Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Moreover, with regard to syndemics Horton tweeted , The anthropology community is ahead of medicine and public health.Once labeled a little-known buzzword that nonetheless describes our troubled times in Smithsonian Magazine , syndemic theory now informs a rich body of health research and interventions. Why teach syndemics?

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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. Most of the students were Black and Hispanic.

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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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ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A new book by one of those AI pioneers digs into the origins of ChatGPT and the intersection of research on how the brain works and building new large language models for AI. Listen to our conversation with Sejnowski on this week’s EdSurge Podcast, where he describes research to more fully simulate human brains.

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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. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Our approach to teaching data science and data literacy has hardly evolved since I started my teaching career in 1995. Early in my teaching career, we focused on teaching students how to use a dataset to create a bar graph or scatter plot. But it’s practically absent from the way our kids learn.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

For example, AI can assist lawyers in legal research, helping them identify relevant case law and regulations more efficiently. We then use questioning techniques, research, and evidence to identify gaps in practice. Furthermore, AI can enhance human capabilities by automating repetitive tasks and augmenting decision-making processes.

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Passion for Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

So, it is crucial to teach students about the voting process and its importance to our democracy. When teaching voting in the social studies classroom, students need to be civically engaged to understand how voting is essential to our democracy. Thankfully, incredible resources are ready to go when teaching about the election!

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 19, 2025

Listen to my interview with Jen Serravallo ( transcript ): Sponsored by Wix Tomorrow and Brisk Teaching This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. Jen Serravallo In her newest book, Teaching Reading Across the Day , she gives us nine research-backed lesson structures for explicitly teaching reading across all content areas.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Instead of spending seven to twelve hours per week creating instructional content, access to high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) allows teachers to focus on what truly matters: teaching and engaging students in meaningful, impactful lessons. Materials help students engage in learning opportunities like scholars in social studies.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Teaching prompted us to reassess our skills and rediscover the motivations that led us to pursue archaeology originally. Watching these moments in the field school was eye-opening and convinced us that teaching isn’t just about sharing knowledge; it’s also about keeping our own love for learning alive. Orchard at its core.

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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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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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Anthropology.net

MARCH 15, 2025

Many of these remains were acquired through colonial grave robbing, unethical medical research, or outright theft. Non-Destructive Research Methods : Advances in technology allow researchers to gather data from skeletal remains without permanently altering them. Additional Related Research: Blakey, M. link] Colwell, C.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2025

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers werent explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Since then, reading researchers have come up with many ideas to foster comprehension. Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms. Some kids naturally got it.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Not only was I not in classrooms enough, but also the level of feedback provided through the lens of a narrative report did very little to improve teaching and learning both in and out of the classroom. I made an effort to align every point of critical feedback to current research.

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Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Forcing Reading, Writing, and Listening into One Space If we aren’t careful, we can easily slip into teaching routines that force students to multitask, making them choose between reading, writing, or listening at the expense of one of the other things. One common scenario where this happens is giving lectures.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

A trio of researchers argues that it’s unclear where students with disabilities learn the most and recommends that teachers and parents focus first on interventions students need. Ideally, from a research perspective, youd want to randomly assign students with disabilities to both types of classrooms and see where they learn more.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2024

It intertwines innovative teaching practices, cutting-edge technologies, and a culture of inclusivity into the very fabric of districts and schools. All services and offerings that we provide support longitudinal and evidence-based change to improve learner outcomes backed by research. SET grounds everything we do at Aspire Change EDU.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Research shows that approximately 1.27 Connie Juel conducted research years ago that found that if children are not proficient readers by the end of first grade, there is an 88 percent chance theyll remain poor readers by the end of fourth grade. The science of teaching reading is less clear than the science of reading itself.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 11, 2021

What has changed are the tools, research, and societal shifts that impact the work. Pedagogical leadership encompasses all the many ways to support effective teaching and learning. It requires a deeper understanding of how the brain works and research-based strategies that teachers can readily implement in their classrooms.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 14, 2021

The stage was set in separate large group sessions described below: In order to fully understand the impact remote learning has on teaching and learning, we must be purposeful in the role we play in supporting and leading teachers in a digital environment. We must inspect what we expect.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. Its not the conventional way to teach the subject, Fisher says. For Fisher, its important to mingle math and play.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

“Algebra in eighth grade is a gateway to a lot of further opportunities,” said Dan Goldhaber, an economist who studies education at the American Institutes for Research, in a recent webinar. Researchers are trying to understand why so few Black and Hispanic students and low-income students of all races are making it through this early gate.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. For more than 25 years, prominent researchers in early childhood math education have been promoting subitizing as something that schools should be teaching to build number sense. Now he forgot it.’

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

“News literacy is fundamental to preparing students to become active, critically thinking members of our civic life — which should be one of the primary goals of a public education,” Kim Bowman, News Literacy Project senior research manager and author of the report, said in an email interview. “If

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Technology has the potential to transform teaching and learning in a number of ways. One way it can be used to transform teaching and learning is by providing students with access to a wealth of information, including multimedia resources, educational apps, and online databases.

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Teaching Anthropology

MARCH 10, 2025

From September 2023 to April 2024, I mentored two students, Brendan Newton and Ellie Wan, as they completed their professional opportunities as Research Assistants in my lab (Complex Trait and Forensic Genomics Laboratory). What was your primary learning objective or research question?

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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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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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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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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

With interest in the teaching profession waning and enrollment in teacher preparation programs reaching historic lows, all eyes are on the next crop of students — tomorrow’s prospective educators — to make up the deficit. Teaching, many would argue, is one of the most meaningful jobs available.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

Despite my best efforts, I couldn't visit classrooms as frequently as I would have liked, and the feedback I provided in written reports could have done more to enhance teaching and learning both inside and outside the classroom.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 7, 2021

It also provides evidence that strategies aligned to research and sound instructional design are implemented in practical ways. Whether face-to-face, hybrid or remote , the elements of learning and good teaching remain the same. Names were removed from public view, so students weren't embarrassed.

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 12, 2024

From Laughter to Learning: Teaching Methods through Engaging Narrative Workshops By Joel Martinsson , and Emma Ricknell , Linnaeus University Can we increase students grasp and integration of research methods in political science, and do so in a fun way? We believe the answer is yes.

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ED Surge

JUNE 5, 2024

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. As a teacher, I know it can be difficult to know how to respond in the moment of teaching to make sure the students' learning continues to improve toward the goal.

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