Sapiens

APRIL 1, 2025

Check out these related resources: The Fruits of Extraction Zaculeu, Guatemala: reflexiones y propuestas para un retorno local Zaculeu, fortaleza mam Facebook page Conquest and Revival at Chiantla Viejo: The Transition of a Highland Maya Community to Spanish Colonial Rule SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is produced by Written In Air.

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Sapiens

APRIL 22, 2025

A Multinational, Multiethnic Alternative in Chile’s Migrant Settlements 221 Politicians, 23 Journalists, and Six Human Rights Activists Detained Since the Presidential Elections SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is produced by Written In Air. Is One Third of Venezuelas Population About to Flee?

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2023

Observation comment library Writing up observations can be a tedious process. Personalized feedback AI can generate human-like responses tailored to individuals' specific needs and preferences. With AI as a leadership tool, time will be freed up so you can be more human.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

An anthropologist unpacks what shifting attitudes toward these birds reveal about humans. But many species have traveled across the globe throughout human history, including as part of human trade and migration patterns, and not all of them are seen as problematic. The birds, which looked to me like parrots, were hard to miss.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 28, 2016

“Libraries are safe places. That’s why I come here to learn,” says Christine, a student at one of Chicago Public Library’s (CPL) Learning Circles. The result: among the many other roles CPL plays in Chicago, the library is quickly becoming a kind of community school for basic computer skills.

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NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Virginia History, AP Human Geography, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, and AP U.S. My students weren’t used to the human aspect of their math and science classes, but I watched the conflict on their faces as this woman’s troubled history helped them understand why history is so important. It’s about understanding humanity.”

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

(c1903 from photo taken on May 16, 1861) Library of Congress. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. All this is not the result of accident. It has a philosophical cause.

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Sapiens

APRIL 8, 2025

Dozandris research has been supported by a Society for Visual Anthropology/Lemelson Foundation Fellowship, the Duberman-Zal Fellowship from the Center for LGBTQ+ Studies, and grants from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The big danger, he argues in his book, is that autocorrect and other AI algorithms are altering our lives so much that humans will act more like, say, Twitter bots, rather than Twitter bots acting more like humans. Smith lays out his views in a new book, “ The Internet is Not What You Think It is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning.”

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Anthropology.net

MAY 16, 2024

The study 1 of ancient DNA has led to a groundbreaking discovery: the remnants of three common human viruses within the bones of Neanderthals who roamed the Earth over 50,000 years ago. DAYNES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Read more Neanderthals were affected by some of the same viruses as modern humansS. ENTRESSANGLE/E.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

As dean of the College of University Libraries and Learning Services at the University of New Mexico, I lead a team of over 120 faculty and staff members. Understanding the Psyche of Technological Resistance in the Education Workforce Resistance to change, especially technological change , is fundamentally anchored in our human psychology.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2016

The child care resource library in this small town is housed in what residents call “the purple awning building.” Officials from Human Services say the decision to close the Early Years Network is purely financial. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz. This article is the 13th in a series investigating the child care system in Mississippi.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Nsai Temko pictured in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in Squirrel Hill. He told me about an awesome teen space at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh’s Oakland section. Using the transportation funds from my sister, I convinced my mother to allow me to go to the library. “If In the library, I met a librarian named Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2025

We didn’t use to have to decide if our students were human, they were all people. But for many community college teachers, particularly those who teach online courses, the influx of bot students has changed what it means to be a teacher, said Eric Maag, who has taught at Southwestern for 21 years.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

While that is an incredibly humbling offer and my typically introverted nature might resist, I will most likely accept because I think it will elevate the people in the photos and celebrate them not only as skilled educators, but as the works of art they are as individual human beings. And I would like them to have that. Now, it’s your turn.

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Sapiens

APRIL 29, 2025

She also details how a former excavationist remembers discovering human remains at the DMZ. Check out these related resources: You and the Atom Bomb Echolocation The Korean War Mixed Graves SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is produced by Written In Air. Her research has been funded by Fulbright and the Korea Foundation.

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Sapiens

MARCH 25, 2025

For the eighth season of the SAPIENS podcast, were meeting at a crossroads of culturespast and presentin search of humanitys collective destination. Through the lens of anthropology, we will examine what happens when human cultures meet, merge, and clashand what these encounters reveal about humanitys shared fate.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

It’s framed around this driving question: How are humans impacting the Earth from an environmental biology perspective? You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 15, 2018

My colleague Chad sees those opportunities through an edu-entrepreneurial lens, always looking at what learning need isn’t being met and how to shape a response to the human needs inside our schools; in doing so, it shifts power from teacher to learners.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 8, 2024

When product developers at UPchieve, a nonprofit that connects students with free math tutoring powered by human volunteers, began evaluating AI tools to power a system for forecasting student performance, they expected to find serious problems with bias. Check out last week’s post here.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 18, 2024

Her area of expertise is human learning and memory, and applying the science of learning in educational contexts. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading. Come back for more.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2020

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library was one of the book giveaway programs that obtained “impressive” results for early childhood literacy in a May 2020 analysis by international researchers. Imagination Library, launched by American country music star Dolly Parton, mails a new book a month from birth to age 5.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

The novel being annotated is The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer Discussion and Feedback Students wrap up and review their annotations. Circulate and observe each group , helping students deepen their thinking by asking questions and making connections between the annotations. Come back for more.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 4, 2025

With its focus on the Hellenic world, the collection contains materials from antiquity to the present across the social sciences and humanities relating to Greece, its neighboring countries, and the surrounding region. There is a broad representation of languages in the collection, with a rich assortment of primary source materials.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

It did the coding equivalent of going viral, with more than 7,500 people liking the project on the code library GitHub. And if it works, the project raises a host of existential questions about what role human researchers — the workforce that powers much of higher education — would play in the future. And plenty of people have.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. In addition to this partnership, assessors were recruited from national library leaders participating in the Lilead Fellows program.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2016

It combines aspects of high-tech coding and engineering with an emphasis on human-centered design and problem-solving. More than 300 middle and high school students, teachers and supporters from across New York City gathered at the New York Public Library on June 11 for the event. I knew a little but I had to learn more.

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Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 7, 2024

National Humanities Center Residential Fellowships 2025–2026 kskordal Wed, 08/07/2024 - 08:35 Image National Humanities Center Residential Fellowships 2025–2026 Call for Applications The National Humanities Center invites applications for academic-year or one-semester residential fellowships.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2020

The lesson featured two art historians, a microbiologist, a writing specialist, the library director and me, a historian in sports studies. The modules cover remarkable ground: Humanity and Natural Disasters; Intersections of Social Media & Science; Pandemics, Inequality and the Environment; and Coping & Caring for our Communities.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Benefits of Primary Sources: Humanizing History With primary sources, students as young as kindergarten age can grasp difficult concepts and glean meaning from past events. Some of the greatest tools that we have in our online library are audio and video recordings. The primary source.

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Living Geography

MARCH 7, 2025

New in my library is a book exploring the legacy we will leave behind for future occupants of the planet to find. Description by publishers: What will remain of our plastic, cans, and other junk long after humans have vanished? which is looking increasingly likely at the moment.

Geography 52

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Unlike other popular math practice sites, such as Khan Academy, IXL or ALEKS, in which a computer controls the content, ASSISTments keeps the control levers with the teachers, who pick the questions they like from a library of 200,000. Teachers are restricted to the math problems that Heffernan’s team has uploaded to the ASSISTments library.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

This act required integration in employment, retail businesses and restaurants, and public facilities like libraries, parks and museumsas well as schools. I was only dimly aware that my father served on the local Human Relations Committee. Might those white parents whose children drew black teachers complain?

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

Nashville Public Library. American Job Center (via Mid Cumberland Human Resource Agency). Nashville Public Library. In 2014, the Nashville Public Library Foundation approached local adult education providers to form a learning group that could collectively envision strategies to improve services for learners. Begin Anew.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 25, 2020

The Kansas City Coalition for Digital Inclusion , for instance, coordinated the efforts of local organizations, including the public library system, transportation authorities, nonprofits, and private industry, to provide emergency connectivity and technology to students and families in need.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2021

But many of them aren’t from humans. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is being used to shoot off these seemingly personal appeals and deliver pre-written information through chatbots and text personas meant to mimic human banter. AI grading “does it better, more quickly and probably making fewer errors than humans.”

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