ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. Today, that sure seems quaint. Suddenly, new consumer AI tools have hit the market that can take any piece of text, audio or video and provide that same kind of simplified summary.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The post How A Student Team in Zimbabwe Aims to Improve Youth Employment appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

High in the Zeravshan Valley of Tajikistan, the Soii Havzak rock-shelter has provided researchers with an invaluable glimpse into early human migration routes and daily life in Central Asia. Discovered 1 only recently, this rock-shelter sits 40 meters above a tributary of the Zeravshan River, approximately 10 kilometers north of Panjakent. It contains layers of human occupation spanning the Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods, approximately 150,000 to 20,000 years ago.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

1935-2024 Anton Blok, 1935-2024 Dutch anthropologist Anton Blok died on June 24th, at the age of 89. He was one of the most prominent anthropologists in the Netherlands during the second half of the twentieth century. Anton Blok published several pioneering studies and numerous thought-provoking articles, many of which were focused on themes related to violence and its control.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

A great piece in a recent Sunday's Observer explored the work of Corinne Fowler and her new book where she takes a series of walks in the company of others and unpicks the colonial stories which have helped shape the present day landscape. Corinne was the author of a report exploring the National Trust's links with colonialism which was of course called 'woke', which I don't see as an insult - it's important to be awake to injustice.

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All Things Pedagogical

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Honestly there is so much that could be written about this week, and yet at the same time nothing at all, you know? So instead of focusing on what is and could be I want to write a bit of a shorter post this week and publish it early because I genuinely want to crowdsource what to do about a conference proposal situation I have discovered. So there is this education conference that I have always wanted to attend because to be honest they desperately need more conference papers on accessibility,

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 8, 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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