A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

No matter what education circle you are in, AI is likely a topic of conversation. Some see it as the holy grail of education, and this has manifested in countless books and presentations, especially at technology conferences. Even events that are not focused on digital have sessions dedicated to the topic. On the other hand, there are an equal number of skeptics and opponents of using AI in schools.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Bertrand Russell’s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking by Terry Heick For a field of study that explores the nature of knowledge, Philosophy has had a surprisingly small impact on education. Most formal academic ‘platforms’ like public schools and universities tend to parse knowledge into content areas–what is being learned–rather than how and why it is being learned.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Does AI actually help students learn? A recent experiment in a high school provides a cautionary tale. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that Turkish high school students who had access to ChatGPT while doing practice math problems did worse on a math test compared with students who didn’t have access to ChatGPT. Those with ChatGPT solved 48 percent more of the practice problems correctly, but they ultimately scored 17 percent worse on a test of the topic that the students were

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Chaula Butterworth was a stay-at-home mom before the pandemic, raising her three school-aged kids. But as her youngest child’s school district sought to return to in-person learning in 2021, Butterworth felt something of a call to service. Many teachers and school staff were reluctant to return to crowded classrooms and hallways as the virus continued to spread.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The post Fostering Student Innovation in the Ciena Solutions Challenge appeared first on Digital Promise.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Don’t Use Physical Education As Punishment contributed by Dr. Kymm Ballard, Executive Director for SPARK Think about any time you’ve seen “army boot camp” portrayed in pop culture — are you picturing the traditional drill sergeant, ordering his troops to do endless laps and push-ups, as punishment for their errors that day? Now, with that scenario in your mind, imagine it being played out by children and teenagers at school — and instead of drill sergeants, their teachers are at the helm.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

MILWAUKEE — On a muggy afternoon in late June, about 20 kindergarten through second-grade teachers sat in a classroom on the third floor of Milwaukee’s North Division High School. The air conditioning wasn’t working properly, but the heat didn’t seem to bother the teachers, who were absorbed in a math lesson. Danielle Robinson and Alicia Socha, two teachers in the district, led the lesson.

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TCI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Stay updated with our newest features and tools. Here are the latest updates from last month: Randomizing Answer Choices: You can now shuffle the order of answer choices in close-ended questions (e.g. multiple-choice questions), giving each student a unique set of answers. To enable this feature, check “Randomize answer choices” when assigning the assessment.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

15 Alternatives To Report Cards In The K-12 Classroom by TeachThought Staff Like lunchboxes (or brown paper sacks), field trips, and textbooks, report cards are iconic–symbols of traditional classrooms and traditional approaches to education. In its name, the purpose of a ‘report card’ is plain enough: to report on progress. But it’s not that simple.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The post How We Use Play to Promote Childhood Literacy in Indonesia appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Crisis. Fatalistic. Overwhelming. That’s how some experts say the current national conversation about youth mental health is framed — and counter to its goal, that lens is hurting the ability to find solutions that help adolescents better weather mental health struggles. They spoke during a media briefing on youth mental health organized by the FrameWorks Institute, a nonprofit that studies how people think about social issues.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Elizabeth Eckford attempting to enter Little Rock School on September 4, 1957. Johnny Jenkins, United Press. Library of Congress. Two well-known black and white photographs depict the struggle to end racial segregation in Southern schools that continued after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Less well known is the woman who organized and supported the brave actions of the Little Rock Nine: Daisy Bates.

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TeachThought

AUGUST 31, 2024

What Are Google Search Operators? by TeachThought Staff Google search operators are special characters and commands you can use to refine your search queries on Google. They help narrow down results by specifying more precisely what you’re looking for. For example, using quotation marks (“”) around a phrase will return results with that exact phrase.

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Heinemann Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In this episode, we explore the pitfalls of reading incentives and how they can undermine intrinsic motivation and create a culture of winners and losers. Instead, discover how to build a supportive and equitable reading community that truly values the joy of reading. Tune in for this thought-provoking audiobook sample from The Joy of Reading by Donalyn Miller and Terry Lesesne.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Jeremy Price was curious to see whether new AI chatbots including ChatGPT are biased around issues of race and class. So he devised an unusual experiment to find out. Price, who is an associate professor of technology, innovation, and pedagogy in urban education at Indiana University, went to three major chatbots — ChatGPT, Claude and Google Bard (now called Gemini) — and asked them to tell him a story about two people meeting and learning from each other, complete with details like the names of

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

In many middle and high schools, students spend hundreds of hours a year on English language arts (ELA) assignments that don’t ask enough of them. Too many students are working on below-grade-level tasks using below-grade-level texts. That approach, while well-intentioned, is not closing gaps or preparing students for life after high school. Is it any wonder that reading scores haven’t improved in 30 years?

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Labeling a book “great” is a matter of opinion, but when you pile together the opinion of 13 other book-loving folks, you start to get somewhere close to credibility. Alistofbooks.com compiles 13 lists of the greatest books ever published, using contributions from individuals and organizations ranging from The Harvard Book Store to the BBC.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A Chronicle of Higher Education article highlights College Presidents for Civic Preparedness and the focus on free expression and civil discourse on campuses.

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Women's History Network

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces 3 talks and document display on Saturday 12 0ctober 10-1.00pm: Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Opening of the London School of Medicine for Women: Talks by Claire Brock, Mary Chapman and Victoria Rea at The London Archives. Organised in collaboration with Claire Brock and The London Archives.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

At the end of July, McDowell Technical Community College in Marion, North Carolina, hosted a party for something people don’t typically throw parties for: Applying for financial aid. The campus is often quiet after 5pm, but on this day, it was transformed into a loud and lively space for Latino families from the western part of the state. While they waited for their turn in an upstairs computer lab where bilingual education advocates could help them fill out their FAFSA, they ate from a hodgepod

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The video game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves opens in media res. The camera pans to Nathan Drake, treasure hunter/adventurer/thief, who is barely clinging on to the side of a rusty train car that lays perched on the edge of a deadly cliff in the freezing Himalayas. You are thrust into embodying him, forcefully immersed by the snow-silenced soundscape and the vibration of the controller at each precarious grasp to safety.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Throughout the annals of human history, no animal has had a more profound impact on the development of human societies than the horse. The story of how, when, and where horses were first domesticated has long been a topic of intense scientific inquiry. As research continues to evolve, it is becoming increasingly clear that the history of horse domestication is more complex and nuanced than previously thought. " Hoof Beats " invites readers on an zoo-archaeological journey through the ancient bon

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ShortCutsTV

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

A couple of years ago – November 2022 to be precise – we launched the Psychology Film Club as a way of offering our complete Psychology library of films to schools and colleges at a reasonable and affordable subscription rate (£25 a year or roughly 50p a week for access to what is currently 50+ […]

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Editor’s note : This article was produced with support from the Education Writers Association Reporting Fellowship program. In a state full of rural, tucked away corners, Lincoln County is one of Montana’s most rural and tucked away. The county of 20,000 people is located in the state’s far northwest corner, bordering Canada and Idaho’s panhandle. Its communities are dotted around the Kootenai National Forest, whose 2.2 million acres of firs, pines, spruces and towering mountains define the crag

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Perspectives in Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Written by Keith Hart The classical liberal revolutions were sustained by three ideas: that freedomand economic progress require increased movement …

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Researchers have developed an innovative population model 1 that sheds new light on the complex dynamics of human dispersal across Europe during the Aurignacian period, approximately 43,000 to 32,000 years ago. This interdisciplinary collaboration between climate scientists and archaeologists offers unprecedented detail in understanding how early anatomically modern humans spread across the continent, influenced by the dramatic climatic fluctuations of the Last Ice Age.

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O-Level Geography

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Super Typhoon caused much damage to the Phillippines and China in Sept 2024. Why does climate change cause more frequent and intense typhoons? What are the impacts of the typhoon?

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Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Engaging Students with Studies Weekly | Teacher Testimonial Sep 06, 2024 Video Transcript Speaker: Elizabeth Spasiano, 3rd Grade Teacher, NJ Elizabeth Spasiano: The reasons that I love using Social Studies Weekly as the teacher are really three-fold. Number 1: it’s very easy. The Teacher’s Guide lays everything out for you. It shows you where you can concentrate on vocabulary, the overreaching theme, comprehension questions, higher-level thinking, and also through the Teacher’s Guide, you

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Women's History Network

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces a free talk on TUESDAY 1 OCTOBER 6.00pm-7.00pm at Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre Bethany Brigham will take a broad look at Shelley’s body of work, particularly emphasising her novels beyond ‘Frankenstein’ and the way in which they also incorporate her interest in nineteenth-century medico-scientific contexts.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A submerged 25-foot bridge in a cave on the Spanish island of Mallorca has provided groundbreaking insights into the early human colonization of the western Mediterranean. Recent research led by geologists from the University of South Florida has revealed that humans settled in this region much earlier than previously believed. This discovery, published in Communications Earth & Environment 1 , challenges long-held assumptions about the timeline of human migration and settlement across the M

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

I've just finalised the plans for a session for GCSE and 'A' Level teachers and students later this month as part of the programme of events offered by the GA Gloucester Branch. It's an upate of a session I created for the GA Oxford Branch last year. I explore some of the ways that teachers and students can research case studies they need to remember for exams to make them come to life a little more, and ensure they are a little more authentic, contemporary and relevant, as well as memorable for

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Life and Landscapes

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

MAGNETIC ELECTRICITY, OR JUST A SUMMER STORM? Do you know what it is? Few really do. Maybe you. For the rest of us, let’s start here. You will find the result “illuminating.” Magnetism and electricity. They are the same thing. And together, they are a force of nature. Let’s see how. It’s all about photons.

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Women's History Network

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces A free talk on Friday 4 October 2024 at 4.00pm at Senate House Library ‘The Petticoat Peril’ exploring women in pharmacy history Today, over 60% of British pharmacists are women, and women’s involvement in pharmacy has a very long history.

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Heinemann Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Lorena Germán discusses the racial silence in stories as a bias we need to address, and invites us to interrogate our imaginations. Part one of three.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Well, today was my first Worldly Wednesday. You'll remember that I said I was going to do these each week this academic year. This first one was quite low key as it was a novelty to be at home during the week in term time. I did some reading around the new Curriculum and Assessment Review and had some email exchanges regarding this. I did some writing for the several textbook projects I am currently working on.

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O-Level Geography

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

What caused overtourism? Why does overtourism cause conflicts with locals and the environment? How can the conflicts be managed?

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Women's History Network

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces an online talk: Monday 7 October: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: a modern woman 100 years ahead of her time: by Lucy Havard Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) is widely known as the first British woman who qualified as a doctor.

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