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The Globe of History, like some similar 3D globe tools, lets you use a slider to choose the year and then shows you markers. Once you click on the markers, it will tell you what happened there at that time.

Google Maps Mania describes how this part of it is a little different:

While many history maps pull raw facts from Wikipedia or Wikidata, the creators of Globe of History have built a multi-stage pipeline to turn this information into structured, readable narratives. Using AI, this system expands the raw data into more detailed historical summaries, which are then cross-referenced using AI-driven fact-checking to double-check the generated text.

I’m adding it to The Best Websites For Teaching & Learning About World History.

     

Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here.

You can also see all my “Best” lists on instructional strategies here.

Here are this week’s picks:

 

Flipping the ‘I Do, We Do, You Do’ Model in Science Class is from Edutopia.

Reframing the Narrative is a series of what looks to me like some decent inquiry-based social studies units. Check them out here.

Retro Report offers lots of free videos appropriate for the classroom.

Culturally Relevant Math Literature is a useful collection.

Thinking Aloud is a useful overview from DistillED.

I’m adding this post to The Best Teaching/Learning Resources On The Musical, “Hamilton”:

What a great question to pose to a class——-‘Hamilton’ Feels Different 10 Years Later www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) August 6, 2025 at 7:10 AM

I’m adding this next post to The Best Resources For Learning How To Best Give Feedback To Students:

Before students get their individual feedback returned in our classroom, we go through this sequence:

① what did we do well collectively?
② what are some specific growth trends? (S’s take notes!)
③ which trends apply to you? (S’s discuss w/ each other)
④ okay NOW how do you feel about how you did?

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— Marcus Luther (@marcusluther.bsky.social) August 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM

     

AI Is Different From Other Ed Tech. Here’s How is the headline of one of my recent Education Week columns.

Debates over artificial intelligence are really about asking some big philosophical questions.

Here are some excerpts:

     

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I’ve previously shared how some, most notably David Brooks, have attempted to substitute Social Emotional Learning for adequate and sustained financial support for public education (see The manipulation of Social Emotional Learning and The Best Articles About The Study Showing Social Emotional Learning Isn’t Enough).

Those efforts have sort of cratered since, under the Trump administration, many don’t feel any need to show any concern for students, even if it’s fake.

But it’s still useful to be aware of new research that shows SEL can’t mitigate the effects of poverty.

Here’s an excerpt from Growth mindset and socioeconomic inequality in academic achievement across seventy-three PISA countries:

The results show that growth mindset mediates only a small portion of the effect of SES on student achievements, accounting for no more than 2.9% to 3.2% of the total effect, depending on the subject. These findings challenge the influential idea that growth mindset can ‘temper’ the effect of poverty on academic achievement.

This doesn’t mean, of course, that having a growth mindset can’t help students, teachers and everybody else!

Plenty of research shows that a growth mindset can be an asset (see The Best Resources On Helping Our Students Develop A “Growth Mindset”) and even this study shows it can have a small positive effect.

It’s just not a magic bullet, which few people are saying it is, anyway.

     

I’m adding this video to The Best Websites To Learn About Various Religions & English: