TeachThought
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
by TeachThought Staff In a world filled with noise, division, and endless demands on our attention, Wendell Berry’s poem The Peace of Wild Things offers a rare invitation: to step back and find solace in nature. ‘The Peace Of Wild Things,’ read slowly enough, can remind us of the deep, quiet refuge that exists in the natural world, beyond the reach of our everyday stress and anxieties.
Passion for Social Studies
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Are you always searching for ways to make your lessons more engaging? Similarly, are you constantly trying to get students to be active in the thinking process? Honestly, both of these questions make teaching overwhelming! Teachers want students to enjoy school and be the ones thinking, but there is a lot to get through! There are so many standards and not enough time to teach everything.
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Digital Promise
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Through Socratic Circles, students are able to explore and experience how conflict creates space for their identities, interests, and perspectives.
Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Discovering Prehistoric Circles on Dartmoor Two newly identified Neolithic stone circles on Dartmoor, Devon, offer compelling evidence of a “sacred arc” of ceremonial monuments built in the region's rugged uplands. These discoveries, spearheaded by archaeologist and stained glass artist Alan Endacott, enrich the understanding of Dartmoor’s prehistoric significance and its parallels with renowned megalithic sites like Stonehenge.
Education Elements
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Change is a constant in public education. These changes range from shifts in student demographics, and associated learning needs, shifts in curriculum standards (think Common Core ), to broader shifts in public policy. Consider how Ly n don B. Johnson’s War on Poverty influenced how schools planned for meeting students’ nutritional needs , or the federal IDEA A ct , which requir ed public school systems to provide free and equitable education.
Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Neanderthal Discovery in Arbreda Cave In the Arbreda de Serinyà cave near Banyoles, Catalonia, archaeologists uncovered six Neanderthal teeth, some dating back over 120,000 years. This discovery offers a rare glimpse into the lives of Homo neanderthalensis across distinct periods, enriching our understanding of their evolutionary journey and interactions with their environment.
Living Geography
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Booking is now open for the annual Geography Teacher Educators' Conference. After an excellent event at last year's York venue, this year it is being hosted by St. Mary's University in Twickenham in South London. It is organised with the support of the GA but is independent from the GA. The GTE Conference is being held at St Mary's University, Twickenham from the afternoon of Friday 24th - Sunday 26th Jan at lunchtime.
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Political Science Now
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
As part of an ongoing series examining Contributions of Scholars of Color , the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a a second set of oral history interviews during the 2024 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting held in Los Angeles, California. This collection of interviews contributes to a continuous project that seeks to amplify the scholarship and the contributions of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to the profession and investigate t
Institute for Citizens & Scholars
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
The post C&S Fellow Champions Scholarship and Civic Engagement appeared first on Institute for Citizens & Scholars.
Political Science Now
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
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 Lucas G. Pinheiro, “Protocols of Production: The Absent Factories of Digital Capitalism.” As far as the internet is concerned, the age of the factory is—on most accounts—over.
Moler's Musing
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
This week, we wrapped up the Revolutionary War and began transitioning into the formation of a new nation. From major battles to the Treaty of Paris, and the contributions of marginalized groups to the local impact of Revolutionary War veterans, the focus was on tying big ideas to personal connections. EduProtocols were front and center, with Sketch and Tell-O taking the lead as students visualized key concepts across the unit.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
When GPT-3 burst on the education scene, it caused a flood of reactions, ranging from gleeful to apocalyptic. But more than that, it unlocked money. In 2023, generative AI claimed businesses in the U.S. and Canada claimed almost 45 percent of all private equity-backed investments, by one estimate, with an eye-popping value of $2.18 billion when much of the rest of the deals in that world were declining.
Geogramblings
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Below is a cleaned and edited transcripted of the video above. If you opt for reading the below rather than watching/listening, I’d appreciate it if you could still head over to the YouTube video and give it a like and post any comments you might have there. Everything I’m about to say may include some hot takes, but I have tried to think about them deeply.
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