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The Most Dangerous Phrase In Education

TeachThought

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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World’s largest solar project will send Australian energy to Singapore

Strange Maps

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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New Report Shares AI-Powered Innovations in Mathematics Teaching & Learning

Digital Promise

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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Worldly Wednesday #4: 25.10.24 - Gloucester Geog Webinar

Living Geography

Another Wednesday came around yesterday, and it was time for another Worldly Wednesday. This week, the main event was a talk I was going to give to the GA Gloucester branch. I spent the morning writing answers to a questions in a textbook I'm writing and preparing two chapters for review. In the afternoon I joined Emma Espley who had organised an event for the GA Gloucester Branch.

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Celebrating Teachers as Co-Designers: A Look at Their Journey

Digital Promise

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

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How to Host a Voter Drive in Your Classroom (and Why You Should) (Opinion)

Education Week - Social Studies

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

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Train disruption in Singapore Sept 2024

O-Level Geography

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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Important GA Conference news - change of date

Living Geography

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Confronting Core Issues: A Critical Assessment of Attitude Polarization Using Tailored Experiments

Political Science Now

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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As you do.

Living Geography

Story here.

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A Gender Bias at Panoría: A 5,600-Year-Old Burial Mystery

Anthropology.net

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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Should AI Bots Do Science?

ED Surge

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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Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide

Sapiens

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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