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Bertrand Russell’s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking

TeachThought

Bertrand Russell’s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking by Terry Heick For a field of study that explores the nature of knowledge, Philosophy has had a surprisingly small impact on education. Most formal academic ‘platforms’ like public schools and universities tend to parse knowledge into content areas–what is being learned–rather than how and why it is being learned.

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Fostering Student Innovation in the Ciena Solutions Challenge

Digital Promise

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Why You Shouldn’t Use Physical Education As Punishment

TeachThought

Don’t Use Physical Education As Punishment contributed by Dr. Kymm Ballard, Executive Director for SPARK Think about any time you’ve seen “army boot camp” portrayed in pop culture — are you picturing the traditional drill sergeant, ordering his troops to do endless laps and push-ups, as punishment for their errors that day? Now, with that scenario in your mind, imagine it being played out by children and teenagers at school — and instead of drill sergeants, their teachers are at the helm.

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This Mom Saw a Need and Filled It. Now a Paraeducator, She Makes Up the ‘Backbone of the School.’

ED Surge

Chaula Butterworth was a stay-at-home mom before the pandemic, raising her three school-aged kids. But as her youngest child’s school district sought to return to in-person learning in 2021, Butterworth felt something of a call to service. Many teachers and school staff were reluctant to return to crowded classrooms and hallways as the virus continued to spread.

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Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine

Teaching American History

Elizabeth Eckford attempting to enter Little Rock School on September 4, 1957. Johnny Jenkins, United Press. Library of Congress. Two well-known black and white photographs depict the struggle to end racial segregation in Southern schools that continued after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Less well known is the woman who organized and supported the brave actions of the Little Rock Nine: Daisy Bates.

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AI Chatbots Reflect Cultural Biases. Can They Become Tools to Alleviate Them?

ED Surge

Jeremy Price was curious to see whether new AI chatbots including ChatGPT are biased around issues of race and class. So he devised an unusual experiment to find out. Price, who is an associate professor of technology, innovation, and pedagogy in urban education at Indiana University, went to three major chatbots — ChatGPT, Claude and Google Bard (now called Gemini) — and asked them to tell him a story about two people meeting and learning from each other, complete with details like the names of

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On the Podcast: Creating Joyful Classroom Reading Communities

Heinemann Blog

In this episode, we explore the pitfalls of reading incentives and how they can undermine intrinsic motivation and create a culture of winners and losers. Instead, discover how to build a supportive and equitable reading community that truly values the joy of reading. Tune in for this thought-provoking audiobook sample from The Joy of Reading by Donalyn Miller and Terry Lesesne.

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Charting Uncharted: A Portrayal of Treasure Hunting

Anthropology News

The video game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves opens in media res. The camera pans to Nathan Drake, treasure hunter/adventurer/thief, who is barely clinging on to the side of a rusty train car that lays perched on the edge of a deadly cliff in the freezing Himalayas. You are thrust into embodying him, forcefully immersed by the snow-silenced soundscape and the vibration of the controller at each precarious grasp to safety.

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The Origins of Horse Domestication: A New Chapter in Human History

Anthropology.net

Throughout the annals of human history, no animal has had a more profound impact on the development of human societies than the horse. The story of how, when, and where horses were first domesticated has long been a topic of intense scientific inquiry. As research continues to evolve, it is becoming increasingly clear that the history of horse domestication is more complex and nuanced than previously thought. " Hoof Beats " invites readers on an zoo-archaeological journey through the ancient bon

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Going Native: Treasure

Anthropology News

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Tradition and Disruption in Latinx and Latin American Political Thought

Political Science Now

Tradition and Disruption in Latinx and Latin American Political Thought By Inés Valdez , Johns Hopkins University , Raymond Rocco , University of California, Los Angeles , and Arturo Chang , University of Toronto This article presents Latinx political thought as a distinctive tradition in political theory that reworks central concepts in response to historical experiences of conquest, colonialism, migration, and transnational politics.

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Other Anthropology Schools: Translating Disciplinary Treasures for “Undisciplined” Minds

Anthropology News

The urban landscape vanished entirely as the bus entered the tunnel. In a few minutes, I would be arriving on Dongmen Island with a group of strangers to collaborate on an educational program called by its conveners “ a summer utopia with humanistic knowledge.” The courses covered many domains—design, medicine, the environment—but most featured an anthropological flair, and most of the organizers had an anthropology background.

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STUDENT VOICE:  One of every five college students is a parent. Here’s how colleges can help more of us graduate 

The Hechinger Report

The first two times I tried college, I didn’t finish. There was never enough time to care for my young son, work a full-time job and do my schoolwork. And there was never enough money to pay rent, tuition and child care. On my third try, everything clicked. This time I was more motivated than ever before — to prove that I could do it, to prove the doubters wrong.

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Is Anthropology Taxidermy?

Anthropology News

On my campus, there is a zoological faculty, and its museum. This museum is filled with larvae in various stages of development, tadpoles and eggs, joining forces to enact different stages of a single life. Elsewhere, bees and ants pinned to hives stimulate the activities of collective life. A lobster is dismembered on a purple cushion to show its numerous components, and seven human fetuses float in jars, eyes variously opened or closed in eerie states of peace, calm, and disarray.

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Treasuring Indonesian Culture; From Local Practice to State Political Ritual

Anthropology News

President Jokowi Widodo, more commonly known as ”Jokowi,” and Vice President Jusuf Kalla surprised the public when attending Indonesia’s 2017 State of the Union Address (SOTU) by wearing traditional attire. Previous presidents and vice presidents had adhered to the customary practice of donning suits, ties, and the emblematic Indonesian black cap, or peci , while delivering the SOTU before all members of the Indonesian House ( DPR ) and the Regional Representative Council ( DPD ) in the parliame