The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

One even said she had “never wanted to learn history’’ before. A high school teacher who shared feedback on the project said, “The VR brings history to life in a really different way.”. The teachers believe that the hands-on, independent nature of virtual reality will bring reluctant students to the study of history.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. government as well.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

We engaged in a collaborative project based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) designed to explore how AI tools might support undergraduate learning in anthropology. In the final stage of the project, students situated medical AI tools in a broader social and economic context.

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. In other words, that’s what they expected to see in a high-functioning social studies class. Question Two) — is most appropriately addressed by interpreting primary sources. I noticed something strange, however.

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