Sapiens
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
When producers for a popular Netflix series sought a permit to film on public lands in the U.S. Southwest, many Native leaders objected. A Hopi tribal official, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, shares his views. ✽ In early 2024, a controversy swirled around filming for the Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse in the Grand Canyon and Chaco Canyon in the U.S. Southwest.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
For many years, educators have envisioned personalized learning as a way to tailor education to each student's unique needs. With advances in artificial intelligence, this vision is becoming a reality. AI has the potential to transform classrooms by offering personalized learning experiences that align with individual strengths, interests and learning needs.
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Becoming a History Teacher
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Photo by Lukas on Pexels.com Most beginning teachers are very concerned about what they should wear on their first day at their school placement. Do they need a tie? Are these shoes (imagine a comfy formal shoe with echoes of trainer) ok? Do tattoos need to be covered, and piercings removed?Why is this one of their primary concerns? Because they want to make a good impression and appear professional and, in their mind, professionalism is most often associated with good timekeeping, attendance an
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
College students around the world have deep-seated fears, if not despair about the existential threat of climate change — fears they may have harbored since childhood. As the frequency of severe weather events increases and the Earth’s temperature inches upward, emotions have intensified for a lot of students in the United States and it turns out that many keep their concerns about living on a warming planet to themselves.
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
The post A Walk Down Memory Lane: 10 Years of Research on Micro-credentials appeared first on Digital Promise.
Anthropology.net
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Human evolution, as it turns out, has been profoundly shaped by climatic changes. A recent review published in the Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 1 journal explores how fluctuations in climate and vegetation were pivotal forces in the evolutionary journey of early humans. The review delves deep into the evolution of the hominins—members of the subfamily Homininae , which includes modern humans—during the Pleistocene epoch, a time marked by critical environmental transitions a
Living Geography
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
for the second year of this project. plenty of things planned during the year ahead. They have launched a Hidden Nature Challenge to be completed in October, with a chance to win some prizes.
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Living Geography
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
An interactive 360 experience, looking at a project aimed at halting desertification. It explores the creation of bunds. These are simple holes in the ground which can help to trap rainwater. Click, scroll and explore.
Society for Classical Studies
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
CFP: Res Difficiles 6 kskordal Wed, 09/18/2024 - 09:05 Image CALL FOR PAPERS Res Difficiles 6 Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In Classics Organizers : Hannah Čulík-Baird (UCLA) and Joseph Romero (TAMUC) Date : Friday March 21, 2025 Platform : Webinar Since 2020 Res Difficiles has been a venue for addressing inequities within the field of Classics, examining issues arising out of intersectional vectors of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, class, socio-economic status
Living Geography
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
I was sorry to hear this evening of the passing of Norman Ackroyd on Monday: one of our very greatest landscape artists. He was a remarkable printmaker and artist. He shared the laborious process of making his etchings in several documentaries. Listen to this programme with Robert MacFarlane. RIP the great artist Norman Ackroyd (1938-16.09.24): etcher-magician who conjured weather & light from metal & acid; his work constitutes one of the great visual records of this archipelago’s edges.
Anthropology 365
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
I was a guest on The Sausage of Science podcast with Dr. Chris Lynn, discussing my research. Listen below.
Living Geography
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Another Wednesday has come round, and it's time for another Worldly Wednesday. I'm sure they will come round faster and faster as the year progresses. This week, I spent it doing a few jobs related to current projects. I completed a range of authoring on textbooks and dealt with queries linked to my series editor role. In the afternoon I had a Zoom call about a potential project which I can say nothing else about, but gave my thoughts which I hope were helpful.
Institute for Citizens & Scholars
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Raj is interviewed for a College Uncovered episode on new protest policies, student activism, and how colleges are promoting civil discourse training.
O-Level Geography
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
How is the Sumatra squall formed? When do squalls mainly occur? What are the impacts of the squall on 17 Sept 2024?
Political Science Now
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Guilt and Guilty Pleas By Andrew T. Little , University of California, Berkeley , and Hannah K. Simpson , Texas A&M University Plea bargaining figures heavily in criminal justice systems in the United States and, increasingly, around the globe. Conventional wisdom holds that plea bargaining generates efficiency gains for all parties, while sorting the guilty from the innocent.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. — Principal Lauren Dressback didn’t think about it after it happened. After all, she was workplace-close with Wesley Smith, the custodian at Cahaba Heights Elementary School, in this affluent suburb of Birmingham. She called him “the mayor.” She said that he knew her two children, asked about her family almost daily and made a point of interacting.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Following intense, sometimes violent protests on campuses, colleges and universities are taking steps to encourage better and more civil dialogue and debate among students who disagree. Some schools are offering new guidance and coursework around how students should speak to one another in an effort to bridge deep differences. At the same time, they’re tightening restrictions on campus protests related to the war in Gaza, and cracking down on protest tactics with heightened enforcement.
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