Anthropology.net

MARCH 15, 2025

The human skeleton has long been a resource for science, offering insights into disease, migration, and evolution. Credit: Boris Hamer from Pexels A Legacy of Exploitation For centuries, human remains have been collected, often without consent, to serve scientific and medical purposes.

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TeachThought

JULY 20, 2024

Strategies for Teaching AI Concepts Without Technology by TeachThought Staff Preface: This post is primarily for general content-area K-12 teachers (likely 6-12). Teaching AI theory, for example, is well beyond these ideas. How you teach something depends, obviously, on what you’re teaching. Let’s take a look.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms. Weve all been there.

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Teaching Charter School Social Studies Geography 137

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

The director of education at the Learning Disabilities Association of America weighed in, as did the commissioner of special education research at the U.S. We are always working towards supporting peoples understanding of inclusion as a human right and not as an intervention or variable in a research study. Taylor emailed me.

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Research Education Psychology Human Rights 123

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 30, 2021

The key is to not only rely on this teaching technique as it mainly focuses on providing information and modeling as opposed to active learning. Research shows how students learn best, and it's not by talking at them for extended periods. Create opportunities for students to teach each other. Find ways to include novelty.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2024

Thompson’s voice-activated assistant is the brainchild of computer scientist Satya Nitta, who founded a company called Merlyn Mind after many years at IBM where he had tried, and failed, to create an AI tool that could teach students directly. Despite Watson’s gameshow success, however, it wasn’t much good at teaching students.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Teaching is intense, vulnerable work. We can look at student data and try new instructional strategies all day long, but until we learn to navigate all of these complex feelings, the work of improving our teaching will always be limited at best. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org?

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Marilyn Price Mitchell shared the following in an article for Edutopia: Research has since established resilience as essential for human thriving and an ability necessary for the development of healthy, adaptable young people.

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Project-Based Learning Humanities Cultures Teaching 527

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 24, 2020

During my years as a teacher and principal, I would spend countless hours planning, researching, and attending professional learning events to hone my craft in order to become a better educator. We can now teach each other and learn something we previously had no knowledge of through diverse expertise anywhere, anytime, and from anyone.

Geography 545

Geography Humanities Cultures Professional Development 545

Edthena

MARCH 25, 2025

Edthena is proud to announce our collaboration with researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Albany on an AI-based multi-modal neural network project funded by the Gates Foundation. Reliable and research-validated AI-powered feedback for math instruction is coming soon! This project builds on proven research.

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Research Professional Development Humanities Elementary School 64

Political Science Now

DECEMBER 18, 2024

An Examination of the Transformative Effect of Learning by Teaching Method in Human Rights Education By Defne Gnay , and Zahide Melis zn llolu , Yaar University, This study aims to examine the impact of participatory methodologies employed in human rights education on enhancing individuals learning and awareness regarding human rights issues.

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Human Rights Humanities Political Science Teaching 45

Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

For anyone who has been teaching anthropology over the last two years, the latter will be of no surprise to you. (As As for the former, perhaps someone who has been teaching thirty years can weigh in were students always so careless? Does the teaching environment itself contribute to how students view AI? 2022, among many).

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Anthropology Sociology Cultures Educational Technology 130

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. Liljedahl has developed a strategy for teaching that he says greatly improves how many students in a class are actually thinking about course material.

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Research Teaching Pedagogy Elementary School 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2024

Two University of California, Berkeley, researchers documented how they tamed AI hallucinations in math by asking ChatGPT to solve the same problem 10 times. At least a teacher has the opportunity to vet what AI spits out before giving or teaching it to students. Researchers grouped similar answers together.

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Research Tutoring Lesson Plan High School 141

Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

They wrote about Abena—and Akaina, a young girl in Eastern Africa living 3,000 years from today—to help teach K–12 students about possibilities for a sustainable future. To imagine those futures, the scholars resurrected sustainable lifestyles of the past known from archaeological research and African Oral Histories.

Oral History 141

Oral History Archaeology Heritage History 141

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Research in economics and psychology shows that these tests fail to measure key traits like perseverance, motivation and conscientiousness qualities that strongly predict long-term success. The obsession reflects a broader issue in education research itself. What role do families play?

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Economics Psychology Education Policy Humanities 115

Sapiens

DECEMBER 11, 2024

It is no small task for academics to transform their research and experiences into pieces that are evocative, insightful, and persuasive. Human Rights Archived Haints By Alma Simba SAPIENS 2024 poet-in-residence conjures the voices of those imprisoned in archives. million times.

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Archiving Human Rights Humanities Cultures 116

The Effortful Educator

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Heres hoping as many as possible read the book and action the ideas getting these learning ideas on the front foot is a tough ask (weirdly) and moving teachers from their obsession about teaching to add an obsession about learning is the aim of the game. Teachers love to teach. The act of teaching is so enjoyable.

Psychology 121

Psychology Professional Development Humanities Teaching 121

Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2025

An anthropologist and poet reflects on a journey of return that tells a larger story about human connection, acts of Indigenous solidarity, and the potential for repair within anthropology. Many anthropologists have long framed repatriation through stories of loss to science and institutions. While the U.S.

Museum 122

Museum Anthropology Humanities History 122

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and Arizona State University found that human feedback was generally a bit better than AI feedback, but AI was surprisingly good. On a five-point scale that the researchers used to rate feedback quality, with a 5 being the highest quality feedback, ChatGPT averaged a 3.6

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Research Humanities History Middle School 139

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Teachers all over the country are being asked to teach “concurrent classrooms” in which some students attend class in person and others attend virtually. I wish there was research I could point to or a collection of best practices that I could share. There are more opportunities for social learning and human interaction.

Teaching 218

Teaching K-12 Humanities Research 218

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 25, 2021

Here is a short excerpt from Chapter 1: If we are to develop students who think disruptively, we must examine and reflect on our current teaching and learning practices. It’s time to challenge the status quo when it comes to teaching and learning in our classrooms. Our learners—and their future in a bold new world—depend on it and us.

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Artifacts Humanities Cultures Teaching 417

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

Even an efficient high school English teacher who can read and evaluate an essay in 20 minutes would spend 3,000 minutes, or 50 hours, grading if she’s teaching six classes of 25 students each. Most remarkably, the researchers obtained these fairly decent essay scores from ChatGPT without training it first with sample essays.

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Research Humanities High School History 145

Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The students used questions I developed and used in my research project.

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The purpose of this symposium is to share approaches to the teaching of human rights and to develop pedagogical materials for the discipline. APSA Teaching & Learning Symposium: Approaches to Human Rights Pedagogy Date: Thursday, June 19 – Saturday, June 21, 2025 Location: APSA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

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Human Rights Pedagogy Humanities Political Science 47

Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching. which are becoming increasingly user-friendly and flexible (Apostolidou, 2023).

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Anthropology Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy 130

Anthropology News

MARCH 31, 2025

The two cultural anthropologists on our team (Hansen and Yarris) regularly teach undergraduate and graduate courses related to immigration policy, migration studies, deportation, and immigrant social movements. immigration policies could directly lead to so much human devastation. Students shared emergent understandings of U.S.

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Museum Anthropology Humanities Social Justice 88

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 28, 2024

It is vital because it directly impacts the quality and effectiveness of teaching and learning environments. Exceptional leaders successfully lead their teams toward the future by engaging in the most fundamental form of research: observing and understanding human nature.

Leadership 389

Leadership Cultures Education Policy Humanities 389

NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Virginia History, AP Human Geography, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, and AP U.S. He told me about his students at a math and science magnet school in northern Virginia, who studied Lise Meitner and the complicated aftermath of her research findings. It’s about understanding humanity.” He taught U.S.

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Geography History Library Humanities 279

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2023

As I shared in Digital Leadership , evolving technology enables and empowers leaders to seize the moment and look for ways to fundamentally improve teaching, learning, and leadership. Peer-reviewed research Educators want a compelling why that imparts value when it comes to change.

Leadership 313

Leadership Pedagogy Library Humanities 313

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Artificial intelligence has been used for years in education to monitor teaching quality , teach classes , grade assignments and tailor instruction to student ability levels. Elsewhere, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University found Amira shows promise in boosting the vocabulary of students.

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Tutoring Teaching Humanities Economics 142

Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix.

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Anthropology Teaching Pedagogy Cultures 130

NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

After Jessica Ellison invited me to participate in a conversation about how academic historians might be of use to K-12 teachers, I did a little research: I asked teachers at our state social studies council what they most needed for their work. Those resources are tailored to reading level and teaching style, by standard and grade level.

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K-12 Primary Sources Archiving American History 312

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2023

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: While the reading and math “wars” have gotten a lot of attention in education in recent years, writing instruction has not received that same focus.

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Teaching K-12 Humanities High School 142

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Students can learn about how plants, animals, humans and the planet are interconnected, and how changes to the planet affect those living beings. Focusing on how a warming planet affects animals is less immediate and easier to grasp than talking about how it affects humans, said Christie-Blick.

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Lesson Plan Elementary School Humanities Teaching 119

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

What is the best way to teach? This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The researchers found that students who spent more time in class solving practice problems on their own and taking quizzes and tests tended to have higher scores in math. Some educators like to deliver clear explanations to students. Project-based learning is trendy.

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Teaching Project-Based Learning Tutoring Economics 145

Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Listen to the interview with Amanda Morin and Emily Kircher-Morris ( transcript ): Sponsored by Boclips Classroom and Brisk Teaching This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. What we have to realize when we’re doing that, all we are doing is teaching them to mask or camouflage what kind of makes them different.

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Pedagogy Elementary School Teaching Education 211