Pedagogy to Share

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Last night, I had the pleasure of hosting a prize-winning American author, Joan Leegent , at my end-of-semester meeting for faculty. We are grateful to the US Embassy in Tel Aviv for bringing Joan to the country and funding her work with our lecturers and students. What an exciting way to conclude one of our most challenging semesters. We met on Zoom to be inspired by Joan and to process our thoughts, emotions and memories in writing.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Since the earliest days of colleges experimenting with teaching over the internet, the goal has been to replicate as closely as possible the physical classroom experience. After all, in-person was seen as the gold standard, and the question was whether that could be faithfully reproduced online. But since the COVID-19 pandemic forced instructors around the world to try online education, something unexpected has happened: Professors have found that there are some online teaching methods that work

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. A wave of new laws across the country is attempting to transform how elementary school children learn to read. Most states have in recent years passed legislation aimed at aligning policies and practices with the “science of reading,” a term that has become associated with more phonics instruction but,

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ShortCutsTV

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

One of the more-interesting things about the use of Situational Action Theory (SAT) to explore the relationship between crime and social disadvantage is that it developed alongside Wikstrom’s Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that taking race into consideration in college admissions was unconstitutional, but the court left room for applicants to write about their race in admissions essays. College advisors have told us they’re encouraging applicants to discuss their communities and identities with universities. Now, we want to hear directly from recent college applicants: What did you want to share about yourself with admissions officers?

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Education Week - Social Studies

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The preferences of Black parents are rarely the focus in debates over Black history instruction. Here’s what these survey respondents had to say.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Does using WeChat qualify someone to be “Chinese”? “So, you are not like a real Chinese. I mean, you are just someone who has Chinese heritage, right?” This was what one of my interlocutors, Fangyi, said to me in the middle of our in-person interview after I told her that I do not use WeChat, except for research purposes, as none of my friends or families were on the app.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Scampi is not the most environmentally friendly of food products due to the high number of food miles involved in its production, and the nature of its production. It is a popular choice for a pub meal, or to keep frozen at home. However, most people don't know what Scampi is made from. The production of scampi involves catching large prawns / langoustines, whose tails then need to be shelled.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In a groundbreaking discovery 1 , archaeologists unearthed a 2,100-year-old bronze hand inscribed with a language possibly related to Basque, shedding light on ancient European linguistic roots. The amulet's inscription likely conveys the notion of "good fortune." Researchers believe it was crafted using Latin characters to inscribe a Vasconic language linked to contemporary Basque.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The Coal Authority has a GIS site where you can identify the locations of previous activity to mine for coal. This was a big part of my life growing up in South Yorkshire. My grandfather and other family members were coal miners and we knew there were coal seams running under our village and surrounding areas - I remember a house collapsing from subsidence once.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Contributions by Scholars of Color Interview Series: Highlights from Dr. Todd Shaw, University of South Carolina Dr. Todd C. Shaw speaks on rooting his work in the scholarship and mentoring of the founding generation of Black Political Science. He is the Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina.

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Life and Landscapes

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Original music from Reggie Van Stockum at the Shelby County Community Theater, Shelbyville, Kentucky, on November 18, 2017. With Reggie Van Stockum on guitar and vocals, Paul woods on jim bay, Sara Bonds on violin and Tom Hynes on saxophone.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

by Dr. Magdalena Karolak, Associate Professor, Zayed University In September 2023, faculty from Zayed University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of International Affairs and Social Sciences, participated in the second training workshop organized with the generous support of the American Political Science Association offered through the MENA Departmental Collaboration Initiative.

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