Lift Every Voice in Tech: Black Talent Share How to Transform the Tech Industry
Digital Promise
JUNE 27, 2024
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LGBTQ+ Resources for Educators
Heinemann Blog
JUNE 27, 2024
Classrooms need to be safe and welcoming spaces for all children, including children and teens who identify as LGBTQ+. And teachers need to have all the tools to nurture and support all learners and build a classroom community that is inclusive and inviting. To that end, we have pulled together resources to educate ourselves, our classrooms, and our school communities to better support our LGBTQ+ students and colleagues.
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Opportunities for OpenSciEd: Identifying Practitioner Needs for Equitable Implementation
Digital Promise
JUNE 27, 2024
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Mister Rogers Showed Me How to Teach Civics (Opinion)
Education Week - Social Studies
JUNE 27, 2024
Learning civics can begin in kindergarten with the simple understanding that we are all part of a community. Here’s what that looks like.
Atomik
Living Geography
JUNE 27, 2024
A few weeks ago I was reminded of the Atomik spirit which was distilled from fruit found within the exclusion zone at Chernobyl. I have long had a fascination with this place, and had almost got to the point of organising a visit several times - it seems unlikely to ever happen now. There was a bottle and a wooden box in which it can be delivered and I now have a bottle to sip on special occasions, and savour the radioactive fruit.
David Cliff Grove
Anthropology News
JUNE 27, 2024
1935-2023 David C. Grove, 1935-2023 David C. Grove, Jubilee Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Courtesy Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida, passed away on May 24, 2023, at the age of 87 after a long illness. His career trajectory focused on the archaeology of complex societies in central Mexico c. 1000–500 BC in the Formative (Preclassic) period.
Fake Farms
Living Geography
JUNE 27, 2024
The Wicked Leeks newsletter is well worth subscribing to. A recent issue explored the Fake farms which are used by some supermarkets to market fruit and vegetables. Nick Eason talked about the problems with this sort of marketing. It could be a mass-produced tomato from an unsustainable, plastic-covered, Spanish holding, or intensively reared, factory-farmed meat that’s polluting British rivers.
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Filterworld
Living Geography
JUNE 27, 2024
Via Tim Cresswell, I discovered this book. I haven't bought a copy yet, but will see what else I can find out about it, and what extracts and related articles there are online. From the description: What happens when our cultural and artistic lives are dictated to us by an algorithm? What does it mean when shareability supersedes innovation? How can we make a choice when the options have been so carefully arranged for us?
Transforming Data into Human Stories: Machine-Learning-Based Models to Estimate Age-at-Death of Undocumented Migrants
Anthropology News
JUNE 27, 2024
In 2023, we witnessed a tragic surge in migrant deaths along migratory routes worldwide, marking it as one of the deadliest years on record according to the statistics from the Missing Migrant Project , with an estimated more than 8,000 cases. However, this figure probably underestimates the true magnitude of the problem, since many disappearances are not reported in official databases.
Upending the New Deal Regulatory Regime: Democratic Party Position Change on Financial Regulation
Political Science Now
JUNE 27, 2024
Upending the New Deal Regulatory Regime: Democratic Party Position Change on Financial Regulation By Richard Barton , Syracuse University Why did congressional Democrats upend the financial regulatory regime they had maintained since the New Deal? I argue that the congressional reforms of the mid-1970s paved the way for the Democratic Party’s turn against financial regulation.
AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms
Anthropology News
JUNE 27, 2024
How have you encountered AI today? Perhaps you listened to music recommended by an AI algorithm, used a navigational app to check AI-predicted traffic conditions, auto-captioned videos with AI-powered voice recognition, or checked email without even noticing the AI-filtered spam messages. AI is shaping our everyday lives, but as anthropology teaching faculty, most of our recent AI-related conversations have had a singular focus: how to deal with generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the classroom.
The Demystification of AI: An Industry Perspective
Anthropology News
JUNE 27, 2024
An anthropologist and a psychologist walk into a bank and decide to study Artificial Intelligence (AI). It sounds like the start of a joke—except, instead of a punchline, the result is a year’s worth of insights and the story of how we created a whole new industry research program to get them. At this point you might be thinking, what are social scientists even doing at a bank?
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