Fri.Jun 28, 2024

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AI: Another Big Adjustment for Educators

World History Teachers Blog

Edsurge just published a new story by Jeffery R. Young about new features of AI that will require educators to make even more adjustments. First, Open AI is making its latest generation of Chatbot free to anyone. Second, new tools make it easier for students to skip notetaking in class. For example, one tool allows students to simply record a teacher's lecture.

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Neanderthal Child with Down’s Syndrome Unveils Early Human Compassion

Anthropology.net

A groundbreaking study 1 has revealed that a Neanderthal child with Down’s syndrome survived until at least the age of six, providing the earliest-known evidence of the genetic condition and hinting at compassionate caregiving among Neanderthals. This discovery offers profound insights into the social dynamics and empathy within Neanderthal communities.

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Two-year teaching plan for the new psychology curriculum

Psychology Sorted

Planning ahead This two-year plan is for a combined HL/SL class. It will also work if you are lucky enough to teach your HL and SL students separately. Tomorrow I will provide a one-year plan for teaching SL students. Though the IB Diploma psychology is recommended as a two-year course , I know that some teachers have to fit it into one year! The recommended teaching hours from the subject brief are: This equates to about 3 hours a week for SL over two years and around 5 hours for HL.

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As Schools Serve More Immigrant Children, Demand Grows for Bilingual Psychologists

ED Surge

A couple of years ago, as schools that had been forced to go virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic began to bring students back on campus, Pedro Olvera noticed that his phone started ringing more. Olvera spent much of his career as a school psychologist in Santa Ana Unified School District, just a stone’s throw from Disneyland, where about 40 percent of students are English learners who speak Spanish.

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In Memoriam: David Konstan

Society for Classical Studies

In Memoriam: David Konstan kskordal Fri, 06/28/2024 - 08:35 Image David Konstan: November 1, 1940 – May 2, 2024 [link] The Society for Classical Studies is deeply saddened by the recent loss of David Konstan, who passed away Thursday, May 2, 2024. He served as President of the SCS (then named the American Philological Association) in 1999, and he was the recipient of the Charles J.

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The Tricky Relationship Between Open-Mindedness, Critical Thinking and Indoctrination

Pedagogy and Formation

In this post I want to address what I see as the tension for people of faith between three well known concepts, 'Open-mindedness', 'Critical thinking' and 'Indoctrination'. My specific focus will be on how Christian schools deal with them. For some of my readers who identify with other faiths, what I have to say has equal relevance to you too. Educating the whole child, involves many things, but the role of faith in their (and our) lives must be central and obvious.

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Let’s talk AI and Education

C3 Teachers

With the rise of AI, I’m thinking about what it means to be human? How is the human experience lifted up or pulled down by AI? Do you care if it’s a human or a bot? If your interaction with an AI bot meets your human needs, does it really matter if it’s not human? You may recall Kevin Roose’s encounter with “Sydney,” an early beta version AI-powered Bing search tool.

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Why schools are teaching math word problems all wrong

The Hechinger Report

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. — When Natalia Molina began teaching her second grade students word problems earlier this school year, every lesson felt difficult. Most students were stymied by problems such as: “Sally went shopping. She spent $86 on groceries and $39 on clothing. How much more did Sally spend on groceries than on clothing?” Both Molina, a first-year teacher, and her students had been trained to tackle word problems by zeroing in on key words like “and,” “more” and “total” — a simplistic ap

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