Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Many writing centers are already jumping in to experiment with new AI tools, making the case both for the continued importance of writing instruction and for their place on campus as a hub for teaching AI literacy. “I Writing doesn’t have that much meaning without a human audience. So where does AI leave the writing center?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift This summer, teachers around the country are planning these lessons and more, in professional development programs designed to answer a pressing need: preparing teachers to teach about the climate crisis and empower students to act. “I Social science does not support that.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Andrea Queeley teaches her course about societies and cultures of the Caribbean at Florida International University. The crisis begs the question: When there’s only so much money and only so many students, how should universities decide what to teach and not teach? Related: Will this semester forever alter college?

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 24, 2024

Many students thought they were dodging science by taking a social sciences course. This lets me lead students into the topic by way of discussing culture in non-human primates. Gorillas in the class While the exercise could be adapted to any non-human primate species, I chose gorillas.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

With humanities and social science degree completions declining over the past 10 years, college liberal arts programs should consider sharing new U.S Census Bureau salary and industry data to teach prospective students about the programs’ strong economic returns. percent between 2020 to 2030. percent from 2020 to 2030.

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ED Surge

MAY 11, 2023

In the past few weeks, education groups, schools and colleges have teamed up to offer resources for educators and draft policy papers in response to the sudden rise of so-called generative AI tools, chatbots that can compose answers to questions that sound like they are written by a human.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2016

It’s a global initiative, with China launching a new educational Center , and Korean mathematics educators evaluating the practices for teaching mathematics in Korea. In many universities, humanities requirements exist in engineering schools and department, but are fairly modest. The post An Ode To STEM?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

High school data science classes, which teach how to use statistical methods and programming to query and analyze real-world data, are a budding development. A handful of states — Ohio , Oregon and New Jersey among them — are piloting high school data science courses or adding them to their K-12 math standards.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

It seems a humane policy not to wall off those with disabilities and keep them apart from society. Dalgaard, a senior researcher at VIVE—The Danish Centre for Social Science Research, initially found over 2,000 studies on special education inclusion. For the past 25 years, U.S. Who would argue against it?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2020

We start teaching “ Manhattanville Together … at a Distance: Coming Together as a Community in the Age of Covid-19 ” on July 6 to 96 incoming first-years. In decades of teaching,” Megan Cifarelli, the course facilitator, shared with the group we assembled, “I’ve never experienced anything like this.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

A recent explosion of research from the neurobiological, behavioral, and social sciences has illuminated new knowledge about how children learn. The natural human drive to learn cannot flourish when children are hungry, tired, sick, or living in unsafe, chaotic, unstable conditions.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the News Preservice teachers enhanced their teaching competencies in 11 of 14 categories using Edthena’s Video Coaching platform. This data comes from an independent study published in Nature’s “Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.” Read the full article below.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Related: How higher education lost its shine The saying “where you stand depends on where you sit” is apt in this debate; I’m executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, and I’m struck by how infrequently colleges of arts and sciences are factored into the conversation.

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ED Surge

JULY 26, 2023

I am a social sciences and Spanish teacher and a mother of three children, and with that comes the social and self-imposed pressure to show that all the pieces of my life fit together like a shiny mosaic. I would like to believe this is a personal battle, but this drive toward perfectionism also impacts our students.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Of our survey respondents, 90 percent agreed that humanity has the ability to mitigate climate change, 78 percent believed in the power of individual action and more than 80 percent were motivated to be part of the climate change solution. Amid the anxiety, however, are notable glimmers of hope.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2021

Jennifer Greif Green, an associate professor in the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development at Boston University, said most of a child’s interactions with adults are with their parents and teachers, “so any disruption to that is really going to have an impact on that whole ecosystem and all those relationships.”. Not even close.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Commodore, who is black, couldn’t help but wonder whether race played a part as she was rejected from one college teaching job after another. percent of doctorates in the physical sciences. percent of doctorates in both the humanities and social sciences, but just 5.4 percent in the physical sciences.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Logue had the same teachers teach sections of both courses – remedial algebra and college stats – so that no one could argue instructional quality was different. Many instructors who used to teach remedial courses now teach these corequisite courses.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

Related: How to save the humanities? Fewer than one in 20 of all degrees now are in humanities disciplines traditionally associated with the liberal arts, according to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Leave this field empty if you're human: Small private liberal arts colleges also continue to close, most recently St.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Unlike programs at other colleges and universities, the curriculum focuses on major Western philosophical thinkers and writers via a “great books” program that Montás , who directs Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, considers critical to students’ intellectual development. Weekly Update.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 17, 2024

Each year, the Guggenheim Foundation awards approximately 175 fellowships to individuals making their mark in the social sciences, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts. He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science where his office is located.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

. — FEBRUARY 13, 2024 De Gruyter and the American Political Science Association (APSA) are pleased to announce agreement on a cooperation partnership to publish two new book series: The De Gruyter-APSA Teaching Civic Engagement Series and The De Gruyter-APSA Political Science Professional Development Series.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

They envision an ecosystem where learners buy access to courses without enrolling in colleges; where teachers profit directly from their teaching; where students track progress on ever-lengthening credential chains; and where people who invest in the right tokens gather in learning groups to explore topics of mutual interest.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Plato wrote that his teacher Socrates fretted that writing things down would cause humans to become ignorant because they wouldn’t have to memorize anything. In a 2018 article , 24 researchers declared that the Google effect was one of many dubious claims in social sciences. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Around 370 B.C.,

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Their research and teaching focuses on the intersections of climate justice and queer liberation, environmental justice, and social movements. They have published in Energy Research & Social Science and AAPI Nexus and contributed to Edward Elgar’s A Research Agenda for Human Rights edited volume.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

The isolated few who conduct terrorist attacks like those on my great-grandfather’s church think of the Coptic people, my people, as sub-human. Related: Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts. It was part of a spate of church burnings that occurred that year in Egypt. Mississippi Learning.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Why would we teach learners about the external world – history, geography, chemistry, and so forth – but never teach them about what is happening in their own minds, or those of others? Are there any schools that don’t already teach learners about addiction, about relationships, about learning, about peer pressure…?

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Since 2020, I have been the recipient of various APSA grants to offset conference presentation costs, including the First Generation Scholars in the Profession Annual Meeting Accessibility Grant, Member Relief Grant, Accessibility Grant to present at APSA Virtual Conference, as well as the Michael Brintnall Teaching and Learning Award.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

AI is shaping our everyday lives, but as anthropology teaching faculty, most of our recent AI-related conversations have had a singular focus: how to deal with generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the classroom. This essay describes our attempt to work through the panic and turn our concerns into a learning opportunity.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

” These student quotations, contained in a 2018 report from Just Equations , cut to the core of the problem: The teaching and structure of high-school math courses present critical barriers to math learning, educational achievement and equity. Related: Teaching kids not to be scared of math might help them achieve.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The humanities taught me I could do it. The simple message that majoring in the humanities pays off is being pushed aggressively by this university and a handful of others; they hope to reverse decades of plummeting enrollment in subjects that teach skills employers say they need from graduates but arent getting.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 31, 2025

We are also happy to accept submissions regarding pedagogical methods in teaching Latin, Greek and other classical subjects. students aspiring to apply to a PhD program. Panel submissions from multiple speakers on these subjects are also welcome.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Social studies is more than just a subject—it provides the foundation for understanding and engaging with the world around us. According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Keene at MAHG 2021 Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University.

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