TeachThought

AUGUST 17, 2024

Education has gone beyond acquiring knowledge to acquiring skills using EdTech tools; students learn digital literacy, teamwork, and critical thinking skills. Using technology in learning also enhances the student’s ability to appreciate and ponder on issues in a previously deemed impossible manner. Thus, tech serves as an additional tool for navigation, similar to how tutors and experts at a professional coursework writing service assist with developing writing skills.

EdTech 290

EdTech Tutoring Critical Thinking Teaching 290

Moler's Musing

AUGUST 17, 2024

This week marked the start of a new chapter in my teaching career. I’ve transitioned to Batavia Middle School, where I’m now teaching 8th grade social studies in room 234. While the subject remains the same, I’m facing new procedures, new students, and a new textbook. Thursday and Friday – Frayers, 3xCER Adapting to Change At my previous school, we used TCI History Alive, but now I’m working with McGraw Hill’s Voices of the Past.

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Social Studies Middle School History Teaching 120

Anthropology.net

AUGUST 17, 2024

One of the enduring mysteries of Stonehenge, the iconic prehistoric monument in southern England, has been the origin of its stones. While researchers have traced the upright sarsen stones to the nearby Marlborough Downs and the smaller bluestones to southwest Wales, the Altar Stone—a massive 16-foot-long, six-ton slab of sandstone at the heart of the structure—remained an outlier.

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Heritage Humanities History Cultures 52

Living Geography

AUGUST 17, 2024

Another important read over on The Conversation , which is a website that everyone should keep an eye on. If you search for this term on the blog you will see a whole range of useful articles. What's interesting is that the title of this piece changed. When I first saw it, the word probably or maybe - or something similar - was in the title of the post.

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