ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This post will describe the importance of having secondary students engage in oral history projects and describe a new Artificial Intelligence technology StoryFile that can help students practice posing questions to pre-recorded conversational video without the heightened anxiety that comes with actually talking to a real person.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2022

Her classes involved lessons on Black history and women’s history, as well as wide-ranging conversations about was happening in the world. Many of Kaler-Jones’ students — most of them Black — weren’t taught about important Black figures or positive history lessons from a non-white perspective in school.

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Oral History History Pedagogy Lesson Plan 143

HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Story File is ideal for helping students practice asking interview questions and conducting oral history projects. Imagine an Alexa that helps your students interview any historical figure living or dead? Try Story File and watch your students improve their speaking and listening skills. Class Companion.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

The problem is combining the two at once, according to “ Specifying Hybrid Models of Teachers’ Work During COVID-19 ,” published online in the peer-reviewed journal, Educational Researcher, in January 2022. One high school history teacher in a Florida city described juggling three devices in the study. “I teaching work force.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Thankfully, we have records of past Afro-descendant entrepreneurs through both written and oral histories. As an anthropologist, I understand that reflection upon one’s positionality is an important part of the research and writing process. Turning one’s gaze south, the works of historian Michael L.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 13, 2024

Indigenous Knowledge and Science Unite Recent research has reshaped our understanding of when horses were reintroduced to North America. The Broader Implications Some Indigenous oral histories suggest interactions with horses date back thousands of years to Ice Age equines.

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Ancestry Oral History Archaeology Artifacts 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Children can also collect and publish oral histories about a place. To understand what Sustainability is all about, consider the words of author and researcher John R. Distinguishing weather from climate is a good foundational step. They can test water and soil, plant trees, compost and build soil fertility.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 7, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. Milliff’s research focus is on Indian Sikhs’ actions during the anti-Sikh pogrom in North India during the 1980s. American Political Science Review , 1–19.

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Research Oral History Political Science Archiving 52

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Hamilton was of the first African Americans to hold an endowed chair at an Ivy League university, Hamilton focused his research on urban politics and the Civil Rights movement. Hamilton was a private and modest man and was “concerned about what would and would not happen upon his passing.” Hamilton , Columbia University Magazine Charles V.

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Oral History Political Science Government History 56

ASHP CML

OCTOBER 11, 2022

This summer thirty middle and high school teachers from throughout the United States joined the ASHP/CML for a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Summer Institute on LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States. The institute introduced the rich body of recent scholarship covering the span of U.S.

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History Oral History Archiving Cultures 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In history, students might pick historical characters and analyze major events of their era from the character’s perspective. It’s hard to hear above the two dozen students in Charles Willis’s class The History of Revere, which looks at how the community, first settled in the 1630s, has changed over time.

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Teaching Oral History High School Sociology 111

Anthropology.net

MARCH 27, 2024

Situated in the southeastern Pacific, Rapa Nui, more commonly known as Easter Island, has long captivated scholars with its enigmatic history and iconic moai statues. By examining obsidian blades excavated from the Anakena site, researchers sought to elucidate the dietary habits and cultural connections of the island's early inhabitants.

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Oral History Archaeology History Cultures 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

Research shows that whether students finish high school is largely determined by their first year. Research suggests the schedule can smooth the transition to high school and boost graduation rates by minimizing the number of transitions students experience and build stronger student-teacher relationships.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 11, 2024

The research, published in Quaternary Science Reviews 1 , describes the discovery of nearly 100 pottery fragments, some dating back up to 3,000 years. Oral histories from local Indigenous communities corroborate accounts of pottery production and trading traditions, further supporting the cultural significance of the discovery.

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Oral History Archaeology Artifacts Cultures 52

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

On Rusinga Island, a grassroots group is celebrating the field assistants who helped find famous fossils and inspiring future generations to study science and ancient history. The group shares information about the islands ancient history and the role of local collaborators in discovering that heritage.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The other thing I try to do is a lot of role plays for social studies and history. The kids have all been researching extreme weather and the end of the unit asks them to do further research, called research with an agenda. I dont know what effect it will have but its something I try to weave into all disciplines.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The CUNY Digital History Archive is now recruiting volunteer researchers to join our project team. Research and Editorial Board The editorial team reviews new collections and assists with research and writing, identifies relevant archival materials and works with collection curators to contextualize primary sources.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2017

Vermont Performance Lab is a nonprofit arts organization that supports the arts and Vermont’s rural communities through artist residencies that link artists’ creative research and community engagement. A recent project explored the radical movements of the late 20 th century.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. How do you take really amazing academic research and turn it into social information, public knowledge?"

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