Fri.Jan 24, 2025

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The Week That Was In 234

Moler's Musing

This week in 8th-grade social studies, we brought history to life with engaging EduProtocols that helped students dive deep into the Early Republic and key moments like the Whiskey Rebellion. From Sketch and Tell-O activities that broke down complex ideas to Progressive Sketch and Tell timelines that visualized historical events, we kept creativity at the forefront.

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Call for Applications: APSA Diversity Fellowship Program- 1st and 2nd Year PhD Students

Political Science Now

2024-2025 Spring Fellows Deadline: March 9, 2025 Applications for the 2025-2026 APSA Diversity Fellowship Program-SpringCycle are nowopen! The springapplication cycle will provide $2000 awards to support first and second year students in political science PhD programs. Applications are due onMarch 9, 2025. Submit an online application now ! Completed applications will include a letter of enrollment verification, personal statement,resume, and two lettersof recommendation.

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How Digital Promise Leverages Emerging Technologies that Center Human Agency on International Day of Education

Digital Promise

The post How Digital Promise Leverages Emerging Technologies that Center Human Agency on International Day of Education appeared first on Digital Promise.

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GTE Conference 2025 - #1 of several

Living Geography

The GTE Conference is an event I have attended periodically since 2009: the first time I attended, which was when I joined the Geographical Association. GTE = Geography Teacher Educators. Until then I'd been unaware of it, and it was rare to see a teacher there. In the last few years, there have been a few more teachers attending, sometimes in their role as leads for a large MAT or organisation.

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Flipbook: Testing the Marshmallow Test

ShortCutsTV

For those who prefer their information in a more-colourful magazine-style format than bare-bones blog posts, Ive put the two recent Marshmallow Test posts together in an online flipbook format that adds to the growing collection Ive put together over the years.

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Developing a Critical Understanding of Environmental Activism through Active Learning

Political Science Now

Developing a Critical Understanding of Environmental Activism through Active Learning By Jeremy F. G. Moulton , University of York This article presents a short simulation active-learning exercise that can be used in political science undergraduate and postgraduate environmental politics courses to introduce and teach the subject of environmental activism.

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Food for thought. and thoughts about food

Living Geography

The actual BBC Sounds programmes are not available on iPlayer at the moment unfortunately, but this book is very good, and has influenced what we teach with Year 7. HOW THE WORLD EATS is a @bbcradio4 Food Programme Book of the Year The perfect Christmas gift for all the thoughtful foodies out there [link] pic.twitter.com/QzqaCkMHJK Granta Books (@GrantaBooks) November 27, 2024 I've just read the section on space food to go with my Orbital work with Year 6.

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Is Classroom Discussion a Dying Art?

ED Surge

One of Kevin Gannons favorite class discussion activities doesnt involve much talking. Inspired by complete-the-story games in which players each write a line of a tale that builds off a previous persons idea, Gannon, director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, uses a similar concept to facilitate silent discussions.