The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 22, 2025
JOLIET, Ill. After several challenging and stressful months in the neonatal intensive care unit, Karen Heath couldnt wait to take her triplet sons home. The boys had been born severely premature at 25 weeks, each weighing a bit over a pound. In the early hours, doctors cautioned they would not survive long. The triplets, thankfully, proved the doctors wrong.
ED Surge
JANUARY 22, 2025
Earlier this month at Truesdell Elementary, in the last five minutes of one of my classes, I called for my students' attention. Class, class! I called. Yes, yes, they responded in unison. I have a recognition to make. I held up one of my fourth grade students perspective drawings and projected it for the class to see. His carefully rendered parallel, vertical and diagonal lines converging at the vanishing point created a stunning visual.
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The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 22, 2025
LONDON Participants at one of the worlds largest early childhood conferences late last year were eager to learn from each other, and notably collegial until one of the final sessions of the event. During a presentation about artificial intelligence in early childhood, a presenter suggested using an AI program to create artwork based on child prompts.
Strange Maps
JANUARY 22, 2025
Why didnt the Romans invent the steam engine, electricity, or the airplane? Perhaps because they were 3 IQ points less clever than they could have been. The culprit: lead pollution but not of the kind we already knew about. Odd and violent behavior The Romans drank tap water from lead pipes, prepared and ate their food on lead-containing kitchenware, used lead in their cosmetics, and even sweetened and preserved their wine with lead acetate.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 22, 2025
The post Can Digital Pencils Really Revolutionize Math Learning for Students? appeared first on Digital Promise.
Political Science Now
JANUARY 22, 2025
Context Matters: Understanding Student Usage, Skills, and Attitudes Toward AI to Inform Classroom Policies By Christine Cahill and Katherine McCabe , Rutgers University With the growing prevalence of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, political science instructors are navigating how to manage the use and misuse of AI in the classroom. This study underscores the prevalence of AI in academic settings and suggests pedagogical practices to integrate AI in the classroom in ways that are informed by students
Living Geography
JANUARY 22, 2025
Another term-time Wednesday means it's time for another Worldly Wednesday The publication of a Substack newsletter was the first task of the day. #3 was published this morning. Thanks to all those who have already subscribed will have received your copies by email. The subscriber list is growing, but not as fast as I'd like. For the rest of the day I mostly worked on a new publishing project.
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Living Geography
JANUARY 22, 2025
Shared by the Met Office. Each group will be tasked with imagining they work for a local weather office and have to make a poster to help people understand what to do to prepare for a specific extreme weather event and reduce its impacts.
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 22, 2025
A Century of Transformation in Human Bodies Over the last century, the global stage has witnessed dramatic shifts in human health, nutrition, and socio-economic development. But how have these changes reshaped our very bodies? A new study led by David Giofrè and colleagues, published in Biology Letters 1 , sheds light on an evolutionary phenomenon that links male physical growth to environmental improvements.
Living Geography
JANUARY 22, 2025
2024 was the year when the weather continued to break. and break records. 2024 broke records for extreme weather heatwaves, droughts, storms, & floods killed thousands & displacing millions. World Weather Attribution & @ClimateCentral show these were intensified by human-induced climate change. Learn more [link] via @UNDRR pic.twitter.com/qeWLNE5cWb UN Biodiversity (@UNBiodiversity) January 20, 2025 From UN Disaster Risk Reduction.
Sapiens
JANUARY 22, 2025
An archaeologist from Palestine is urgently working to assess archaeological sites in the West Bank devastated by destruction and looting amid Israels ongoing war in the region. SIGNS OF LOOTING appear everywhere at archaeological sites across the West Bank. Amid Israels ongoing war in the region, subsistence looterspeople seeking personal profit due to enforced impoverishmentcome to these archaeological sites in pursuit of valuable objects.
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