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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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.
Institute for Citizens & Scholars
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
This blog series explores three projects inspired by the Mapping Civic Measurement report, examining how we can redefine “citizenship” in a modern context.
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.
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
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Digital Promise
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
The post How My Students Overcame Obstacles and Sparked Enthusiasm for STEM appeared first on Digital Promise.
Anthropology News
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Grafting ethnography onto journalism has been suggested for decades—it’s time to put it into practice. “Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. “Yet, the social science with perhaps the most to offer budding journalists, anthropology, has often been excluded from the chosen courses.
Life and Landscapes
NOVEMBER 9, 2024
“The Civil War in Kentucky” is a 10-part series recently published in my Journey Log entitled “Surrounding Fort Knox, including Southern Indiana.” It deals primarily with the Central Kentucky Theater. I present it here as a series of individual blogs for my readers. Links to the previously published chapters will be provided at the end of each blog.
Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Introduction: Uncovering Ancient Childhoods The long, extended childhood characteristic of modern humans may trace its roots further back than previously thought, according to new research. Using advanced X-ray imaging to analyze the teeth of a young Homo individual from the Dmanisi site in Georgia, researchers have revealed 1 a pattern of delayed, humanlike dental development followed by a growth spurt more typical of apes.
Geography Teacher Sharing
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Love the Geography symposium as the fraternity came together to share good practices which allow students to see the world through the geographical lens, developing observation skills, analysing trends, and understanding world issues. So honoured to hear from the Keynote speaker, Mrs Margaret Roberts, author of Geography through enquiry. Last attended her workshop on geographical inquiry in 2010.
Political Science Now
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
As part of an ongoing series examining Contributions of Scholars of Color , the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a a second set of oral history interviews during the 2024 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting held in Los Angeles, California. This collection of interviews contributes to a continuous project that seeks to amplify the scholarship and the contributions of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to the profession and investigate t
Living Geography
NOVEMBER 9, 2024
British farming has been in the news a lot recently. There are concerns over the state of the industry and the possible impact on future food security and the state of the UK's landscape - much of which is in the stewardship of farmers - whether working as tenant farmers or otherwise. Farmers were viewed as essential workers during the pandemic, but they have since been treated less positively by government, who don't seem to appreciate the problems we are creating for ourselves because of decis
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.
Geography Teacher Sharing
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Explored Batam Pantai Sekoto Beachfront area to learn about the mangrove in this area as part of the field study for Geography Symposium 2025. The programme was hosted by a member from Free the Sea – part of the WIK Group. We looked into the impact of coastal erosion as well as the effects of the loss of this mangrove area. Local outreach and education programme to get the locals to be aware of the damage of the mangrove ecosystem and the mangrove restoration as well as replanting programme.
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.
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 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.
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.
Living Geography
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Go here for more details on an IoE seminar that is taking place in December. Organised by Alex Standish. I was asked to go along and speak but I can't make it. However, you can hear some GA speakers and also Catherine Souch from the RGS.
Political Science Now
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
A Global Analysis of Transgender Rights: Introducing the Trans Rights Indicator Project (TRIP) By Myles Williamson , University of Alabama To what extent do countries protect the rights of transgender people? How does this differ from legal protections countries offer sexual orientation minorities? What conditions are beneficial for advancing trans rights?
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