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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A just-under-the-surface skepticism about the usefulness of a humanities degree as job preparation. What can’t you do with a humanities degree?” Earnings Disparities : Except in a few northwestern states, humanities majors earn at least 40 percent more than people with only a high school degree. Drawing on data from the U.S.

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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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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

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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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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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. Theres nothing like one-to-one interaction with a human being, Perez says. BROWNSVILLE, Texas Its nearly 5 p.m. on a Friday, and Dolores S. Shes also one of the people having the most fun. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Perez, known as Ms.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Many of the programs affected are in the humanities and languages, making those disciplines less available to rural students than they are to urban and suburban ones. In all, more than 25 programs have now been eliminated there, many of them in the humanities. But students and faculty say it was still important to offer them.

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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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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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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.

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Geography Library Humanities 52

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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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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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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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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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As a social Darwinist, Schaaffhasuen believed various races represented different stages in a linear progression of human evolution. Figuier, a creationist, viewed Neanderthals as humans like us—manifested by a Biblical God on the sixth day of creation. Keith’s nearly European Neanderthal figured into human history.

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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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ED Surge

MAY 19, 2023

Perkins, an associate professor of technology education, has a background in library science and art education. They can be stationary in a library or classroom, or they can be mobilized with carts that can be wheeled from room to room. Duenyas, an associate professor of counselor education, is a former teacher and certified counselor.

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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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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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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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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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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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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

He looked over the rims of his glasses at my History 410 class gathered in one of the well-appointed reading rooms in the Thompson Library at The Ohio State University. The caveat was that we could only use the resources in the library. He passed out copies of the image to each member of the class. The room went silent. No internet.

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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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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

In my role as school librarian, for example, it has affected everything from the library checkout schedule to my collaboration with teachers and even my direct interaction with students. As students returned to the library in person, many seemed lost when it came to choosing books. Jemisin, just to name a few. They never leave.

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