A Principal's Reflections
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
As my Aspire Change EDU consultant team and I visit classrooms on a routine basis, we strive to lead administrators, coaches, and teachers in reflecting on their practice using questioning techniques. The majority of these often revolve around engagement, and it is quickly realized that when students are compliant, it is because the adult is doing all the work or talking.
TeachThought
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
by TeachThought Staff In a world filled with noise, division, and endless demands on our attention, Wendell Berry’s poem The Peace of Wild Things offers a rare invitation: to step back and find solace in nature. ‘The Peace Of Wild Things,’ read slowly enough, can remind us of the deep, quiet refuge that exists in the natural world, beyond the reach of our everyday stress and anxieties.
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Passion for Social Studies
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Are you always searching for ways to make your lessons more engaging? Similarly, are you constantly trying to get students to be active in the thinking process? Honestly, both of these questions make teaching overwhelming! Teachers want students to enjoy school and be the ones thinking, but there is a lot to get through! There are so many standards and not enough time to teach everything.
The Effortful Educator
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Over a century of research and practical usage by teachers in the classroom speak to the positive benefits of retrieval practice on retention of information. (1) When learners put forth quality effort at recognition or recall of material, this often leads to an improved understanding of and ability to use content. But, it can sometimes be difficult to motivate students to invest in the more cognitively demanding efforts of retrieval practice instead of the ever-popular, yet less effective, metho
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Walberto Flores EdTech Coordinator, Highlands International School San Salvador Artificial intelligence has entered our classrooms — sometimes invited and other times not — leaving educators to ask essential questions about its implementation and impact. Teachers are exploring how AI can be used to redefine learning experiences, strengthen student-teacher relationships and support students as ethical AI users and creators.
C3 Teachers
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
I’ve been using the C3 Inquiry Design Model (IDM) for over a decade. Generally speaking, I’ve felt successful and have shared my best practices with others in the field. But despite my students’ success in producing rich products from their work on formative performance tasks, arguments, and taking informed actions, the sensory experience of walking into my classroom did not reflect the intellectual energy that I knew was pulsing in my students’ heads.
Digital Promise
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Through Socratic Circles, students are able to explore and experience how conflict creates space for their identities, interests, and perspectives.
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ED Surge
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Last year, I presented a paper on using technology in my Arabic class at the Ohio Foreign Language Association summer conference. At the end of my session, a Spanish language teacher opened the discussion by talking about students dismissing her work because it is not an essential subject in the state. This hurt her teaching time, and she wanted to know if I experienced the same phenomenon in my teaching career; without hesitation, I admitted to facing the same problem.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. — In less than 15 minutes, Michael Mariscal validated why a team of officials at Cal Poly Humboldt have spent more than three years trying to set up the first bachelor’s degree program at a maximum-security prison in California. At the end of a class in persuasive speaking, Mariscal was tasked with giving a presentation to highlight his personal growth.
Sapiens
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Archaeological evidence and Oral Histories show people in what is today Ghana lived sustainably for millennia—until European colonial powers and the widespread trade of enslaved people changed everything. ✽ It’s the year 2065. West Africa’s cool seasonal rains wake Abena. She rides her bike to work, where she pushes investment in cultivating insects as renewable protein sources.
Digital Promise
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
In California’s Central Valley, one innovative school district serves as a model for learner-led pathways, deep community involvement, and more.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Veteran multimedia producer and professor Lynn Rogoff has long experimented with ways to bring history alive for young people. So as she saw the rise of AI tools, she was quick to try them. In her latest film, “Bird Woman: Sacagawea,” viewers not only watch the story of Sacagawea — the young woman from the Soshone tribe who helped guide the Lewis and Clark Expedition back in 1804 — they can chat with her and ask questions about her life.
Teaching American History
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
When Deputy Provost Marshall Silas Soule left his home late in the evening of April 23, 1865, to investigate reports of gunfire, he did not know it would be his last day on earth. Perhaps he was thinking of Hersa, his wife of twenty-two days, as he patrolled the streets of Denver. Maybe he was rethinking his recent testimony before a Congressional committee investigating the Sand Creek Massacre in southeastern Colorado.
Sapiens
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
As moose populations multiply in the Southern Rocky Mountains, decision-makers are questioning whether the animals are endemic or invaders. Archaeology can offer answers—and potential solutions. ✽ Along the twisting roads of Rocky Mountain National Park, visitors periodically encounter a unique type of traffic jam. Tourists park perilously close to steep roadsides, standing on the asphalt with heavy digital cameras and phones, and aiming their lenses at a nearby critter.
Digital Promise
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
The post Designing With, Not For: How We Co-Designed a New Product Certification for Ethically Designed AI Tools appeared first on Digital Promise.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
In 2024, if you want to make a dinner reservation, you’re very likely to open an app on your phone, input a few details and then filter your results to see which restaurants have availability for your party size, date and time. If you want to find child care, on the other hand, good luck. In most states, you can visit a website and see a map of providers in your area, along with some basic information about them — ages served, operating hours, quality rating — but details about their enrollment
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
It breaks my heart when the costs of college-level textbooks are labeled as “junk fees.” Or, when people complain that today’s textbooks are “ overstuffed, chopped-up monstrosities ” that are boring and do little to advance student learning. Yet all this angst over textbooks misses these crucial facts: Textbooks provide a carefully curated body of knowledge.
Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 9, 2024
One of the most intriguing chapters in human evolution is the story of the Denisovans, a mysterious, now-extinct hominin group that left a significant genetic footprint in the DNA of modern humans. Initially discovered through a single finger bone in Siberia’s Denisova Cave, Denisovans are now known to have had a far-reaching impact on the genetic makeup of modern humans, particularly in populations across Asia and Oceania.
Digital Promise
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The post Micro-credentials on the Rise: National Policy Map Showcases New Developments appeared first on Digital Promise.
Strange Maps
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Deep in the Blue Mountains of Oregon lives what is possibly the largest, oldest, and heaviest living thing on Earth: a giant mushroom dubbed the Humongous Fungus. The word “possibly” didn’t weasel its way into the previous sentence by accident. Estimates of this organism’s extent, age, and weight vary hugely. On either end of the scale, though, the numbers are impressive.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
For too long, incoming students not deemed fully prepared to do college-level work have had to enter a remediation track intended to teach foundational concepts that institutions assume students haven’t learned yet. It is a logical premise with a significant flaw: This approach to remediation simply does not work. Institutions funnel hundreds of thousands of first-year students into math and English remedial courses every year, including 40 percent of students at public 2-year colleges.
Dr. Shannon Doak
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been heralded as a transformative force. I am one of the biggest proponents of this viewpoint! However, recently, I attended EDUTech Asia and have connected with many vendors. My recent interactions with these vendors at conferences and through social media reveals that many AI applications are merely reinforcing outdated pedagogical practices, particularly in areas like exam preparation.
Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Discovering Prehistoric Circles on Dartmoor Two newly identified Neolithic stone circles on Dartmoor, Devon, offer compelling evidence of a “sacred arc” of ceremonial monuments built in the region's rugged uplands. These discoveries, spearheaded by archaeologist and stained glass artist Alan Endacott, enrich the understanding of Dartmoor’s prehistoric significance and its parallels with renowned megalithic sites like Stonehenge.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
This story was originally published by EdNC.org. Unlike North Carolina’s K-12 schools or community colleges, child care programs aren’t consolidated under a public system. That makes it harder for early childhood programs to acquire funding and coordinate recovery from disasters such as Hurricane Helene, creating short- and long-term effects on children, families and communities.
Moler's Musing
NOVEMBER 9, 2024
This week focused on building a strong base for our Revolutionary War unit through EduProtocols and engaging activities. We used Gimkit rounds to reinforce key vocabulary, Thick Slides to explore foundational ideas like government’s role, and Brain-Book-Buddy-Boss for structured retrieval practice. Midweek, students independently analyzed the Declaration of Independence, paraphrasing and summarizing key passages.
Education Elements
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Change is a constant in public education. These changes range from shifts in student demographics, and associated learning needs, shifts in curriculum standards (think Common Core ), to broader shifts in public policy. Consider how Ly n don B. Johnson’s War on Poverty influenced how schools planned for meeting students’ nutritional needs , or the federal IDEA A ct , which requir ed public school systems to provide free and equitable education.
Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Uncovering Tool Use in Early Hominins A recent study 1 into the hand bones of Australopithecus afarensis — the species that includes the famous "Lucy" — suggests that early hominins may have been adept at using tools more than 3 million years ago. Researchers from the University of Tübingen have found that australopithecine hands exhibited the necessary muscle attachments for complex object manipulation.
Digital Promise
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
The post How My Students Overcame Obstacles and Sparked Enthusiasm for STEM appeared first on Digital Promise.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
With a new school year now in full swing, educators are in a bind. They want to implement innovative edtech tools in the classroom but don’t necessarily have the time to research and evaluate solutions before procurement and classroom implementation. Enter the concept of curated online marketplaces — a potential game-changer in the edtech landscape.
Steven V. Miller
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The EU signed an emergency free trade agreement with Ukraine in 2022 that it extended in 2024. (Hassan Ammar/AP) Yeah, I know. Hear me out. I’m co-teaching a second-level methods sequence at the bachelor’s level right now whose aim is to introduce students to some basic research methods (both qualitative and quantitative). The course itself occurs entirely within a month or so and has just 10 meetings, two of which pertain to quantitative methods.
Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
A new discovery 1 of 12,000-year-old perforated stones at the Nahal Ein Gev II site in northern Israel may represent some of the earliest spindle whorls — tools used to spin fibers into thread for textiles. These stones, excavated by researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, reveal early examples of rotational tools, predating the invention of the wheel by thousands of years.
Living Geography
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Booking is now open for the annual Geography Teacher Educators' Conference. After an excellent event at last year's York venue, this year it is being hosted by St. Mary's University in Twickenham in South London. It is organised with the support of the GA but is independent from the GA. The GTE Conference is being held at St Mary's University, Twickenham from the afternoon of Friday 24th - Sunday 26th Jan at lunchtime.
Society for Classical Studies
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
CFP: Verses from a Campanian Tomb? Vergil and Silius Italicus’ Punica kskordal Wed, 11/13/2024 - 14:20 Image Verses from a Campanian Tomb? Vergil and Silius Italicus’ Punica 8–11 October, 2025 —Cuma, Italy: Villa Vergiliana Co-organized by Antony Augoustakis and Clayton Schroer Joseph Wright of Derby was no literary critic, but when he committed oil to canvas in the late 18th century, he unwittingly prophesied a reality faced by scholars of Silius Italicus today.
Life and Landscapes
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
In Surrounding Fort Knox, Including Southern Indiana, Van Stockum indulges his readers (and himself) with a 730 page wander through multiple counties on the Kentucky and Indiana shores of the Ohio River, and even into the Kentucky interior. He astutely pairs unique tales of historical peoples with informative discussions of the landforms and waterways that make this area enticing to visit and explore.
Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Neanderthal Discovery in Arbreda Cave In the Arbreda de Serinyà cave near Banyoles, Catalonia, archaeologists uncovered six Neanderthal teeth, some dating back over 120,000 years. This discovery offers a rare glimpse into the lives of Homo neanderthalensis across distinct periods, enriching our understanding of their evolutionary journey and interactions with their environment.
Living Geography
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
A cross posting from my ' Geography in/on Film' blog. I went to see Martin Scorsese's documentary on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger' s films recently. It is called Made in England. There are quite a few films that they created which are in my top ten list. They include 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' and 'A Canterbury Tale'. Not seen that one?
Institute for Citizens & Scholars
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
The post University of Pittsburgh hosts a conversation on the role of universities in civic preparedness appeared first on Institute for Citizens & Scholars.
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