TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

What Is The Most Dangerous Phrase In Education? by Terry Heick I was speaking (tweeting) with Mark Barnes tonight, and he mentioned the idea of challenging existing forms and practices. And then someone tweeted the above image–a quote attributed to Rear Admiral Grace Hopper , according to the image source globalnerdy.com– and I was happy and favorited and saved and blogged. “We’ve always done it this way” implies legacy and tradition, which can be good.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In August, Australia’s environment minister Tanya Plibersek approved the construction of the Australia-Asia Power Link. The $30-billion project, AAPowerLink for short, has the scale and ambition to redraw the world’s sustainable energy map. Three stand-out superlatives Several superlatives stand out about the project: AAPowerLink will build the world’s largest solar farm on the remote inland of Australia’s Northern Territory.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The post Celebrating Teachers as Co-Designers: A Look at Their Journey appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Education Week - Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Get-out-the-vote activities can offer students a powerful lesson in democracy.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Digital Promise’s new report shares findings from nearly 200 responses to a Request for Information to understand the current and upcoming landscape of AI in education.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

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O-Level Geography

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

What cause the train disruption? Who are affected by the train disruption? How does this show the importance of nodes and links?

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Confronting Core Issues: A Critical Assessment of Attitude Polarization Using Tailored Experiments By Yamil Ricardo Velez , Columbia University , and Patrick Liu , Columbia University A long-standing debate in political psychology considers whether individuals update their beliefs and attitudes in the direction of evidence or grow more confident in their convictions when confronted with counter-attitudinal arguments.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Join APSA and Russell Sage for a professional development webinar exploring best practices for winning research funding. Tuesday, October 8, 2024 | 2 pm Eastern | Register Here Seeking research funding is an increasingly competitive process and preparing a successful application can be a challenging and time-consuming exercise. This webinar will provide a practical overview of applying for research grants from the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A recent study 1 at the Panoría megalithic necropolis in Granada, Spain, has unveiled a surprising gender bias in burials. The research, conducted by teams from the University of Tübingen and the University of Granada, shows that twice as many women as men were buried in the necropolis, with this imbalance becoming even more pronounced in juvenile remains, revealing a ten-to-one female-to-male ratio.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Cong Lu has long been fascinated by how to use technology to make his job as a research scientist more efficient. But his latest project takes the idea to an extreme. Lu, who is a postdoctoral research and teaching fellow at the University of British Columbia, is part of a team building an “AI Scientist” with the ambitious goal of creating an AI-powered system that can autonomously do every step of the scientific method.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

An anthropologist who works with deaf communities in the Arabic-speaking Middle East argues that ending Israel’s war on Gaza and occupation of Palestine is a matter of disability justice. ✽ On March 6, 2024 , I woke up to the horrific news that the Israeli military had bombed the building of the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children (ASDC) in Gaza City, part of the ongoing war on Gaza that began last October.

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