ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

How often do you come in contact with a conspiracy theory? Maybe on occasion, when you flip through TV channels and land on an episode of “Ancient Aliens.” Or perhaps when a friend from high school shares a questionable meme on Facebook. How confident are you in your ability to tell fact from fiction? If you’re a teen, you could be exposed to conspiracy theories and a host of other pieces of misinformation as frequently as every day while scrolling through your social media feeds.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Ancient Artistry of Ochre Mining in Eswatini The Lion Cavern at Ngwenya, Eswatini, holds groundbreaking evidence 1 of humanity's earliest intensive ochre mining practices, dating back 48,000 years. This remarkable find suggests not only a profound commitment to artistic and symbolic expression but also the beginnings of human impact on the environment.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

THE OTHER ABE AND HIS SON MORDECAI History lies just down the road. The turnpike of rolling time that runs right through your own lifeline. The one right there in front of your door. In my case, it is Shelbyville Road, originally cut by Squire Boone [Daniel’s brother] in the late 1700s. An escape route from his stockade on Clear Creek to the settlement stations at the Falls of the Ohio River that would later become Louisville.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

"To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world – and at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.” Marshall Berman The next session I went to at Practical Pedagogies was by Matt Podbury : a colleague of the organiser Russel Tarr at the International School of Toulouse.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Creating Student Buy-In with Studies Weekly | Teacher Testimonial Nov 07, 2024 Video Transcript Speaker : Mechelle C., 4th Grade Teacher, KS Tell us why you love Studies Weekly! Mechelle C.: My team and I love the Studies Weekly resource because it’s current informational text. We were using outdated curriculum, so piecing together components that would make it more current was also an endeavor.

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Strange Maps

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Historically, things don’t end well when German Chancellors start drawing lines on maps. Could the Brandt Line be the exception that proves the rule? To be fair, Willy Brandt was no longer Chancellor of West Germany (as he had been from 1969 to 1974) when he drew this line. In 1980, a commission chaired by Brandt published a report on international development that introduced the Global North and the Global South as meaningful concepts in public discourse.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

It's a few years now since the UK's involvement with ERASMUS+ was ended by Brexit. One of my last projects was the D3: Developing Digital Data Literacy project. The design of this website is one of the best of any that I participated in, and I had a lot to do with the contents as well, including some lesson blueprints and the final Module 4 which explore how the 15 minute city might It's well worth a look.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Nick Drake committed suicide fifty years ago this year. Mackenzie Crook has released a picture book which is called 'If Nick Drake came to my house'. In a couple of weeks' time I am going to the Cambridge Union to hear him speak about it. I'm looking forward to it very much. Mackenzie was on the One Show a few days ago talking about the book and his love of Nick Drake's music.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentor Award is presented annually by the APSA Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession to recognize the exemplary mentoring of Latino y Latina students and junior faculty each year. The award is named in honor of Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell, the first Latina to earn a PhD in political science. APSA was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Dr.

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