TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

What is Duolingo? by TeachThought Staff Definition: Duolingo is a popular language-learning platform that provides free online courses in multiple languages. Audience: K-12 Teachers, Students It offers a gamified approach to language learning, making it engaging and interactive for users. Duolingo offers courses in over 40 languages, including widely spoken languages like English, Spanish, French, German, and Chinese, as well as less commonly taught languages like Swahili, Welsh, and Navajo.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Editor Sherry is the Associate Chair and Assistant Professor Teaching Stream in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, specializing in pedagogical research in biological anthropology, and community-engaged learning with the local Indigenous community. Sherry is currently involved in research investigating ways to utilize technology to implement problem-based learning experiences in biological anthropology.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Innovative Methods in Language Learning: How Technology is Transforming Education Learning a new language is kinda like standing before the ruins of the Tower of Babel, tasked with rebuilding it. The stones are so large… so many. They look so heavy. Where do you start? What’s the best way to make progress? Good news! Language learners today can access countless methods to make it manageable — even fun.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Editor Stacey is Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University, specialising in the analysis of archaeological human remains. Stacey’s current research foci include exploring the effectiveness of online practical training in biological anthropology, exploring the global dispersal of intentional cranial modification behaviours using spatial statistics, and investigating the biocultural impacts of large-scale social change in late prehistoric communities in Northeast Th

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Equity In Education: A Definition by Terry Heick In a profession increasingly full of angst and positioning and corrective policy, there are few ideas as easy to get behind as equity. Equal. Equality. Equity. Equilibrium. Equate. These are all fine ideas—each tidy and whole, implying their own kind of justice while connotating the precision of mathematics.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Editor-in-Chief Alison is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the department of Anthropology, UCL. Her academic expertise is in education and pedagogy, and her research spans primary, secondary and higher education contexts in England. Her research focuses on the politics of education with a specific interest in alternative and progressive approaches to schooling and relational pedagogy.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The need was becoming dire. A school district in Brighton, in the Denver metro area of Colorado, was having a hard time keeping teachers. The salaries in the district, 27J Schools, were low for the region. And in Colorado, voters have to approve higher property taxes to send additional dollars to schools, including for salary bumps , but by 2018 voters had refused six straight times.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Recent archaeological research 1 in northeast Germany has revealed new insights into Europe’s oldest known battlefield, the Tollense Valley, dating back 3,250 years. Using detailed analysis of arrowheads and human remains, researchers are reconstructing the story of this violent confrontation. Findings suggest that this ancient battle marked the beginning of large-scale, organized warfare in Europe.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic was that many families didn’t have reliable internet access at home. As schools closed and classes moved online, educators rushed to improvise solutions for families without robust connections, setting up mobile Wi-Fi access points in school buses, sending home portable hot spots to those who needed it and more.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

We love hearing how people found us and why they’ve signed up to access people’s history lessons from the Zinn Education Project. Below are a few reasons people shared when they registered at our site recently. I have used some of these resources and loved them. I have the incredible chance to expand the depth and breadth of what I do in my classroom so, of course, I came to the Zinn Education Project to find more resources!

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Women's History Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces a free talk on Egyptologist Mary Brodrick (1858-1933) by Rosalind Janssen. 4 November (6-7.15pm) at Senate House Library: Brodrick, a pioneer Egyptologist and keen geographer, spent most of her life in Egypt associating with the likes of Cromer and Kitchener and playing some part in British colonial rule.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In an interview with the Smithsonian Science Education Center, Dr.

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Women's History Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces a free talk: Mary Somerville: A Mathematician in Regency London by Brigitte Stenhouse on 12 November (6-7.30pm) at Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre.

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ShortCutsTV

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The Thomas Theorem, created by W.I.

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Women's History Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces a free talk: Collective Emotions: Jane Harrison, a talk on the interplay of myth and ritual in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell. Tuesday 19 November at 5.30pm at Senate House Library, Bloomsbury. Jane Harrison is part of the history of Bloomsbury, and of women’s university education in the late nineteenth century.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Do Local Roots Impact Washington Behaviors? District Connections and Representation in the U.S. Congress By Jesse Crosson , Purdue University , and Jaclyn Kaslovsky , Rice University Although commentators often point to the political value of legislators’ geographic ties, less is known about the influence of such connections once in office. Given recent scholarship underscoring the importance of geography as a dimension of identity, we argue that local legislators should behave as descriptive re

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 24, 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 first in a series of five blog posts elevating key learnings from this set of investments.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, along California’s Central Coast, would be the first of its kind in the U.S. to be nominated by Native peoples. ✽ When the soul of a deceased member of the Chumash peoples bathes before departing for the afterlife, many say it does so at Humqaq , or Point Conception. ( The spelling of the place name varies across Chumash languages; Humqaq is the spelling used by the Northern Chumash Tribal Council. ) According to Chumash generational knowl

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Keene at MAHG 2021 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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