The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

Example of the talk meter shown to Cuemath tutors at the end of the tutoring session. Source: Figure 2 of Demszky et. al. “ Does Feedback on Talk Time Increase Student Engagement? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform.” Silence may be golden, but when it comes to learning with a tutor, talking is pure gold. It’s audible proof that a student is paying attention and not drifting off, research suggests.

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Tutoring Psychology Elementary School Research 129

ED Surge

JANUARY 15, 2024

Definitions of Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI The Executive Order defines AI as: “a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations or decisions influencing real or virtual environments.” And Generative AI as: “The term generative AI means the class of AI models that emulate the structure and characteristics of input data in order to generate derived synthetic content.

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Humanities K-12 Teaching Education 119

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Contents Action Plan Overview | Action Plan Step-by-Step Guide Media Guide | Posters and Graphics Messages for Signs, Social Media, and Chants | Record a Statement Coordinators and Co-Sponsors | Workshops and More Events It’s time to take action. again. For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth.

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Teaching Historic Sites Archiving Museum 52

Living Geography

JANUARY 15, 2024

An excellent piece in The Guardian on the roots of the climate breakdown and the links with our own behaviours. It's fairly obvious, but this spells it out. You can download the original paper as a PDF.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 15, 2024

A Case for Description By Carolyn E. Holmes , University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Meg K. Guliford , Drexel University , Mary Anne S. Mendoza-Davé, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and Michelle Jurkovich , University of Massachusetts, Boston Descriptive research—work aimed at answering “who,” “what,” “when,” “where,” and “how” questions—is vital at every stage of social scientific inquiry.

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Political Science Research 47

Living Geography

JANUARY 15, 2024

Haiku is a form of verse which was developed in Japan. There are several versions of it. The early writers, particularly Basho, focussed on moments of stillness and capturing the essence of a moment in time, in a particular place. Many of them focussed on micro-seasons - subdivisions of the usual four seasons which were often marked by the flowering of a particular plant, or a particular weather pattern or some other small detail which tended to happen within a particular period of the year.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 15, 2024

Turner syndrome, a genetic condition marked by the absence of one X chromosome, has been identified in a prehistoric individual dating back 2,500 years, pioneering a breakthrough in the study of ancient genetic diversity. Published in Communications Biology 1 , the research, led by co-authors Kakia Anastasiadou and Rick Schulting, utilized a novel computational method to analyze sex chromosomes, revealing unique genetic configurations in several individuals from different historical periods.

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