Why People Play Video Games
TeachThought
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
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
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
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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SDG Report 2024
Living Geography
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
I was looking at the SDG Dashboard site as I was creating a new resource.
New psychology curriculum guide out on Tuesday
Psychology Sorted
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
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.
A Short History of America
Living Geography
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
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.
#TeachTruth Syllabus
Zinn Education Project
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
The tsunami of laws and Executive Orders attacking public school curricula mobilize a range of doublespeak, from divisive concepts to race scapegoating to psychological stress; many include the admonition that teachers may not teach students that the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably racist or sexist. Many of the laws single out critical race theory as the curricular bogeyman.
Thought for the Day
Living Geography
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
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
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
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.
Cooper Education - CPD for exam support
Living Geography
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
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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