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8 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2024

Cult of Pedagogy

Icon from Freepik – Flaticon Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by WeVideo and The Modern Classrooms Project Well, it’s January! And that means it’s the time when I put out a new edition of my Teacher’s Guide to Tech. This is now the TENTH edition of the guide, and as always, because it keeps improving, I’m gonna say this is the best edition yet.

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COLUMN: Colleges must give communities a seat at the table alongside scientists if we want real environmental justice

The Hechinger Report

Pleasantville is a mostly Black and Hispanic community located between two major freeways, the I-10 and the 610, in Houston, Texas. This placement is no accident, said Bridgette Murray, a retired nurse and local community leader: “The highway plan in the 1950s was used to divide communities of color.” Today, an estimated 300,000 vehicles stream by on a daily basis, she said.

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What it Takes to Lead a School Where Students Love Themselves and Succeed Academically

ED Surge

As a 2022 fellow of The National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators, I attend an annual retreat designed to provide fellows and alumni with support and resources so we can all reach the common goal of becoming education leaders. The event provides leadership development skills, offers a psychologically safe space to process our experiences and nurtures the spirit of brotherhood and community needed to sustain our worth and our work.

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Exploring World History: Can a Skill-Based Curriculum Help?

Digital Promise

The post Exploring World History: Can a Skill-Based Curriculum Help? appeared first on Digital Promise.

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A New Narrative: How Inclusive Innovation Unlocks the Power of R&D to Transform Education

ED Surge

“Education is made for students. There is no one who knows what students need more than us.” — Angelica Martinez, 2023 Graduate, Sunnyside Unified School District (AZ) Historically, research institutions, education entrepreneurs and technology developers have led the research and development (R&D) of education programs and tools. The distance between the “consumers” (the learners and families) and the “creators” (the product developers) has been wide, contributing to an R&D process large

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Free Webinar: Help Students Learn from Mentor Authors

Heinemann Blog

The journey to becoming a better writing teacher begins with aligning principles to practice in your classroom. One foundational principle of teaching writing is to immerse students in studying mentor texts: studying what other, more experienced writers do. In this free edWebinar , Carl Anderson and Matt Glover show you what the immersion period of writing workshop looks and sounds like, along with four action steps you can take to implement it in your classroom.

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Women’s History Network Annual Conference: ‘Curating the Female Self’, September 2024

Women's History Network

First Call for Papers Women’s History Network Annual Conference Hosted with the Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender at Royal Holloway University, 5-6 September 2024 Curating the Female Self One of the exciting developments in women’s history over the last few years is the explosion of different approaches to agency, empowerment and […]

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Beyond Screens: The Benefits of Paper-Based Learning for Elementary Students

Studies Weekly

Beyond Screens: The Benefits of Paper-Based Learning for Elementary Students Jan. 10, 2024 • Studies Weekly In today’s digital age, technology integration in education helps prepare students for a world of screens. But this cannot be done at the expense of children’s literacy. When students need to read for understanding, comprehension, or retention, research shows that they perform better with print materials rather than a screen.

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Linear Model Diagnostics by IR Example

Steven V. Miller

Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which ran from 2001 to 2003, was tasked with investigating the human rights abuses committed in the country during its armed conflict with Sendero Luminoso. It may have further signaled to investors that Peru was serious about peace. I’m teaching a first-year MA-level quantitative methods course at the moment for which the current topic is linear model diagnostics.

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Storytelling and the Climate Emergency

Living Geography

If you don't already follow Oliver Jeffers on Instagram I recommend that you do. He has always shared thought provoking ideas and plenty of his wonderful art, but latterly he has been sharing news about the development of his latest book (which is not for children) It's called 'Begin Again'. It's well worth getting a copy of. With his bold, exquisite artwork, Oliver Jeffers starts at the dawn of humankind following people on their journey from then until now, and then offers the reader a challen

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The Cult of the Relevant: International Relations Scholars and Policy Engagement Beyond the Ivory Tower

Political Science Now

The Cult of the Relevant: International Relations Scholars and Policy Engagement Beyond the Ivory Tower By Cullen S. Hendrix , Peterson Institute for International Economics , Julia Macdonald , George Washington University , Ryan Powers , University of Georgia , Susan Peterson , and Michael J. Tierney , College of William and Mary Over the past fifteen years, a narrative has developed that IR scholars have become a “cult of the irrelevant,” with declining influence on and engagement with policy

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Naming of places

Living Geography

The places that we talk about and look at on maps have been given names at some point in history by a particular group of people. The origin of those names may be problematic depending on which name we use, when more than one may well have been applied to a place during the history of its human occupation, and the Anglicised version may be used on the maps that we tend to use in the UK, rather than those used on a map purchased in the country itself.

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Call for Proposals: AAAS Media Training Workshop (Virtual)

Political Science Now

The APSA Election Assistance and Policy Committee is partnering with the AAAS SciLine project to provide media training for scholars who study elections. SciLine’s media training is a day-long, virtual workshop designed to help scientists understand the ecosystem of U.S. journalism, introduce general science communication skills, and practice applying those skills in the context of interviews for print or broadcast media.

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Dalston

Living Geography

I spent a weekend in London a month or so ago, and had an airbnb near Kilburn High Street, which I ended up walking down at one point, pondering on the bus stops along there, and the people sat waiting in them, a la Doreen Massey. Kate Stockings uses this area as the basis for some fieldwork and has kindly shared some of the materials that she uses. ??️?

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Mississippi child care workers barely earn ‘survival wages’

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Mississippi child care workers are strained by low pay and lack of training — but an additional $5 an hour in salary would prompt around

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Six Inches of Soil

Living Geography

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History blog. Six Inches of Soil is a new film, which explores the value of this material, which many people undervalue - not understanding its critical importance. I studied pedology (soil science) in the final year of my undergraduate degree, spending quite a lot of time carrying out experiments and fieldwork, and know very well how important it is to look after it. ???????????

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Book Bans Threaten Public Education

Zinn Education Project

This graphic is available to download and print as an 11 x 17 poster. Credit: Zinn Education Project. Creative Common License to copy and distribute for noncommercial purposes. In 2024, not only are books being banned, but also the right to teach about racism and LGBTQ+ identity — essentially placing thousands more titles off limits. Official lists of banned books (including those in the poster above ) reveal only the tip of the iceberg.

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Civil Discourse and Advancing the Collective Good in Higher Education

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

We must move from an individualist towards a collectivist approach to learning to ensure our students graduate with the skillsets and experiences needed for a democratic citizenry.

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What Is “Natural” for Human Sexual Relationships?

Sapiens

A biological and anthropological researcher explains how humans’ diverse ways of mating might have evolved. ✽ Marrying more than one person constitutes a crime across most of the Americas and Europe. But in countries including Mali, Gambia, and Nigeria, more than a quarter of the population lives in polygamous households. Survey the sex lives of Homo sapiens , and you’ll find couples, throuples, harems, and other arrangements of lovers.