Sat.Feb 01, 2025

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Why People Play Video Games

TeachThought

Gamers often throw around "escapism when talking about their hobby, but this is a hollow explanation for what motivates us to play games.

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Lucy on the Run: Reconstructing the Sprinting Capabilities of Our Ancient Ancestors

Anthropology.net

The Running Ape? A New Look at Lucy’s Locomotion For decades, Australopithecus afarensis has been at the heart of debates surrounding the origins of human bipedalism. Fossilized footprints from Laetoli and skeletal remains like Lucy’s have provided compelling evidence that our ancestors walked upright as early as 3.7 million years ago. But walking is one thing—what about running?

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Cooper Education - CPD for exam support

Living Geography

James Peverill got in touch to let me know about some upcoming events organised by Cooper Education. This is a newish CPD offering - catering for those who want help with specific GCSE and A level exam specifications - and includes some very well known speakers including Cameron Dunn, Paul Logue, Kate Stockings and Catherine Owen. If you go to the website and scroll down you will see that they offer a range of CPD sessions - held as webinars - supporting different qualifications.

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The Week That Was In 234

Moler's Musing

Last week was all about layering EduProtocols to tackle complex historical topics in engaging, meaningful ways. From political parties to the War of 1812 , we used Thin Slides, Archetype Four Square, Frayer Models, Progressive Sketch and Tell, Map and Tell, and Class Companion to help students synthesize, visualize, and apply their knowledge. Instead of passively reading from the textbook, students were analyzing, predicting, debating, sketching, and writing , making these historical moments sti

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SDG Report 2024

Living Geography

I was looking at the SDG Dashboard site as I was creating a new resource.

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New psychology curriculum guide out on Tuesday

Psychology Sorted

The new psychology curriculum guide will be published on MyIB on Tuesday 4th February. It is for teaching from August/September 2025, and there are a lot of changes to the approach to learning, though not so many to the content. You will be glad to learn, however, that the rote learning of studies is very much reduced as the focus shifts to understanding and making curriculum links through the six main concepts.

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A Short History of America

Living Geography

This famous comic by Robert Crumb shows the way that American landscape has been transformed over the decades, This YouTube version has music by Joni Mitchell. Don't Google some of his other work while at work however.

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Thought for the Day

Living Geography

Quiet in conscience, calm in their right Confident their ways are best Quick to judge, quick to anger Slow to understand Ignorance and prejudice And fear, walk hand in hand Neil Peart I saw Rush play this live twice the previous year. good times!

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AMOC on the BBC

Living Geography

This story was in the Financial Times a few weekends' ago , and is now on the BBC News. The answer is yes by the way.

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