Moler's Musing

APRIL 25, 2025

This week was about layering, connecting, and getting students to own the contentnot just memorize it. Every protocol, every sequence was designed to move students from basic retrieval to deeper understanding without overwhelming them. Nothing fancy. Nothing over the top. Just intentional teaching. Monday – Abolitionist Reformers Thick Slide Tuesday/Wednesday – Superlatives Thursday – Abolitionists/Women’s Suffrage Reading and AI Evaluation Friday – Reform Movements

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Political Science Now

APRIL 25, 2025

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Turkuler Isiksel and Thomas B. Pepinsky, “Voting in Authoritarian Elections.” Elections are often taken as a defining feature of democratic regimes.

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C3 Teachers

APRIL 25, 2025

Im thinking about a theory for using AI in history education. By theory, I mean what I expect to be true based on general ideas and principles, but something that has not been proven in practice. ( Of course, theory may be proven in practice at which point it becomes something more ). I decided to talk to my AI companion, CHAT GPT about this (a friend indeed) ( Im speaking here to ChatGPTo1 pro mode – edited ) I would like your assistance in developing some ideas (and principles) that may

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TCI

APRIL 25, 2025

Please accept statistics, marketing cookies to watch this video. For Spring 2025, were excited to introduce new features based on your feedback. These updates will help you teach key social studies skills, streamline assigning and grading, and improve administrative tasks. Sign in to your TCI teacher account to explore these features. Building Social Studies Skills New Economics Library: Economics concepts can be complex, but you can support student understanding of these concepts with the tools

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Moler's Musing

APRIL 25, 2025

When ChatGPT dropped in November 2022, I jumped in shortly after. I started playing with it, wrote my first post about using it in education by January 2023 ( here it is ). A few months later, I was presenting on AI locally and, eventually, across the countryshowing teachers how it could actually make their lives easier. Somewhere along the way, I became an AI consultant.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2025

The post Is Text Data? Taking on Data Literacy in English Class appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Living Geography

APRIL 25, 2025

Thanks to David Preece for the tipoff to this.

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Living Geography

APRIL 25, 2025

A cross posting from my dedicated Fieldnotes from Iceland blog. A new free resource shared by Discover the World Education. Details from DtW. Why do the Nordic countries consistently rank among the happiest and most developed in the world? In our brand new Happy Nordics resource, we bring these big questions into focus for KS3KS5 students. Using real-world data and global indiceslike the Human Development Index, the Gini Index, and the World Happiness Reportwe dive into the heart of what makes s

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Political Science Now

APRIL 25, 2025

Do the Effects of Unpopular Supreme Court Rulings Linger? The Dobbs Decision Rescinding Abortion Rights By James L. Gibson , Washington University in St. Louis. New evidence suggests that the world recently changed for the U.S. Supreme Court owing to its decision to abrogate the abortion rights first announced in Roe v. Wade. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that Court support is little undermined by unpopular rulings, the Dobbs decision generated a substantial knock on the Courts legitim

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Living Geography

APRIL 25, 2025

Thanks to Bob Lang for the tipoff to this visualisation tool which explores how people move in and out of cities. If you have the modal share distribution for any other city, or a new observation, please write us: prieto-curiel@csh.ac.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 25, 2025

Lessons on Race, the Supreme Court, and the Legacy of Franz Boas Credit: National Archives at San Francisco Hin Lun Jow, Certificate of Identity 43195, issued after he entered the U.S., 1922 (Required by law for Chinese under the Exclusion Act) (National Archives at San Francisco) One hundred years ago, in fall 1924, a Chinese immigrant in the Mississippi Delta launched the first of two court cases that sought admission for Chinese children into public schools reserved for white children.

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Living Geography

APRIL 25, 2025

Earth Percent is an organisation that I heard about over the weekend at a Q and A with the Breton musician Yann Tiersen. EarthPercent invites artists and the music industry at large to donate a small percentage of their income, making change through organisations that meaningfully address the climate and nature crises. Over 250 artists and companies have already pledged their support.

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