ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

How often do you come in contact with a conspiracy theory? Maybe on occasion, when you flip through TV channels and land on an episode of “Ancient Aliens.” Or perhaps when a friend from high school shares a questionable meme on Facebook. How confident are you in your ability to tell fact from fiction? If you’re a teen, you could be exposed to conspiracy theories and a host of other pieces of misinformation as frequently as every day while scrolling through your social media feeds.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

These days, it seems that everyone says they want change. However, the fact is that those asking for it might not be as open to the idea as they want others to think. The number dwindles even more when considering who wants to lead the process. No matter how you slice and dice it, improving outcomes aligned with change relies on the dreaded “A” word – accountability.

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NCHE

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Shauna Liverotti, an education coordinator at NCHE, sat down with me to discuss her views on the current history education landscape. She has over 20 years of experience in the field and has seen the reality of this space change time and again. I wanted to know how the landscape has shifted during her career, particularly since she first collaborated with NCHE as a spotlight educator in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

How often have you heard someone say: “I’m just not a math person?” People are reluctant to say they are illiterate but proud to share their low math identity. We tend to think of math as a subject that’s accessible only to certain types of people. But that’s a false assumption, and it’s holding back achievement for far too many students. With the right instructional approach, everyone can learn and do math.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

When I came out to my family during my first year of college in the early 2000s, my mom’s immediate concern extended beyond my safety and happiness to my future as an educator. She asked, “But what about your career?” as though living authentically meant I’d have to hide my queerness to succeed in teaching. In that moment, even before I entered my teacher preparation program, I confronted a troubling reality: in education, there would always be scripts I’d be expected to follow.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The post Advancing Digital Equity: Key Insights from the League of Innovative Schools Convening appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In collaboration with USA TODAY, "America’s Veterans: Honor, Service, and Sacrifice" is a tribute to veterans—covering Veterans Day history, personal stories, military branches and awards, and intergenerational activities to honor the legacy of the country's veterans.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In the United States, young children attend programs that most refer to as “daycares” or “child cares,” staffed by people that many think of as “workers.” That has to change, argues author Dan Wuori in his new book, “ The Daycare Myth: What We Get Wrong About Early Care and Education (and What We Should Do About It). ” We ought to eliminate those terms from our lexicon and, instead, think of those programs as schools and the adults employed there as teachers, Wuori writes.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The post How A Student Team in Zimbabwe Aims to Improve Youth Employment appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Every presidential election year revives questions about our system of voting through the Electoral College. Teachers tell us that students find this the most perplexing feature of our constitutional system. Below, we offer an explanation of why the Electoral College exists, how it works, and what happens when the electoral count in any state is contested.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Over the past few years, it’s become clear that states need more money to support kids. Pandemic-related aid is long gone, but effects from that era still linger, evident in persistent child care shortages and ongoing child behavioral and mental health concerns. Now, states are increasingly trying to generate new sources of money to support young children, although in at least one state, a ballot measure was designed to pull back on just these kinds of efforts.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. Today, that sure seems quaint. Suddenly, new consumer AI tools have hit the market that can take any piece of text, audio or video and provide that same kind of simplified summary.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Researchers refute a popular idea that black-furred squirrels behave more aggressively than gray ones—and suggest the myth stems from some people’s racist attitudes. SQUIRREL CHATTER A few years back, one of us was chatting with neighbors when the subject of squirrels came up. While most squirrels in the small New Jersey town were gray, everyone had noticed quite a few with black fur as well.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Through extensive DNA analysis, scientists from Trinity College Dublin, in collaboration with an international research team, have unlocked the complex genetic history of the aurochs—a prehistoric species that has been central to human culture, depicted in ancient art and later domesticated into what we know today as modern cattle. The study, analyzing 38 ancient genomes spanning 50,000 years and multiple regions from Siberia to Britain, offers new insights into the evolutionary journey of

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Those of us who worked with high school students in the wake of the Supreme Court’s historic decision overturning race-conscious admissions can’t profess shock over news showing decreases in enrollment among Black and Latinx students across many college campuses, especially those considered competitive for enrollment. We saw this coming. Last year we saw too many highly qualified students shy away from applying to schools because they were sent a message that they wouldn’t get in without affirma

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

With all the talk of the downsides of smartphones for teenagers, parents have looked to smartwatches as a way to stay in contact with their young children while avoiding the full internet and social media access of a phone. At least that was the narrative a couple of years ago. But more recently, more companies have been marketing smartwatches to kids as young as 4 and 5 years old.

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Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

This week was all about keeping engagement high and adapting to student needs with a strong lineup of EduProtocols. We started by wrapping up our government voice inquiry with a Thick Slide summary and fast Gimkit reviews, then dived into Sketch and Tell-o on Loyalist perspectives and Enlightenment ideas with Parafly paraphrasing exercises. Thursday’s Halloween twist saw students using Number Mania for the Declaration of Independence, while Friday’s low attendance turned into a lively Gimkit Dra

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Ancient Artistry of Ochre Mining in Eswatini The Lion Cavern at Ngwenya, Eswatini, holds groundbreaking evidence 1 of humanity's earliest intensive ochre mining practices, dating back 48,000 years. This remarkable find suggests not only a profound commitment to artistic and symbolic expression but also the beginnings of human impact on the environment.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

This entry marks our departure as Contributing Editors for the Association for Feminist Anthropology’s (AFA) column in Anthropology News ( AN ). We write these words as a ritual of closure serving as appointed members of the AFA Executive Board. We also write to reflect on the works we patiently, lovingly, and laboriously shepherded into publication over the past four years and what they reveal about feminist anthropology.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Evaluating and validating tech tools takes time and energy — resources that are always in short supply. An overwhelming variety of tools are available, each claiming to improve student outcomes in different ways, making it difficult to discern which will have the most meaningful impact. Added layers of complexity about compatibility, security and cost can lead to decision fatigue.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A letter from Steve Brace is on the Guardian's web page today. It is a reminder of the strong connections between geography and the teaching of climate change issues.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The Origins of Burial Practices in Human Evolution Around 120,000 years ago, both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals began practicing intentional burial in the Levant region, shaping a complex cultural narrative in human evolution. This early practice of burying the dead suggests that burial may have emerged from intertwined cultural needs shared between the two species, indicating a surprisingly developed level of ritual and perhaps a response to intensified competition.

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Perspectives in Anthropology

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Written by Keith Hart [Summary: The two centuries since the industrial revolution are a blink of the eye of world history, yet we are trapped in a perspective shaped by the daily news in one of its national fragments.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

1935-2024 Anton Blok, 1935-2024 Dutch anthropologist Anton Blok died on June 24th, at the age of 89. He was one of the most prominent anthropologists in the Netherlands during the second half of the twentieth century. Anton Blok published several pioneering studies and numerous thought-provoking articles, many of which were focused on themes related to violence and its control.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

A great piece in a recent Sunday's Observer explored the work of Corinne Fowler and her new book where she takes a series of walks in the company of others and unpicks the colonial stories which have helped shape the present day landscape. Corinne was the author of a report exploring the National Trust's links with colonialism which was of course called 'woke', which I don't see as an insult - it's important to be awake to injustice.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Ancient Mud Unlocks 130,000 Years of Australia’s Fire Management History Australia’s relationship with fire extends back thousands of years, with Indigenous land management practices deeply shaping the continent’s ecology. A recent study published in Science 1 examines how Aboriginal communities increased land management activities in southeastern Australia about 6,000 years ago, reducing forest shrub cover dramatically.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Fine Motor Magic: Activities to Strengthen Little Hands Nov 07, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Hello everyone! I hope you all are doing well! I was recently talking with a dear teacher friend of mine. She was expressing how so many of her 3rd-grade students still struggle with some fine motor skills and how it has negatively impacted their learning. Fine motor skills are so important because they help people complete many everyday tasks, including writing, drawing, dressing, cooking, eating, and enjoy

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

THE OTHER ABE AND HIS SON MORDECAI History lies just down the road. The turnpike of rolling time that runs right through your own lifeline. The one right there in front of your door. In my case, it is Shelbyville Road, originally cut by Squire Boone [Daniel’s brother] in the late 1700s. An escape route from his stockade on Clear Creek to the settlement stations at the Falls of the Ohio River that would later become Louisville.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

"To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world – and at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.” Marshall Berman The next session I went to at Practical Pedagogies was by Matt Podbury : a colleague of the organiser Russel Tarr at the International School of Toulouse.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

High in the Zeravshan Valley of Tajikistan, the Soii Havzak rock-shelter has provided researchers with an invaluable glimpse into early human migration routes and daily life in Central Asia. Discovered 1 only recently, this rock-shelter sits 40 meters above a tributary of the Zeravshan River, approximately 10 kilometers north of Panjakent. It contains layers of human occupation spanning the Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods, approximately 150,000 to 20,000 years ago.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Creating Student Buy-In with Studies Weekly | Teacher Testimonial Nov 07, 2024 Video Transcript Speaker : Mechelle C., 4th Grade Teacher, KS Tell us why you love Studies Weekly! Mechelle C.: My team and I love the Studies Weekly resource because it’s current informational text. We were using outdated curriculum, so piecing together components that would make it more current was also an endeavor.

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ShortCutsTV

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Not to be confused with the much older (but still useful) Psychology Teachers Toolkit, this particular Teachers’ Toolkit has more-official origins in the sense it’s a co-production between the British Psychological Society and the Association for the Teaching of Psychology.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

It's a few years now since the UK's involvement with ERASMUS+ was ended by Brexit. One of my last projects was the D3: Developing Digital Data Literacy project. The design of this website is one of the best of any that I participated in, and I had a lot to do with the contents as well, including some lesson blueprints and the final Module 4 which explore how the 15 minute city might It's well worth a look.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Engaging students is about more than just presenting content. It’s about creating an environment where they actively participate in their learning. This involves encouraging students to talk, debate, and collaborate with their peers, turning passive listening into dynamic interaction. By integrating classroom discussion strategies that promote movement, speaking, and listening, educators can foster critical thinking and deeper engagement with the material.

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Women's History Network

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Scanning Auntie Emmie’s attic with torchlight, a time-worn leather suitcase caught Susan’s eye. Emmie would regularly retrieve the suitcase from the attic, but its contents were never shared. Opening it up carefully, Susan was presented with material traces of a personal story her great-aunt Emmie Chester had only vaguely and fragmentally revealed.

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O-Level Geography

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

A joint effort by businesses, such as Rolex, with local communities in the preservation of our natural and cultural heritage. What are the efforts made to preserve the natural and cultural heritage in Bali, Indonesia?

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Nick Drake committed suicide fifty years ago this year. Mackenzie Crook has released a picture book which is called 'If Nick Drake came to my house'. In a couple of weeks' time I am going to the Cambridge Union to hear him speak about it. I'm looking forward to it very much. Mackenzie was on the One Show a few days ago talking about the book and his love of Nick Drake's music.

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