia and Umm al-Dunya

Anthropology News

I typically avoided Islamic Cairos crowded streets on Fridays, but I decided to attend the congregational prayer at al-Azhar Mosque with Ibrahim and Omar, two British Muslims I had met weeks prior. We took a microbus from Nasr City. It dropped us off on a narrow street. We walked ten minutes, dodging street vendors and bread couriers on bikes. The mosque soon came into view and the sight was dystopic: rows of security forces, equipped with batons, helmets, and tactical vests surrounded al-Azhar.