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Tag: Class
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Nation & World
Do phones belong in schools?
Banning cellphones may help protect classroom focus, but school districts need to stay mindful of students’ sense of connection, experts say.
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Nation & World
Turning a light on our implicit biases
Mahzarin Banaji, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology, who studies implicit biases, was the featured speaker at an online seminar Tuesday, “Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People.”
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Nation & World
Dealing with disaster
As part of the class “GeoSciFi Movies: Real vs. Fiction,” students took part in a role-playing game that had them play the parts of the government and citizens of the island of Montserrat, as well as a group of scientists monitoring the island’s volcano.
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Campus & Community
Connecting Harvard history to its surroundings
In class, Harvard freshmen dive into archives to learn from the University’s past about its ties to communities and the wider world.
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Science & Tech
Harvard students, meet the Stone Age
Students taking part in a new freshman seminar class learn to appreciate the sophistication of Neanderthals by manufacturing their own stone tools from scratch.
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Campus & Community
Using privilege helpfully
Acknowledging one’s privilege — and using that advantage to help level the playing field for everyone — is essential in the fight against racism and sexism, activist Peggy McIntosh told a crowd of Harvard faculty and staff in the second of this year’s FAS diversity dialogues.
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Campus & Community
Learning to listen
About 60 Harvard undergraduates from a wide range of ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds take part in Sustained Dialogue, a program that assembles students from diverse backgrounds and experiences to discuss often divisive topics such as race, class, gender, and sexuality.
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Nation & World
Military model may help close gap
Does the military have anything to teach educators? Absolutely, said Brookings Institution senior fellow Hugh Price, who, 18 months out of Yale Law School in 1968, gave up his career to become a youth counselor.
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Campus & Community
Through a child’s eye
At first glimpse, the photos don’t seem particularly revealing: a fish on a plate, a television, clean dishes on a rack, a toddler with outstretched arms, a lighted porch. But to Wendy Luttrell, these pictures — and 1,600 others like them in her data base at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) — open…
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Campus & Community
BSC announces spring schedule
The Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) will be offering morning and afternoon sessions of its spring-term “Reading and Study Strategy” course beginning Feb. 12.