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Listen to my interview with Jen Serravallo ( transcript ): Sponsored by Wix Tomorrow and Brisk Teaching This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. If you click these and make a purchase from Amazon, Cult of Pedagogy will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. As I considered how to introduce this post, I started by looking for statistics that could paint a picture of where modern-day students are with their reading skills.
Imagine youre a student in high school or college. Class is about to start. You are faced with a notable dilemma: Should you whip out a notebook or a laptop to take notes? The answer is not so simple. A year ago, paper and pen seemed to be the winner when the journal Frontiers in Psychology published a Norwegian study that documented how different areas of the brain were communicating more frequently when students were writing by hand.
This week in 8th-grade social studies, we brought history to life with engaging EduProtocols that helped students dive deep into the Early Republic and key moments like the Whiskey Rebellion. From Sketch and Tell-O activities that broke down complex ideas to Progressive Sketch and Tell timelines that visualized historical events, we kept creativity at the forefront.
Earlier this month at Truesdell Elementary, in the last five minutes of one of my classes, I called for my students' attention. Class, class! I called. Yes, yes, they responded in unison. I have a recognition to make. I held up one of my fourth grade students perspective drawings and projected it for the class to see. His carefully rendered parallel, vertical and diagonal lines converging at the vanishing point created a stunning visual.
First Call for Papers Womens History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections.
JOLIET, Ill. After several challenging and stressful months in the neonatal intensive care unit, Karen Heath couldnt wait to take her triplet sons home. The boys had been born severely premature at 25 weeks, each weighing a bit over a pound. In the early hours, doctors cautioned they would not survive long. The triplets, thankfully, proved the doctors wrong.
In the 8th century CE, the Avars—an enigmatic group with roots in the East Asian steppes—settled in Central Europe, weaving a tapestry of cultural cohesion amid genetic diversity. New research, published in Nature 1 by an international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, delves into the lives of two neighboring Avar communities in Lower Austria.
Danielle Robinson desperately wants to help math teachers, but its a tough job. An instructional coach for K-5 math teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools in Wisconsin, Robinson can find herself zipping around several of the schools she works with in the city to assist teachers, give workshops or try to help vice principals grasp the nuances of math instruction.
Danielle Robinson desperately wants to help math teachers, but its a tough job. An instructional coach for K-5 math teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools in Wisconsin, Robinson can find herself zipping around several of the schools she works with in the city to assist teachers, give workshops or try to help vice principals grasp the nuances of math instruction.
Here are two clips about the Opium Wars. One is from CNN Millenium , which I often show my students and the other is from Micheal Wood in The Story of China. Both are short, about 8 to 10 minutes. In the CNN Millenim video, the Opium War starts at 28.49 and runs to 36.50. The clip from The Story of China is eight minutes long.
Earning a college education can be the gateway to a brighter future with greater earning potential, improved career options and a strong sense of well-being for graduates. These benefits dont just impact graduates they ripple through families and communities, strengthening our society as a whole. But today only 36 percent of Americans express high confidence in higher education, according to recent polling.
An Ancient Cave with Modern Questions Franchthi Cave, nestled in the Peloponnesian peninsula of Greece, has been a silent witness to 40,000 years of human history. It serves as a critical archaeological site for understanding the transition from Mesolithic hunter-gatherers to Neolithic agriculturalists. A recent study published in PLOS ONE 1 takes a groundbreaking approach to unraveling the dietary patterns of its inhabitants, using compound-specific stable isotope analysis (CSIA) to bring clari
Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her. Since 2010, Rhue has been a school librarian at Providence Englewood Charter School, a preK-8 school on the South Side of Chicago serving primarily Black and brown students wh
Why didnt the Romans invent the steam engine, electricity, or the airplane? Perhaps because they were 3 IQ points less clever than they could have been. The culprit: lead pollution but not of the kind we already knew about. Odd and violent behavior The Romans drank tap water from lead pipes, prepared and ate their food on lead-containing kitchenware, used lead in their cosmetics, and even sweetened and preserved their wine with lead acetate.
LONDON Participants at one of the worlds largest early childhood conferences late last year were eager to learn from each other, and notably collegial until one of the final sessions of the event. During a presentation about artificial intelligence in early childhood, a presenter suggested using an AI program to create artwork based on child prompts.
A New Chapter in Early Human Dispersal The story of humanity's expansion out of Africa has long been marked by unanswered questions about the timing, routes, and survival of early hominins in Eurasia. A new study published in Nature Communications 1 explores evidence from the Grăunceanu site in Romania, pushing the presence of early humans in Europe to at least 1.95 million years ago.
Recent federal data on school enrollment adds more detail to the picture we have about falling numbers of students in the nations public K-12 classrooms. Most of the countrys 100 largest districts by enrollment have seen declines since the 2019-20 school year. The National Center for Education Statistics released its data for 2023-24 in December. Nine out of the 10 biggest districts including New York City, Los Angeles and Miami-Dade have seen enrollment dip by up to 13 percent compared to the
Photo by Victoria Strelka_ph on Pexels.com One of the first blogs I wrote for the mentors of beginning teachers explored why mentees find changing teaching placements so hard. This blog contextualised the feelings that beginning teachers (although this is also true of more experienced teachers) can have when beginning roles in new school settings. It compared the experience to that of a toddlers shape-sorter, with the teacher represented by the blocks being pushed into the school-shaped spaces.
I met Nazneen, a twenty-five-year-old university student, in an eating joint tucked away from the busy and crowded lanes of Patna Market in 2022. In this historic commercial heart of Patna, dressed in a dark blue abaya, Nazneen sat at a corner table, her textbooks spread before her, stealing glances at her watch. As I approached her for a cup of chai, she began gathering her things, a sense of urgency in her movements. “I have to go, I am sorry I won’t be able to talk to you today fo
Between 45,000 and 29,000 years ago, early human activity not only altered landscapes but also reshaped the complex web of interactions between scavengers and prey. A recent study, published in Quaternary Science Reviews 1 , suggests that the hunting behaviors of early Homo sapiens fundamentally changed the composition of scavenger guilds across Europe.
2024-2025 Spring Fellows Deadline: March 9, 2025 Applications for the 2025-2026 APSA Diversity Fellowship Program-SpringCycle are nowopen! The springapplication cycle will provide $2000 awards to support first and second year students in political science PhD programs. Applications are due onMarch 9, 2025. Submit an online application now ! Completed applications will include a letter of enrollment verification, personal statement,resume, and two lettersof recommendation.
A tip-off via BlueSky. Tree.FM will play the sound of a random forest. Good for escaping or relaxing. Click to be taken to another forest if you fancy a change. People around the world recorded the sounds of their forests, so you can escape into nature, and unwind wherever you are. Take a breath and soak in the forest sounds as they breathe with life and beauty!
The image of our ancient ancestors as hunters feasting on mammalian prey has long shaped our understanding of human evolution. But new research 1 from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the University of the Witwatersrand suggests that Australopithecus , a pivotal member of the human lineage that lived 3.5 million years ago, primarily relied on a plant-based diet.
Context Matters: Understanding Student Usage, Skills, and Attitudes Toward AI to Inform Classroom Policies By Christine Cahill and Katherine McCabe , Rutgers University With the growing prevalence of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, political science instructors are navigating how to manage the use and misuse of AI in the classroom. This study underscores the prevalence of AI in academic settings and suggests pedagogical practices to integrate AI in the classroom in ways that are informed by students
There's a lot of geography in this news item from the BBC News on the controversies surrounding beach cabanas on Australian beaches. Cabanas are small gazebo like structures, which offer some shade from the strong sun without blocking out any breeze, and allow people to stay on the beach for longer, and more safely, during the Australian summer. However, the number of these structures is causing some problems and there are contrasting views on them.
For decades, scientists have studied the decline and eventual disappearance of Neanderthals, our closest extinct relatives. A recent study published in Scientific Reports 1 offers a unique perspective, focusing on the genetic makeup of their red blood cells. The research suggests that a rare blood group found in Neanderthals, linked to potential fatal complications in newborns, might have contributed to their downfall.
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In a country full of negative perceptions about China, Jehovahs Witnesses persist in reaching out to Chinese communitiesby learning to conduct church services in Chinese. Under the 1996 constitution, Zambia officially became a Christian nation, with 95.5 percent of the population being Christian. The Jehovahs Witnesses have enjoyed remarkable evangelical success in Zambia, and more than 3,000 Jehovahs Witness congregations have been established in the country since 1911.
On this day, we are pleased to post this essay by Lucas Morel , Class of 1960 Professor of Ethics and Politics at Washington and Lee University and long time former faculty member at Teaching American History, who considers the lasting legacy of King’s great speech: Equality, Fairness and Brotherhood: Common Ground for the Nation’s Diverse Citizenry August 28th, 2013, marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.s I Have a Dream speech, which ranks among the most famous speech
Gamification and games-based learning can be powerful tools for increasing student engagement and knowledge retention. While games cannot replace classroom instruction, they can enhance learning when intentionally integrated into a lesson plan. Games have been shown to have positive learning impacts in the classroom , including driving student engagement and fostering classroom relationships and groupwork.
The GTE Conference is an event I have attended periodically since 2009: the first time I attended, which was when I joined the Geographical Association. GTE = Geography Teacher Educators. Until then I'd been unaware of it, and it was rare to see a teacher there. In the last few years, there have been a few more teachers attending, sometimes in their role as leads for a large MAT or organisation.
For those who prefer their information in a more-colourful magazine-style format than bare-bones blog posts, Ive put the two recent Marshmallow Test posts together in an online flipbook format that adds to the growing collection Ive put together over the years.
Climate, Conflict, and Context: Reevaluating Americans Support for Refugees By Nazita Lajevardi , Michigan State University , Tarah Williams , Allegheny College , Evan Stewart , University of MassachusettsBoston , and Roy Whitaker , San Diego State University As more people are displaced by climate change, public acceptance of migrants is an increasingly relevant geographical and political issue.
Norfolk is at risk of coastal erosion. A coastal task force is apparently being created to explore the best options for saving homes at Hemsby, where homes in the dunes have been lost regularly for some years. The BBC had a feature last week on a related story of Briony Nierop Reading. She lost her house in Happisburgh after the storm surge of December 2013.
Three short(ish) films dredged-up from The Archive (Im not exactly sure which Archive but it probably sounds more-authentic than found on an old neglected hard drive) that provide a good overview of the major theoretical strands in the history of sociological theorising about crime and deviance. 1.
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