TeachThought
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Help Students Think Critically About News With These 20 Questions This post was originally published in 2019 and updated in 2024 by Terrell Heick 1. In the article, headline, or social share, ‘who’ is saying ‘what’? That is, what specific author and publication are making what kind of claim about what topic or ideas? 2. Is what’s being stated or claimed fact or opinion?
Passion for Social Studies
OCTOBER 27, 2024
The United States has experienced so many dynamic changes throughout its rich history. One of the most transformative periods was the Progressive Era, from the 1890s to the 1920s. During this time, the United States had to respond to the challenges posed by rapid industrialization, urbanization, and social issues. Ultimately, teaching the Progressive Era must address these concerns while showing how people had to work hard to improve society.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Share of new college students in the fall of 2015 who were still in high school and taking a dual enrollment class. Map reprinted from The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students A National and State-by-State Analysis (October 2024) Community College Research Center. Dual enrollment is exploding. During the 2022-23 school year, nearly 2.5 million high school students took college classes, simultaneously earning high school and college credits.
Sapiens
OCTOBER 31, 2024
A language scientist delves into historic and current efforts to catalog the planet’s 7,000-plus languages, uncovering colorful tales and Herculean challenges. ✽ As a scientist who has researched language diversity for a decade and a half, I recently joined a team to work on a task that even some linguists think is “ ultimately unobtainable ”: helping catalog and count the world’s complex and ever-changing languages.
TeachThought
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Tone As A Cause And Effect Of Learning by Terrell Heick In 20 Words That Can Affect How Students Think, , we said “Tone affects how students see themselves and their role in the learning process. In fact, a student’s own ongoing internal dialogue and thoughts about themselves and their self-identity as learners isn’t just a ‘factor’ in learning but one of the single most important factors.” This is central to the principle and practice of Social-Emotional Learning (and strategies for
ED Surge
OCTOBER 30, 2024
It is the weekend before my students arrive for the new school year. I am in my classroom listening to Lofi beats, pondering what has been and what is to come. All around my room are reminders of my identity as a 6’2, 280-pound Black and Puerto Rican man, husband, father, math teacher and basketball coach. I have come to find solace here; yes, these are part of my identity, which I hold dear to my heart — but as I have grown older, I have learned that few people ever see beyond them, including t
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 28, 2024
In my career as an arts educator and school administrator, I have met countless families whose children are excited to embark on a college education focused on filmmaking or acting. The parents are often less excited than their children, however: They seem both apprehensive and determined to steer their children to more “practical” pursuits. Given the financial realities regularly confronted by the arts and the high cost of postsecondary education, a bit of hesitation may be natural.
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Anthropology.net
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Recent groundbreaking research in Antiquity 1 has revolutionized the understanding of ancient Maya civilization. Utilizing cutting-edge lidar technology, researchers from Tulane University and Northern Arizona University have uncovered more than 6,500 structures hidden beneath the dense forests of Campeche, Mexico. This discovery not only reveals vast new settlements but also challenges long-held assumptions about the extent of Maya urbanization, including the existence of a previously unknown c
ED Surge
OCTOBER 31, 2024
What difference did $190 billion make for student success coming out of the COVID-19 health crisis? Not as much as you might think. An ESSER spending analysis by Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University found some puzzling instances where funneling more money into a pandemic-worsened problem didn’t help schools recover. The data ultimately points to no “silver bullet” in spending aimed at improving students’ academic performance since the pandemic, says Marguerite Roza, director of Edunomics Lab.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 29, 2024
LOCKHART, Texas — Sometime last year, Alfonso Sifuentes was on a bus tour as part of a chamber of commerce’s efforts to map out the future of the bustling Central Texas region south of Austin where he lives and works. There was chatter about why San Marcos, a suburb along one stretch of the Interstate 35 corridor, had little interest in a proposed expansion of Austin Community College into that area.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The post How One District is Scaling Student Tech Teams to Support Sustainable Technology Systems appeared first on Digital Promise.
Anthropology.net
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Tracing Urban Beginnings Urbanization, a hallmark of ancient civilizations, is often linked to complex societies in regions such as Mesopotamia and the Levant. However, findings in northern Arabia indicate that urban development here took on a slower, more gradual trajectory during the Bronze Age. New research, led by Guillaume Charloux and published in PLOS ONE 1 , focuses on the third-to-second-millennium BCE town of al-Natah, shedding light on Arabia's unique urbanization process during this
ED Surge
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Do new AI tools like ChatGPT actually understand language the same way that humans do? It turns out that even the inventors of these new large language models are debating that very question — and the answer will have huge implications for education and for all aspects of society if this technology can get to a point where it achieves what is known as Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI.
C3 Teachers
OCTOBER 30, 2024
“How do we know any of this is true?” This question has stayed with me for some time. A student, who would only be in my class for less than a month before transferring, asked it during my third year of teaching and my first year teaching a high school history class. My response at the time seemed to satisfy him and perhaps the rest of the class: I explained that we have sources that detail the history of the events we were discussing.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 31, 2024
The post Bridging the Digital Divide: A Path to Empowerment for Underserved Learners appeared first on Digital Promise.
Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Approximately 5,300 years ago, the populations of Scandinavia and northwestern Europe faced a significant collapse. Settlements were abandoned, and farming communities disappeared. The cause of this demographic shift has puzzled scholars, with theories ranging from agricultural crises to conflicts. However, recent genetic research published in Nature 1 offers another possibility: the ancient plague bacterium Yersinia pestis.
Living Geography
OCTOBER 28, 2024
I'm always pleased to receive my Riverford newsletter called 'Wicked Leeks' as there's generally several stories which are relevant to the Food for Thought topic we have as part of our Year 7 offering. Here's a recent example: A new campaign, launched last week by The Global FoodBanking Network, aims to draw attention to the links between food loss and waste, hunger and climate change – and the work food banks are doing to tackle all three.
Moler's Musing
OCTOBER 26, 2024
This week in Room 234 was packed with a mix of EduProtocols, hands-on activities, and a focus on understanding colonial tensions. From Sketch and Tell-O for visualizing British taxes on Monday to analyzing historic protests with 8 Parts and Cyber Sandwich later in the week, each day brought something new. We tackled the Boston Tea Party with Number Mania to dig into key details and wrapped up with an inquiry lesson on “having a voice in government.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 29, 2024
The post How My Students Turned a Challenge into an Opportunity for Innovation appeared first on Digital Promise.
Women's History Network
OCTOBER 28, 2024
What’s in a letter? For a woman living in England in the nineteenth century with limited access to social freedoms and even paper—everything. Historians have given mixed reviews on the value of Jane Austen’s surviving personal letters.
Living Geography
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Making Space for Sand is a project which has been working in Cornwall for several years now. It has been focussed on protecting the coastline and introducing some projects which are well advanced and are protecting communities in a sustainabe way. Take a look, particularly if you teach down in the part of the world.
Political Science Now
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Does Political Diversity Inhibit Blood Donations? By Sung Eun Kim , Korea University and Krzysztof Pelc , Oxford University Does political diversity affect the prevalence of selfless behavior across a society? According to a recurrent finding from the study of social capital, ethnic diversity reduces prosocial behavior. We ask whether the same applies to partisan identity, by turning to a frequently used proxy for social capital: blood donations.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 31, 2024
The post Full Steam Ahead with Badge Engine: Introducing Our New Open-Source Badging Technology appeared first on Digital Promise.
History Havoc
OCTOBER 27, 2024
I have decided to take a break from my Ph.D. and there are several reasons why. First of all, I am tired. It has been a long haul, and after this semester I will take an extended break. At this point I do not know if I will go back and finish. Perhaps one day. I have just come to the realization that while it is a goal of mine, I am missing out on many other things that I’d rather be doing.
Living Geography
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
“It’s actually quite a frightening place.” Tony Blair, 1997 King's Cross has been going through a long-term transformation. If you come out of the station and turn right you can make your way up towards Coal Drops Yard and the new location for Central St. Martins - where my wife studied when it was in its 'proper' location on Long Acre. A recent article in The Economist looks at the development that has taken place north of King's Cross.
Anthropology.net
OCTOBER 26, 2024
A recent groundbreaking study 1 in Nature reveals that two distinct types of Helicobacter pylori bacteria—called Hardy and Ubiquitous —have coexisted in the human stomach for over 200,000 years. This research shows that these bacteria not only survived but evolved alongside early humans as they migrated out of Africa, offering new insights into our species' diet and adaptation to different environments.
Political Science Now
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Censoring the Intellectual Public Space in China: What Topics Are Not Allowed and Who Gets Blacklisted? By Xiaojun Yan and La Li , University of Hong Kong Censorship is one of the main forms of political coercion deployed by modern states to control and regulate public expression. In this article, we examine the political censorship of China’s intellectual public space, which has long been underexplored.
Education Week - Social Studies
OCTOBER 27, 2024
Historical texts require students to weigh authors' bias, context, and audience.
Living Geography
OCTOBER 28, 2024
I posted recently about reaching a milestone on my GA Presidents' blog , and have now passed another small milestone on one of my other blogs. This one is the blog that I set up in 2010 when my first solo book was published. It formed part of the original series of KS3 Toolkit books which was funded by the Action Plan for Geography. As was (and still is) my liking for a pun, I titled it 'Look at it this way.' as it offered a way of looking at the landscape.
Society for Classical Studies
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Blog: Medea and Ariadne Reimagined: Honoring Martha Graham’s Deep Engagement with Greek Myth Nina Papathana… Mon, 10/28/2024 - 09:43
Life and Landscapes
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Reggie Van Stockum at the top of Cumberland Mountain on “The Rock at Eagles Bluff ,” overlooking Jonesboro, Tennessee in October 2024. (click the link or photo below to play my video!) Music and Video copyright 2024 by RVS all rights reserved.
Political Science Now
OCTOBER 30, 2024
APSA’s Centennial Center for Political Science & Public Affairs is accepting proposals for the APSA Pracademic Fellowship Program on a rolling basis. The Pracademic Fellowship Program aims to bridge the gap between academia and the world of practitioners by supporting mid-career faculty members to work in federal government agencies in the Washington, D.C. area.
ShortCutsTV
OCTOBER 31, 2024
What seems like half a lifetime (but was actually around 20 years) ago I posted a YouTube Trailer called What is Sociology that was part of a much longer 3-part film called Introducing Sociology. Since then the trailer’s garnered around 350,000 views and, as far as I can tell, the original film is no-longer available.
O-Level Geography
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Why is there a need to increase housing development in Singapore? What are the amenities which are included in the urban planning?
Living Geography
OCTOBER 29, 2024
A very useful GIS-style resource for those exploring tropical rainforests.
Stanford History Education Group
OCTOBER 29, 2024
What Makes Students (and the Rest of Us) Fall for AI Misinformation?
ShortCutsTV
OCTOBER 30, 2024
The latest in our Dynamic Learning series of films aimed at helping students improve how they study looks at something that most of us experience at one time or another: procrastination. Or as it’s technically known, “Putting stuff off ‘til tomorrow. Or maybe the day after. Sometime, anyway. No, definitely.
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