World History Teachers Blog
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Here is one of my favorite clips to show students when discussing revolutions. Max Fisher explains the origins of national identity in this excellent five-minute clip for the New York Times. He notes that the idea of a national identity is relatively new. Just before the French Revolution, for example, France was not really a nation. Half the people could not even speak French.
Sapiens
DECEMBER 3, 2024
A team of archaeologists working in Southeast Asia is pushing toward a deeper understanding of history that amplifies Indigenous and local perspectives to challenge traditional archaeological timelines. ✽ When you think of “prehistory,” what images come to mind? Dinosaurs roaming ancient landscapes? Saber-toothed tigers on the hunt? Humans huddled in caves.
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Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Deep within Cantabria, Spain, the Las Monedas cave offers a stunning glimpse into the lives of our Upper Paleolithic ancestors. While much of the art attributed to this era has been studied through the lens of adult craftsmanship, a recent study shifts the focus to children. By integrating insights from developmental psychology, researchers have identified playful and imaginative marks made by young artists, fundamentally rethinking prehistoric creativity.
Anthropology News
DECEMBER 3, 2024
1932–2024 Credit: David Plowden Photo of David Sapir in New Hampshire by David Plowden J. David Sapir, a cultural and linguistic anthropologist, West Africanist, and scholar of folklore and ethnographic photography, died August 31, 2024, at the age of 91. He was the son of Jean McClenaghan, a psychiatric social worker, and Edward Sapir. After his father’s death in 1939 when he was 6, the family moved to Greenwich Village, New York City, where he attended public school PS 81.
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 3, 2024
A groundbreaking study 1 suggests that the domestication of maize ( Zea mays ), a staple crop central to global agriculture, may have been completed in South America. Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) have identified semi-domesticated maize specimens from caves in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley, revealing a unique chapter in the crop’s evolutionary history.
Becoming a History Teacher
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Photo by Magda Ehlers on Pexels.com Jessie is starting to assume more responsibility for her classes. So far, she’s taught around 15 whole lessons, but hasn’t had to do any teaching completely independently. Her mentor, Jasdeep, has always been on hand to step in if behaviour started to creep out of control or Jessie was struggling with curriculum content.
Teaching American History
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Teaching American History is excited to announce the release of our latest core document volume, the second edition of Free Speech. Edited by Joseph Fornieri , this reader contains a collection of twenty-six landmark court cases, an introductory essay, case introductions, a thematic table of contents, study questions, glossary, and suggestions for further reading.
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Anthropology 365
DECEMBER 3, 2024
After five years of research and writing, I am pleased to announce that my first book is under contract with University of Texas Press. Peer reviews came back as positive with incredibly helpful feedback that will undoubtably enhance the text. I look forward to continuing writing and editing the manuscript with the reviewers’ suggestions in mind.
Political Science Now
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Call for 2024 APSA Election Reflections is open NOW through January 15th! APSA is issuing a call for submissions for a series titled, “Reflections on the 2024 U.S. Elections.” This continues APSA’s Diversity and Inclusion Programs Department prior work calling for submissions around the 2016, 2018, and 2020 election cycles. Election reflections are scholarly reflections, original research notes, and classroom exercises that shed light upon political behavior, public opinion and the 2024 campaig
Digital Promise
DECEMBER 3, 2024
The post Digital Promise Joins Forces with UNESCO to Advance Global Digital Transformation appeared first on Digital Promise.
Political Science Now
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Designing a Small Discussion Board Assignment Fit for an Age of Online Discussion By Justin Robertson , City University of Hong Kong In this model, discussion boards are kept to five sessions to maximize their impact. Three discussion boards are launched after the corresponding classes and two discussion boards are run beforehand. Students engage in different thinking processes: • conducting an interview • reading a key author’s work and applying their ideas • completing a simulation • undertaki
Strange Maps
DECEMBER 3, 2024
In the Baltics, the difference between East and West — between the past and the future — can be measured in millimeters: 85, to be exact. (Or, if you prefer, 3.35 inches.) That tiny distance is the difference between the track gauges of the old Soviet railways (1,520 mm, just under 5 ft), which are still used by all former republics of the USSR, and standard gauge (1,435 mm; 4.7 ft) used almost everywhere else in Europe.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 3, 2024
All year long, schools have been grappling with how to respond to student cellphone use, which, according to many educators, had become almost constant among kids in older grades and increasingly disruptive to instruction. What many schools have not tackled, over the same period, is the rise of smartwatches among younger kids. A few years ago, smartwatches — high-tech wearables that can send and receive calls and texts, take photos and videos, and share precise location-tracking data, among othe
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 3, 2024
The evolution of the human brain is one of the most remarkable chapters in our species' history. With its unparalleled size and complexity, the human brain consumes a disproportionate amount of energy relative to the rest of the body. Brain tissue, one of the most metabolically expensive types, requires a steady and substantial energy supply. While previous studies have explored the roles of diet, environmental pressures, and genetics in brain development, new research 1 highlights an intriguing
ED Surge
DECEMBER 3, 2024
The theme song of a podcast may only play for a few seconds at the beginning and ending of an episode, but the short clip sets the tone for the show. In searching for a theme song that fit, I spent hours clicking around on online music libraries including the Free Music Archive for songs with just the right mix of seriousness and playfulness to encapsulate our weekly interview show about the future of learning.
Anthropology News
DECEMBER 3, 2024
1952-2021 Credit: Linda Waterfield Ira Jacknis in his office at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology taken by colleague Linda Waterfield. Ira Jacknis passed away unexpectedly at his home in Oakland, California on September 29, 2021. Born and educated in New York City, he matriculated at Yale University in 1970, graduating in 1974 with a dual degree in art history and anthropology and a senior thesis on the Japanese tea ceremony.
Life and Landscapes
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Star Power at the next “New Reggie Van Stockum Show!” It is a Variety Show from 3-5 pm in the afternoon on Saturday, December 7, 2024. Come join us at Paulie Felice’s Studio 223 Performance Venue on 6th Street just down from the Coffeehouse in Shelbyville, Kentucky. The writer and humorist Don Ray Smith will be our headliner performing parts of his play, “Growing Up White on Wilson.” It is about his experience growing up in West Louisville.
Living Geography
DECEMBER 3, 2024
“We need nature education at the heart of school life so everyone has access to it, not just middle-class people who go to the countryside at the weekend and have big gardens. It’s the kids in very urban areas who I had in mind because the whole idea of the GCSE is to make natural history on your doorstep something you are fascinated by. We have such a crisis in the mental health of our young people and nature is known to be a very healing thing.
Steven V. Miller
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Scenes from a 'No' demonstration in Chile, 1988 (Luis Navarro Vega/Biblioteca Nacional de Chile) I want to have something on my blog for students in my advanced quantitative methods class to read to better acclimate themselves to the logistic regression model. This is a curious thing, given everything else on my blog. I use the logistic regression a lot in assorted R tutorials I publish, including how to read a regression table and how to do model simulation.
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