Fri.Aug 16, 2024

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Class Companion: Instant AI Coaching and Feedback

Catlin Tucker

Feedback is critical for helping students enhance their conceptual knowledge and skills. Despite its value, with the time constraints and the large number of students in classrooms, providing focused, actionable, and timely feedback often feels unattainable. Feedback is an essential yet time-intensive task that artificial intelligence (AI) can effectively scale, ensuring every student receives the targeted support they need to confidently apply their learning.

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Neanderthal Behavior Revealed: Surprising Insights from Pyrenees Foothills

Anthropology.net

An extraordinary archaeological site 1 located at the foothills of the Southern Pyrenees in Spain is shedding light on a little-known period of Neanderthal history. Known as Abric Pizarro, this site has yielded significant data that challenges long-held views of Neanderthal life. The findings reveal a highly adaptive and resourceful group of early humans who thrived in a challenging environment for thousands of years.

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Guide to Applying for Higher Education Fellowships

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

Explore our expert guide on applying for higher education fellowships. Gain insights and strategies to strengthen your application.

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Learn More About: Racialized and Gendered Relief: How Working Women Experienced Pandemic Policies

Political Science Now

Project Title: Racialized and Gendered Relief: How Working Women Experienced Pandemic Policies Margaret Brower Margaret Perez Brower is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. Her work focuses on how intersectionality is a critical framework for understanding U.S. institutions, higher education, political behaviors, and social movements.

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Of Milestones and Space

All Things Pedagogical

I am writing this on a train stalled in the middle of eastern Ontario because there is some sort of fire on the tracks. This is a perfect example of the kinds of "find time for writing" that I have done throughout my time in academe. I had set up time to write this blog now because I knew that I would not have time to do it other wise this weekend, but this train car is also old and with a crappy seating set up which means I don't have the space that I usually need or appreciate to write.

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Short Course: The Job Talk as Storytelling

Political Science Now

The Job Talk as Storytelling Full Day Short Course 9:00am – 5:00pm What is a job talk? Simple, it is an oral presentation that displays your research. The problem is that you have spent all your time thinking and expressing your research in a medium other than the oral form of communication. Although the underlying ideas you wish to convey are largely the same, the medium in which you are now asked to express them is profoundly different.

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Lael Keiser Receives the 2024 John Gaus Award

Political Science Now

The John Gaus Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor a lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration. Lael Keiser will deliver the Gaus Lecture on Friday, September 6, 2024 at 6:30pm EDT as part of the APSA Annual Meeting. Citation from the Award Committee: Professor Keiser has made an extraordinary impact on the study of policy implementation and the administration of public programs