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 5, 2024

How Certain Words Change How Children Feel by Terry Heick While I often talk about ‘scale’ as one of the primary challenges in education –and have also wondered about curriculum , too–a more subversive concept constantly at play throughout education is tone. As an ‘English’ teacher, I always explained tone to students as a kind of ‘attitude’ that can be expressed in a variety of implicit and explicit ways–from words (said and unsaid) and body

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

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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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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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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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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I can’t pinpoint exactly when I developed anxiety, but that’s because I didn’t know about it. When I was growing up, I didn’t hear about the topic of mental health unless it was the butt of a joke. However, I do remember when I first learned that the tightening in my chest, the burning sensation in my hands and the sleepless nights were related to anxiety.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The first two times I tried college, I didn’t finish. There was never enough time to care for my young son, work a full-time job and do my schoolwork. And there was never enough money to pay rent, tuition and child care. On my third try, everything clicked. This time I was more motivated than ever before — to prove that I could do it, to prove the doubters wrong.

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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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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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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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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I Eliminated (Almost) All Grading Problems In My Classroom by Terry Heick Grading problems are one of the most urgent bugaboos of good teaching. Grading can take an extraordinary amount of time. It can also demoralize students, get them in trouble at home, or keep them from getting into a certain college. It can demoralize teachers, too. If half the class is failing, any teacher worth their salt will take a long, hard look at themselves and their craft.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Lipid Nanoparticles in Drug Delivery: Strategic Considerations for Leadership Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have emerged as one of modern medicine’s most significant drug delivery systems. They play a pivotal role in the success of mRNA-based vaccines and other advanced therapies. With their ability to deliver drugs, genes, and vaccines with high precision and efficiency, LNPs are revolutionizing how we treat a wide range of diseases, from infectious diseases to cancer.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The urban landscape vanished entirely as the bus entered the tunnel. In a few minutes, I would be arriving on Dongmen Island with a group of strangers to collaborate on an educational program called by its conveners “ a summer utopia with humanistic knowledge.” The courses covered many domains—design, medicine, the environment—but most featured an anthropological flair, and most of the organizers had an anthropology background.

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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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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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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Over the last 12,000 years, a pivotal shift occurred in the human genome, driven by the advent of agriculture and the shift to a carbohydrate-rich diet. A new study conducted by an international research team, including scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has revealed that humans have dramatically increased their capacity to digest starches, marking a significant moment in human evolution.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

On my campus, there is a zoological faculty, and its museum. This museum is filled with larvae in various stages of development, tadpoles and eggs, joining forces to enact different stages of a single life. Elsewhere, bees and ants pinned to hives stimulate the activities of collective life. A lobster is dismembered on a purple cushion to show its numerous components, and seven human fetuses float in jars, eyes variously opened or closed in eerie states of peace, calm, and disarray.

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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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Education Week - Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

School leaders says they advise teachers to avoid certain topics to fend off complaints from parents.

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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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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The post Going Native: Treasure appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The post Photo Recap: Thursday 2024 APSA Annual Meeting Highlights appeared first on.

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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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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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