ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

When Jacob, a 10th grader with vision impairment, signed up for an AP class, it made him feel like a castaway. His ambitions to learn were thwarted because his teacher had assigned handouts and a three-week-long lesson plan that relied on a website that wasn’t easy for him to navigate. So he felt frustrated, isolated: “I am stranded on this desert island because that site doesn't work [with my screen reader],” Jacob later told a researcher , also adding, “You can't just re-change your whole teac

EdTech 143

EdTech K-12 Government Social Justice 143

History Tech

JULY 19, 2024

The Stanford History Education Group has been around since 2002. Sam Wineburg, SHEG’s founder, one year earlier had published a book titled Thinking Historically and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past. Both the book and SHEG outlined a social studies instructional concept, that at the time, was pretty revolutionary.

Social Studies 140

Social Studies History Education History Primary Sources 140

ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

SkillRise , an ISTE initiative, examined job seekers’ perceptions of digital skills and skills-based technologies, focusing on their potential career impacts, from initial hiring to advancement. The findings from this 2024 research confirmed job seekers’ need for digital skills training and increased awareness about how skills-based tools can be used to thrive in school and at work.

Educational Technology 105

Educational Technology Research Education Teaching 105

Becoming a History Teacher

JULY 19, 2024

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com The Initial Teacher Training (ITT) landscape should be driven by market forces like every other employment market. This is an argument we hear time and time again. There is a shortage of physics, maths, geography teachers (add or delete as appropriate) therefore we need to recognise the market forces at work that draw them away from choosing teaching as a career.

Geography 85

Geography History Teaching Tradition 85

Living Geography

JULY 19, 2024

From September, I am going to be reducing my teaching down to just four days a week and reducing my teaching commitments a little, to ease pressure, and free up time for some other varied consultancy work alongside my existing commitments. A day less on the commute will also be welcome. I want to stay in the classroom for a long as possible, but fitted around the desire to also have time to travel and involve myself in a wide range of additional experiences while I can - my recent involvement wi

Geography 75

Geography Library History Teaching 75

APSA Educate

JULY 19, 2024

Application Deadline: August 18, 2024 The American Political Science Association (APSA) and The National Capital Area Political Science Association (NCAPSA) are pleased to announce a call for proposals for political scientists and practitioners to participate in a single-day workshop on … The post Call for Proposals: Connecting Community and Classroom: Practical Considerations for Civically-Engaged Practitioners and Scholars appeared first on APSA.

Civic Engagement 52

Civic Engagement Civics Political Science Teaching 52

Anthropology.net

JULY 19, 2024

Researchers have discovered 1 a 4,000-year-old piece of fabric dyed with a rare and luxurious red dye in the Cave of the Skulls in the Judean Desert. This remarkable find, dating to the Middle Bronze Age between 1,954 and 1,767 BC, provides valuable insight into the ancient use of natural dyes and the technological capabilities of early civilizations.

Archaeology 52

Archaeology Artifacts Cultures Economics 52