World History Teachers Blog
JANUARY 16, 2025
This MIT site " Visualizing Cultures ," is a great resource for World History and AP World when studying imperialism. The site includes outstanding visual narratives on which curriculum units are based. Most of the curriculum units ask students to analyze various images. Some of the units include the rise and fall of the Canton Trade System and the First Opium War.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 16, 2025
When someone disappears without a trace, what remains are their possessions objects that become anchors for memory and vessels for unresolved grief. The human urge to collect and preserve objects, what Jacques Derrida calls archive fever , takeson special significance when there is no body to bury, no grave to visit. This ethnography explores one such case of preservation: my grandmother’s decades-long stewardship of my grandfather’s wardrobe after his disappearance in the 1974 con
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ED Surge
JANUARY 16, 2025
I was recently sitting with my friends 9-year-old son, Guillermo, as he teed up a YouTube video on the TV. Id wanted to get a kids perspective on brain rot, Oxford University Press 2024 word of the year that describes both low-quality video content and what seemingly happens to the mind after watching too much of it. Naturally, I sought out someone with on-the-ground experience.
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 16, 2025
In a quiet corner of Dorset, a burial site has rewritten what we know about Iron Age Britain. By sequencing DNA from 50 individuals interred over centuries, researchers discovered 1 a striking social structure: women, not men, were at the heart of these communities. Excavating a Late Iron Age Durotriges burial at Winterborne Kingston. Credit: Miles Russell/Bournemouth University A study led by Dr.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 16, 2025
Gabriela, an 81-year-old-woman, showed some resistance in the dimly lit room of the dilapidated long-term care facility. Amidst peeling walls, and an air saturated with neglect, nurse Luz struggled to pin Gabrielas arms to the bed rail, trying to restrain her movements so she could administer her medications without interruption. With inadequate resources and no affordable harnesses available, Luz resorted to using cloth rags.
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 16, 2025
Nearly 5,000 years ago, an island community in what is now Denmark faced a darkened sky and dwindling harvests. Archaeologists believe they turned to an extraordinary ritual 1 , burying hundreds of engraved stones adorned with sun and plant motifs as an offering to restore balance. Recent findings from Bornholm, a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, suggest these decorated stones—known as "sun stones"—may have been linked to a massive volcanic eruption.
Political Science Now
JANUARY 16, 2025
Can Autocracy Handle Climate Change? By Shiran Victoria Shen , Stanford University Existing literature on climate politics predominantly concentrates on democracies. However, there is a pressing need to examine how authoritarian regimes respond to climate change, given their growing impact on global carbon emissions and their populations acute climate vulnerability.
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Society for Classical Studies
JANUARY 16, 2025
From President Kirk Ormand: The Future of the Annual Meeting kskordal Thu, 01/16/2025 - 08:43 Image Dear Colleagues, As I write this, the fires in southern California are still raging, and largely uncontrolled. Many thousands have lost their homes and their livelihoods in what will be a defining natural disaster for 2025. Among them are surely large numbers of our colleagues, friends, and students.
Maitri Learning
JANUARY 16, 2025
Teachers often ask me what level elementary teachers expect their first year students to arrive with. In many schools, the elementary teachers are hoping for solid phonetic readers. But from there, their materials often jump straight into sentence (or multi-sentence) level reading. That can be a bit of a stretch for the young child. If you find yourself in that situation, here are some things that might help.
Living Geography
JANUARY 16, 2025
The true cost of AI will reveal itself in the coming years, but we are already aware of the energy cost required to produce pointless outputs in response to pointless questions. I am currently writing some resources for a MOOC on how AI should be used ethically. If a school has a curriculum which is based around notions of sustainability , should there be a policy about the use of AI when each query has an energy cost?
Life and Landscapes
JANUARY 16, 2025
LUCY, ABE’S OTHER GRANDMOTHER The one you don’t want to talk about. The mother of Nancy Hanks, who was the mother of Abraham Lincoln [our Abe, not his Revolutionary War grandfather]. The one our Abe was concerned about. Worried that his mother had been born out of wedlock and brought here by her mother, Lucy, to escape the moral condemnation in Virginia, only to find it again here in Kentucky.
Living Geography
JANUARY 16, 2025
I've been involved in geographical curriculum making for many years, and continue to be involved in it. Thanks to Rob Chambers for the lead to this free book from Springer. It is not geography specific, but there are some useful general sections and thoughts on curriculum - something I'm always interested in reading about. A knowledge-rich curriculum is proposed by the authors as not only the soundest way forward to both effectively acquire knowledge and complex cognitive skills in school, but a
Political Science Now
JANUARY 16, 2025
Deadline: February 1, 2025. As the pace of global migration accelerates, immigration has become a significant issue in electoral politics in almost every corner of the world. Debates on immigration have taken center stage in campaigns and elections, and the pace of xenophobic attacks on immigrant communities has accelerated, with politicians wielding (often false) claims about immigrants to wage and win electoral campaigns.
Living Geography
JANUARY 16, 2025
The RGS has a Subject Knowledge Programme aimed particularly at Early Career Teachers who may be uncertain about particular curriculum areas because they didn't cover it as part of their degree, or perhaps were never really happy with it when at school. Some topics also demand a little more in depth knowledge of processes in order to be happy with teaching it - particularly for the first time of teaching it.
O-Level Geography
JANUARY 16, 2025
Why is there a high probability of a mega quake in Japan? What other hazards are associated with the occurrence of an earthquake? What can be done to mitigate the impacts of earthquakes?
Political Science Now
JANUARY 16, 2025
Claudette Alexandra Medina is a current MA student in political science at the University of Central Florida. Her research focuses on American politics regarding race, ethnicity, class, gender, and feminist theory. Currently, she is examining fascist feminism within the United States. Ms. Medina obtained her BA in political science at the University of Central Florida.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 16, 2025
Pseudonyms have been issued for ethnographic interlocutors, monkeys, and locations. In Polyphony, an urban neighborhood in Penang, Malaysia, a woman emerges from her house carrying a long bamboo stick. Above her, a group of free-ranging dusky langur monkeys perch on her roof. Instead of angrily confronting them or calling the authorities, she gently taps the roof and shakes a nearby mango tree, causing the monkeys to descend and move away.
Diane Ravitch
JANUARY 16, 2025
Trump has suggested that Canada, a huge and sovereign nation, should become the 51st state of the U.S. Elizabeth Evans May, a member of the Green Party in the Canadian Parliament, suggested instead that California, Oregon, and Washington State should become provinces of Canada. Ben Meiselas of the Meidas Touch blog posted this video. Because Trump suggested that Wayne Gretzky should be elected Prime minister of Canada, She felt compelled to explain to Trump how the Canadian system differs from t
Anthropology News
JANUARY 16, 2025
Peter sits on a chaise lounge with a clear vessel full of a shake hes about to drink. He holds it up to show its brownish-red color and thick consistency, plugs his nose, and drinks the shake, emptying the vessel. From offscreen, the viewer can hear the cameraperson, presumably Peters girlfriend-donor, say Wow. By reading the comments on the videoposted to a gastrointestinal disorder support group on Facebookone learns that Peters shake is made of his healthy girlfriends feces, distilled water,
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