HistoryRewriter

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Adam Moler and I had a ball presenting together during the Catalina Lesson Design Mixer last week. Adam truly excels at simplifying pedagogy and combines it with an instinctive gift for self-reflection at a depth that I am incapable of. Working with him has helped me grow as a teacher in soooo many ways. Our friendship provides a clear example of how EduProtocols gives teachers a common language to discuss instructional practices and helps us focus on identifying instructional misconceptions tog

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

If you live in Arizona, school choice may be coming to your neighborhood soon. As someone who has had more school choice than I know what to do with, I can tell you what may feel like a shocking surprise: Private schools have the power to choose, not parents. I live inPhoenix, where the nearby town of Paradise Valley is getting ready to offer the privatization movement’s brand of choice to families.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

When Chat GPT-4 came out, Cory Kohn was itching to bring it into the classroom. A biology laboratory coordinator in an integrated science department at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges, Kohn perceived the tool as useful. It promised to increase efficiency, he argued. But more than that, it would be important to teach his science students how to interact with the tool for their own careers, he first told EdSurge last April.

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K-12 EdTech Tutoring Humanities 109

Strange Maps

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Built inside a 27-kilometer (17-mile) circle-shaped tunnel near Geneva, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. But now CERN — the French acronym for the European Organization for Nuclear Research — wants a bigger one. The Future Circular Collider (FCC) would be three times as long as the LHC. Since 2008, the LHC has been smashing together subatomic particles at near-light speed.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The latest wave of AI tools like ChatGPT seem certain to disrupt the workplace in the years ahead — and the most-disrupted professions may be ones that require college degrees. That presents an unprecedented challenge for colleges already struggling to prove their value. A study published last year used a sophisticated analysis to try to determine which types of jobs are most at risk of major disruptions and shrinkages due to large-language AI models.

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Humanities Teaching Research Educational Technology 109

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In featuring three SAPIENS poems, students in a digital anthropology seminar infused video reels for Instagram with vivid history and powerful emotions. ✽ For a digital anthropology seminar at the University of Denver, I asked my students: “Why do the pressures of our lived realities demand a response through poetry?” That question launched an assignment in which they were asked to create short videos based on three poems published at SAPIENS.

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Anthropology Archiving History Humanities 82

Education Elements

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

During speeches in January, several state leaders kicked off the year with strong commitments of money and resources to improve literacy in their schools through the immediate implementation of evidence-based reading instruction, often referred to as the “science of reading.” The governors of New York and Massachusetts offered guidelines, not mandates, for school districts to focus on adopting reading instruction practices and materials that are evidence-based.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians Feb. 13, 2024 • By Studies Weekly History would not be the same without the inspiring lives of Black humanitarians. For Black History Month, we honor four heroes who advocated for civil rights, fought for the underserved, and spoke out for the welfare of others. Teaching students about these heroes can inspire them to be advocates in their communities and reach for their dreams. 1.

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Museum Social Studies Advocacy History 52

Living Geography

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

One of the features of GA Conference is the GEO Live event - which used to be called Future Geographers. It is aimed at students rather than teachers. Booking is now open for this year's event. As usual, it is coordinated by the Vice President as part of their duties, which means that it is Hina Robinson who has chosen this year's speakers and workshops.

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Geography Humanities Education 52

Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Application deadline March 5: NEH K-12 Summer Institute at Monmouth College kskordal Tue, 02/13/2024 - 13:31 Image Application deadline March 5: NEH K-12 Summer Institute at Monmouth College (IL): The Olympics and Daily Life in Ancient Olympia: A Hands-On History K-12 educators across disciplines, at all levels of experience (including early career), and from across the nation are invited to apply , BY MARCH 5 AT MIDNIGHT PACIFIC TIME, for a National Endowment for a Humanities Summer Institute f

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K-12 Social Studies Middle School Humanities 52

Living Geography

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

"We just have to go with the flow.” After centuries of peace, the Reykjanes peninsula has woken up with numerous earthquakes, ground inflation and several fissure eruptions - some lasting only a short time. Various management methods have been tried, but now the town of Grindavik has been evacuated. "How, then, is the country going to defend itself?

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Photograph of a downtown Ottawa street with trucks blocking traffic during the Freedom Convoy. At the front of the vehicles are placards protesting vaccine mandates, wishing freedom for children, and thanking the truckers. There are also Canadian flags and people, and in the background are traffic lights and buildings. Credit: Martin Alarie, Agence QMI, Journal de Montréal, 2022-02-13 A blocked downtown Ottawa street during the Freedom Convoy.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

PRESS RELEASE De Gruyter and American Political Science Association (APSA) Announces Partnership Agreement on New Political Science Professional Development Book Series WASHINGTON D.C. — FEBRUARY 13, 2024 De Gruyter and the American Political Science Association (APSA) are pleased to announce agreement on a cooperation partnership to publish two new book series: The De Gruyter-APSA Teaching Civic Engagement Series and The De Gruyter-APSA Political Science Professional Development Series.

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Passion for Social Studies

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

September 11th, 2011, can never be forgotten in history. It is a day that changed America and Americans instantly. However, high school students do not remember the day like teachers do due to their age. To ensure students understand the magnitude of this day, teachers must focus on teaching September 11th. With the 9/11 Lesson , students will be sure to understand the tragedy, heroism, and unity that occurred from this day.

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Teaching Lesson Plan History Social Studies 130

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Cayleb Bryant Stives graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) with a BA in communication studies and an MA in political science. His research interests include political communications, extrajudicial communications, and political psychology. His master’s thesis explored a novel concept he coined “judicial influencers” which characterizes the social media influencer-like behaviors exhibited by some state high court judges finding a positive relationship in the engagement of tweet

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Political Science Psychology Research Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

“Mom, are there any more Earths?” Angelique Hammack, a teacher in California, creates lesson plans about climate change for the website SubjectToClimate. She often starts from a question posed by one of her four children. Her 7-year-old, who has autism, has been really interested in space lately. “He was asking me questions about the solar system and about black holes, and I started pulling out all these books I had on outer space,” she said.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Project Title: Ascriptive Agents: Vietnamese Political Theories of Race, Gender, and the West Kevin Pham, University of Amsterdam Kevin D. Pham is an Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam. His work explores the history of nineteenth and twentieth century political thought, focusing on non-Western theories of democracy, colonialism, and freedom.

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Political Science History Research 52