World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Should we throw out everything we’ve learned about the Silk Roads? The writer William Dalrymple thinks that we should in this fascinating essay for the Guardian titled "T he Silk Road still casts a spell, but was the ancient trading route just a Western invention? " He notes that the term “silk road” was a Western invention popularized by a Prussian geographer in 1877 and did not appear in English until 1938.

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Teaching 130

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Hello! I’m traveling back from the Bright Start International Conference where I spent the last few days learning about early childhood policies, systems and best practices worldwide. This week’s newsletter comes to you from Caroline Preston, Hechinger’s managing editor, who writes our climate and education newsletter. You can sign up for the newsletter here.

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Lesson Plan Elementary School Humanities Teaching 119

Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Social behavior has played a transformative role in the evolution of various species, including humans. A recent study 1 highlights a key advantage of social living: longer lifespans for individuals in highly social species. However, sociality comes with its own challenges, creating pressures that have shaped the cognitive and behavioral complexity of animals over millennia.

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Humanities Research 86

Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Adapting to the AI Era: ChatGPT in the Classroom By Jennifer Spindel , University of New Hampshire , and James Ackerman , The George Washington University The rise of ChatGPT has raised profound questions about its impact on the traditional university experience. This article addresses the discourse surrounding ChatGPT by investigating the actual capabilities of AI writing at the undergraduate level.

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Political Science Tradition Teaching Education 45

Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

When we think about human evolution, it’s easy to focus on the biological milestones—tools, fire, and the emergence of Homo sapiens. But what if the story of our ancestors’ journey across the globe was written just as much by the environment? A recent study, "Mid-Pleistocene Aridity and Landscape Shifts Promoted Palearctic Hominin Dispersals 1 ," explores how sweeping climate changes during the Mid-Pleistocene era (about 1.25–0.7 million years ago) sculpted the landscapes

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Humanities Archaeology History Research 93

Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

CFP: Mens Mutata: Altered Minds in Antiquity kskordal Wed, 11/27/2024 - 08:13 Image Call for Papers - Mens Mutata: Altered Minds in Antiquity (March 29, 2025) | Boston University Graduate Student Conference Ancient societies considered altered states of mind as a bridge between the human and the divine, an avenue for healing, or a means of personal transformation.

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Cultures Humanities 52

Living Geography

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Another Wednesday means it's time for another Worldly Wednesday. Today was a trip to Cambridge. A wet one too. The OCR Consultative Forum is held twice a year, and is a chance to get together with people who are connected with OCR in some way, the GA and RGS are always represented, as are schools and MATs such as Harris, along with publishers who are working on OCR-related publications and resources.

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Research 52