TeachThought
JANUARY 20, 2024
Dewey believed that learning was socially constructed and that brain-based pedagogy should emphasize active, experiential learning. The post The Pedagogy Of John Dewey: A Summary appeared first on TeachThought.
Cult of Pedagogy
JANUARY 21, 2024
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A Psychology Teacher Writes
JANUARY 21, 2024
I’ve been an instructional coach for nearly four years now; while I certainly don’t think I’ve got it cracked yet and would not consider myself an expert, I think I’ve learned a huge amount since starting and want to share some of those reflection here. I’ve written previously about this here and here where I’ve talked about some of the mechanics of coaching.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 23, 2024
The post How Do You Find Edtech Tools that Take Educator Expertise Seriously? appeared first on Digital Promise.
ED Surge
JANUARY 24, 2024
One morning, my students were getting ready for a math test and working through a set of review problems. For many of them, the biggest challenges weren’t the questions on the paper in front of them, but their ability to attend to it. As I checked in with one student who appeared to be working quietly, it turned out he had carefully solved the first problem, only to write guesses down for the rest.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 22, 2024
Educators have long debated the best way to teach, especially the subjects of science and math. One side favors direct instruction, where teachers tell students what they need to know or students read it from textbooks. Some call it explicit or traditional instruction. The other side favors inquiry, where students conduct experiments and figure out the answers themselves like a scientist would.
Marginal Revolution
JANUARY 24, 2024
1) From the recent annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (abstract 6949) we learn that the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine maintained it’s efficacy over 4 seasons. …Importantly, maintained high efficacy over four malaria seasons with only four doses is demonstrated, with no concerns to date of rebound in those who have not received repeated booster doses of the malaria vaccine.
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ED Surge
JANUARY 26, 2024
I’ve been a school social worker for the last 15 years, so I am acutely aware of our nation’s mounting youth mental health crisis. I know that robust mental health and social-emotional support for students are non-negotiable in education and I applaud the new programs and resources designed to address this urgent challenge for our students. But what about the mental health of our educators?
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 26, 2024
FAYETTEVILLE, Ohio — Ghosts populate the campus of Chatfield College. They’re in the fading photos on the library walls of students who, over 177 years, attended the college and the boarding school from which it sprang, and of the Ursuline nuns who taught them, in their simple tunics and scapulars. Amid seemingly endless acres of tobacco, soybean and wheat farms in a village in southwest Ohio with a population of 241 , the now-closed college sits at the end of a narrow entrance road flanked by B
World History Teachers Blog
JANUARY 21, 2024
Here is an excellent essay by the historian, Peter Frankopan, for AEON Magazine about the significance of silk from its accidental development in China to its use as a "symbol of extravagance and decadence" in Afro-Eurasia. It's a great story and the excerpts are for great for the classroom.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 25, 2024
Evaluating the effectiveness of instructional strategies requires a holistic approach and goes beyond data.
ED Surge
JANUARY 24, 2024
Sabrina Colon, a first-year student at University of California, Merced, remembers when math first became a problem. She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math classes without too much trouble, earning Cs. But in college, where she’s a business major, calculus is proving insurmountable. It’s given her severe anxiety.
Sapiens
JANUARY 24, 2024
In a California gym, people living with Parkinson’s practice noncontact boxing to redefine their experience of the disease and maintain a sense of self. ✽ The smell of Thai food came wafting into the boxing gym from a restaurant across the street. Located in downtown San Diego, the gym storefront’s two large garage doors were rolled open, letting sunshine and breeze spill into the open space.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 24, 2024
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: The pandemic underscored the stark differences in pay, working conditions, and respect between K-12 educators and child care teachers in ma
Digital Promise
JANUARY 23, 2024
The post How We Created an Eco-Justice Fashion Show Driven by STEM and Innovation appeared first on Digital Promise.
ED Surge
JANUARY 24, 2024
If you’re reading this, you might have AI anxiety. A recent survey from EY research shows that 71 percent of employees with knowledge of artificial intelligence are concerned about it. Considering how AI has rapidly entered education conversations, teachers and administrators are certainly represented in this statistic. Feelings of AI anxiety are valid for a technology that brings so much change and uncertainty.
Marginal Revolution
JANUARY 21, 2024
I am pleased to have spoken at their yearly conference yesterday. If I understand them correctly (here is their web site ), it is for elite college students — grad and undergrad — at Harvard, MIT, Stanford and the rest of the Ivies. No other schools.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 23, 2024
There are few topics in college access and higher education that inspire as much conviction from opposing sides as standardized tests. Over the last few years, many people have come to believe that such tests are at the root of education inequity. Opponents of tests have argued that removing tests from college admissions is the primary way to expand access.
Sapiens
JANUARY 25, 2024
Breakthrough treatments can now cure sickle cell anemia in the U.S. But the pricey therapies will hardly help in Nigeria, where social changes could do more for millions impacted by the disease. “DON’T PLAY WITH HER! SHE HAS SICKLE CELL” On a sunny day in Southern Nigeria, my uncle and aunt took their children to the hospital. Because their daughter had suffered swollen joints and body pains for months, a doctor advised genetic testing.
ED Surge
JANUARY 23, 2024
Riley Campbell isn’t one of those aspiring educators who always dreamed of leading her own classroom or who played school with her friends growing up. For a while, she actually thought she might go into the hospitality industry — and pursued a related career and technical education (CTE) pathway at her high school. But a series of unexpected events led her to reconsider her plans.
Marginal Revolution
JANUARY 21, 2024
There is: Poor Things The Delinquents [Los Delincuentes], from Argentina, tragicomedy. The Teacher’s Lounge All of Us Strangers Anselm 3-D The Zone of Interest Of course many of those came out in their respective foreign markets before 2024, but that is not the point. Rather it seems cinema has turned a corner and is vital and original again (though not culturally central?).
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 22, 2024
Our students are struggling. As a college president and a clinical psychologist, I know this well. Recent headlines tell a distressing story about the mental health of college students. While the news articles are alarming, it is worth noting that much of the data they cite comes from self-reporting by students. This self-reporting gives us important insights into how our students are feeling, but it is not equivalent to clinical diagnoses.
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 21, 2024
Teōtīhuacān, often dubbed the "birthplace of the gods," stands as a testament to ancient Mesoamerican brilliance. Nestled in the Teotihuacan Valley of Mexico, this archaeological marvel has now divulged its genetic secrets, thanks to a groundbreaking study. Image Credit : Shutterstock Teōtīhuacān's Evolution: From Phase I to the Metropolis The city's evolution unfolded in four distinctive phases—Teōtīhuacān I, II, III, and IV—commencing ar
ED Surge
JANUARY 26, 2024
If you build it, will it work? And how will you measure it? Those are vital questions for education technology innovators as they build ventures, secure funding and expand their impact. In a crowded marketplace with fierce competition for scarce dollars, savvy entrepreneurs embrace research to inspire, hone and scale their businesses. Catalyst @ Penn GSE, a global center for education innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, is passionate about supporting education entrepreneurs.
Marginal Revolution
JANUARY 23, 2024
A point I tried to make on our Politix episode with Will Stancil is that progressive-minded people — and particularly progressive-minded media figures — have a certain ideological investment in the promotion of bad vibes. Younger left-wing people are notably more depressed than politically conservative ones, which may be partially selection effect, but I think is driven by the fact that so much progressive messaging about the world is marked by negativity and doomerism.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 25, 2024
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: When ChatGPT burst into the world at the end of 2022, the prevailing feelings in higher education circles were fear of students cheating
Institute for Citizens & Scholars
JANUARY 26, 2024
Citizens & Scholars gathered university presidents from College Presidents for Civic Preparedness for an annual convening at Howard University on January 19-21, 2024.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 23, 2024
Note: In 2007–2008, the author was the principal investigator for an NSF-funded study of Taumako voyaging. This incident occurred toward the end of 2008. Waves were breaking over the gunwales of our dugout canoes. We were tired and preparing to call it a night. Luck had not been on our side. I’d spent seven months on Taumako, a Polynesian outcropping in the southeastern Solomon Islands.
Marginal Revolution
JANUARY 20, 2024
Adrian Wooldridge has an excellent Bloomberg column on this topic, promoting the relevance of Thomas Mann, and here is one excerpt: In the book [Magic Mountain], Castorp falls in with two intellectuals who live in the village of Davos below his sanitorium: an Italian humanist called Lodovico Settembrini and a Jewish-born cosmopolitan called Leo Naphta who is drawn to the Communist revolution and traditional Catholicism.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 24, 2024
For International Day of Education, Digital Promise reflects on how we’re promoting powerful learning that leads to well-being and fulfillment.
ShortCutsTV
JANUARY 22, 2024
A quick’n’dirty overview of the Interactionist perspective on crime and deviance. Two ideas closely associated with Interactionist approaches are those of deviance as both relative and socially constructed. Relativity refers to the idea that the same behaviour can be considered deviant in one context (or society) but non-deviant in another.
Ben Newmark
JANUARY 23, 2024
Adam Boxer has annoyed me. His most recent blog post unpick s the issues caused by unwise group level announcements and I found it challenging. A lot of what he identified as problems is present in my teaching, and it made me see there are issues I didn’t know I had. That’s annoying because it requires a response. Here’s a few things I say to classes in lessons and the reasons that aren’t necessary.
Marginal Revolution
JANUARY 21, 2024
Let us say you favor policy X, and take steps to see that policy X comes about. Under many conditions, people who favor non-X will take additional countervailing steps to oppose X. And in that case your actions in favor of X, on average, will lead to nothing. In the meantime, you and also your opponents will have wasted material resources fighting over X.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 25, 2024
As Digital Promise’s pilot work in Haiti continues into its second year, our partners reflect on lessons learned.
ShortCutsTV
JANUARY 23, 2024
A short overview of Feminist perspectives on crime and deviance combining a bit of text with quite a lot of video.
Ben Newmark
JANUARY 26, 2024
This is part 2 of 5. Part 1 – Inclusion is a contiuum – can be found here. There are myths about how children learn which make inclusion appear hard for teachers to do. Some believe because children learn in very different ways, inclusive mainstream classrooms must mean lots of different children doing different things. This belief was at its peak when VAK learning styles were in vogue, and while these have been for the most part driven out of education the underpinning beliefs remai
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 23, 2024
Embracing Our Neanderthal Roots In a fascinating twist of evolutionary history, a recent study 1 challenges our understanding of the relationship between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. The commonly held belief that we diverged from our heavy-browed cousins around 500,000 to 650,000 years ago is being reconsidered. The latest estimate proposes a much more recent split, just 408,000 years ago, suggesting a far more intimate connection than previously thought.
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