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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NCHE

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Jen Jacobs on Multidimensionality, Memorability, and Making History Come Alive A member of our EPiC grant in Michigan, Jen Jacobs, shared her journey into teaching and the impact that journey has left on her since. Sometimes teaching isnt a first job or even a first calling. What better way to spend my life than doing this?

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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? The school’s out of control.

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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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NCHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

History is about real human beings, who were complicated products of their time and were also heavily influenced by decisions made by those in their own past. As much as we want to be acknowledged as full human beings and honored as individuals with beliefs and experiences, the people of the past deserve that courtesy, too.

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Primary Sources History Education History Library 230

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. Others say learning facts is unimportant in the age of Google where we can instantly look anything up, and that the focus should be on teaching skills.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Although I knew I had a passion for teaching before entering college, I always had this idea in my head that teaching K-12 education wasn’t a real or appropriate profession for an Ivy League, engineering graduate like myself. On the spectrum of professional experience for K-12 teachers, I am decidedly on the greener side.

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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. Now, we need the will to do so.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 15, 2025

Not a new post - a few years old - but relevant today when teaching about the geography of our consumption and the impact it has on the planet. Visual Capitalist has produced a striking visualisation of which parts of the planet have been most affected by human activity.

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Humanities Geography Teaching 52

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. Emotion has a substantial influence on the cognitive processes in humans, including perception, attention, learning, memory, reasoning, and problem-solving. Find ways to include novelty.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2025

The question to us is less about whether we should teach novels than it is about how to make reading them work for students. Novels are powerful pedagogy because they are hard and time-consuming to teach. If we want students to invest in the great, global conversation of the humanities, its going to take a bit of salespersonship.

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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.

Human Rights 43

Human Rights Humanities Political Science Teaching 43

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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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Instead, my call to action is to fight the urge to teach the way you were taught and lead the way you were led. I shared the following in Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms : The human brain is wired to keep us safe, and as a result, we often become averse to change. Now I am not saying to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 24, 2020

We can now teach each other and learn something we previously had no knowledge of through diverse expertise anywhere, anytime, and from anyone. To be more effective, we need to realize that there is a wealth of human resources at our fingertips that can help us all do what we already do better. Life is all about choices.

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Geography Humanities Cultures Professional Development 545

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 24, 2024

While it won't replace the irreplaceable human touch in the classroom, AI can significantly enhance teaching and learning by offering personalization, efficiency, and insightful data analysis. The human connection between teacher and student remains central to fostering creativity, critical thinking, and social-emotional development.

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Interactive Learning Critical Thinking Humanities Teaching 452

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 24, 2022

After all, this is human nature. There is no better way to teach this life-long lesson than getting kids into the learning pit for productive struggle. In life, I would wager that the majority of us prefer the path of least resistance. Life is hard.

Humanities 530

Humanities Teaching Education 530

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Below I will address six specific areas that can help to create an empathetic teaching and learning culture. Teaching both face-to-face and remote learners at the time is not easy, but I recently developed a pedagogical framework using a station rotation model that can help. Even though they are similar, there is a difference.

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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. There are more opportunities for social learning and human interaction. Teaching a concurrent classroom is a daunting task. 1 Station Rotation Model.

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Teaching K-12 Humanities Research 218

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.

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Psychology Professional Development Humanities Teaching 121

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the interviewer asking the questions wasn’t a human researcher — it was an AI chatbot. In the following, you will conduct an interview with a human respondent to find out the participant’s motivations and reasoning regarding their voting choice during the legislative elections on June 30, 2024, in France, a few days after the interview.”

Social Science 123

Social Science Research Economics Humanities 123

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

One of the central ideas was about keeping the human in the work: Technology skills are critical skills, but we need to keep in mind that technology has its role and place but it should not replace the teacher. We use technology as a tool to teach and learn. Another workshop discussed the productiveness of failure.

Education 144

Education EdTech Humanities Critical Thinking 144

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? Are they overworked?

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Anthropology Sociology Cultures Educational Technology 130

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Recently, EdSurge webinar host Matthew Joseph discussed with education experts the need for assessments to measure what truly matters and power human progress. We must consider not just the learner but all human actors in the system and the decisions they need to make to support that learner’s journey.

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Education Professional Development Humanities Psychology 125

ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The emphasis on a human-centric approach underscores the commitment to cultivating a balanced perspective on AI integration. Educators are encouraged to view AI not merely as a technological advancement but as a tool to enhance and augment the human experience. EdSurge: How have you incorporated the teaching of AI in the classroom?

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Humanities Education K-12 Critical Thinking 127

ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Teachers with math anxiety spend fewer hours teaching it in the classroom, so its important to end that cycle now, Robinson says. Math As Humanities? They are trained as generalists and may not have had the chance to explore in depth effective practices for teaching math. Or they prefer reading and literacy over math.

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Elementary School Middle School Pedagogy Humanities 123

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

ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. When Marc Watkins heads back into the classroom this fall to teach a digital media studies course, he plans to make clear to students how he’s now using AI behind the scenes in preparing for classes.

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Teaching Education K-12 Lesson Plan 145

Sapiens

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The SAPIENS Editorial Team Material World Tools of the Wild: Unveiling the Crafty Side of Nature By Michael Haslam and Abigail Desmond Once considered a uniquely human activity, tool use has been spotted across diverse species. Its time to rethink what tools reveal about their users intelligence and evolution.

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Archiving Human Rights Humanities Cultures 113

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.

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Museum Anthropology Humanities History 122

ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. But pursuing dreams and passions requires time and space, and teaching leaves me barely any room to breathe. Teaching has consumed me.

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Teaching Humanities Lesson Plan Middle School 145

A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Pursuing improvement is a never-ending process because the landscape of knowledge, technology, and human understanding is in a perpetual state of evolution. Furthermore, the human capacity for growth and learning is boundless. Whether at the individual or system level, the fact remains that there is always room for growth.

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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.

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TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

” These might be the wrong questions, a product of our sentimentality as a culture and human insecurity in general. Move farther and ask, ‘What human need did we originally design schools to solve?’ Will the students themselves replace teachers through self-directed learning, social/digital communities, and adaptive technology?”

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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

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

ED Surge

MAY 23, 2024

They had an idea, though, for how they could set up a unique set of guardrails that would make a new kind of teaching tool that could help students get more of their ideas into their assignments and spend less time thinking about formatting sentences. They have been building tools together to help teach writing for decades.

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