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“What better way to spend my life than doing this?”

NCHE

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. For Jen Jacobs, middle school teacher and a member of our EPiC grant, the calling of teaching came later in life.

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Should Instructors Ask Students to Show Document Histories to Guard Against AI Cheating?

ED Surge

Show your work has taken on a new meaning and importance in the age of ChatGPT. As teachers and professors look for ways to guard against the use of AI to cheat on homework, many have started asking students to share the history of their online documents to check for signs that a bot did the writing. In some cases that means asking students to grant access to the version history of a document in a system like Google Docs, and in others it involves turning to new web browser extensions that hav

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Rumor Has It: Misinformation and Vigilante Violence

Political Science Now

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Sienna Nordquist , covers the new article by Sumitra Badrinathan, Simon Chauchard, and Niloufer Siddiqui, “Misinformation and Support for Vigilantism: An Experiment in India and Pakistan” In divided societies, religious and ethnic differences can become a lightning rod for conflict and violence.

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The Week That Was In 234

Moler's Musing

Introduction The past few weeks have been challengingprobably some of the toughest Ive faced as a teacher. Being sick on and off for nearly a month has left me drained, both physically and mentally. Adjusting to a new school setting, new students, and trying to figure out what works has added to the weight. This year has forced me to stray from some of my core teaching philosophies.

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Did I really cross the river on it?

Life and Landscapes

Reggie Van Stockum, with Cheryl Rankin Van Cheryl Van Stockum, at the Rocky Branch Swinging Bridge over the South Fork of the Kentucky River in Clay County, Kentucky at the “Narrows,” just north of Oneida! Click below for the short version of the Video: Click the link or picture below for the full Video: The Life and Landscapes Blog Site is at [link] www.facebook.com/reggievanstockum www.instagram.com/reggievanstockum www.vimeo.com/reggievanstockum www.youtube.

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Four ways for-profit colleges could benefit from a new Trump term

The Hechinger Report

For-profit college officials and their investors celebrated Donald Trumps return to the White House, but the policies they favor may come with more strings attached than during his first term in office. There will be similarities Trump wont be interested in limiting the growth of the for-profit college industry, as recent Democratic administrations were, and experts expect far fewer students who claim they were defrauded by for-profit colleges to have their loans forgiven.