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"Self-Driven Learning: Teaching Strategies for Student Motivation"
will be a sequel to"Helping Students Motivate Themselves"
“Quandary” Is A Cool Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Game
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 8 hours ago
Quandary is a neat online game/choose your own adventure story that is can work well as a tool for English language development (see Digital Play for an ELL lesson plan) and/or as a way to deal with ethical questions (the … Continue reading →
February’s Best Tweets — Part Three
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 12 hours ago
Every month I make a short list highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog. Now and then, in order to make it a … Continue reading →
Summary: Week Three Of Twitter Chat On Student Motivation Using #selfdrivenlrng Hashtag
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 day ago
My next book, Self-Driven Learning: Teaching Strategies for Student Motivation, will be published on March 1st by Eye On Education. It’s a sequel to my book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves. Starting in Feb and continuing for 6 weeks, I’ll be … Continue reading →
Video: “Fiery Looping Rain on the Sun”
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 day ago
I’m adding this NASA video to The Best Images Taken In Space: You can learn more about it here.
The Best Resources For International Mother Language Day
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 day ago
Much to my surprise, I just learned that today, February 21st, had been designated International Mother Language Day by UNESCO. Here’s what it says on its website: International Mother Language Day was proclaimed by the General Conference of the United … Continue reading →
This Week’s Round-Up Of Useful Education Policy Posts & Articles
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 day ago
Here are a few relatively recent good posts on education policy issues that are worth a read: Why Nobody Wins In The Education “Research Wars” is from The Shanker Blog. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Understanding How … Continue reading →
Infographic: “Baby’s First Foods from Around the World”
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 day ago
I’m adding this infographic to The Best Sites For Learning About The World’s Different Cultures:
The Most Dysfunctional Education Reports Of The Year!
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 day ago
The National Education Policy Center has announced their annual Bunkum Awards: This marks our seventh year of handing out the treasured Bunkums. That’s seven years of honoring the lows and very lows, chosen from among those reports scrutinized by our … Continue reading →
The Best Posts On The Annual MetLife Survey Of The American Teacher
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 2 days ago
The annual MetLife Survey of the American Teacher came out today, and I thought I’d share some info on it, as well as share my posts on previous editions of it. First off, you can find this year’s edition hot … Continue reading →
“TIME Explains” Video Series
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 2 days ago
TIME Magazine has an ongoing series of short TIME Explains videos on current events. Here’s a link to most of them. Their most recent example (embedded below) explains how the Pope is elected: I’m adding this info to The Best … Continue reading →
Knowledge Isn’t Power — “Power is Power”
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 2 days ago
I’ve been watching “Game of Thrones” on DVD, and just saw this great scene that teaches an important lesson about making change: Knowledge is not power — “Power is power.” During my nineteen year community organizing career, we learned and … Continue reading →
“Asking Good Questions Is Important Because…..”
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 2 days ago
I have lessons both in Helping Students Motivate Themselves and in Self-Driven Learning related to helping students learn good question-asking skills. I also have two “The Best…” lists related to asking questions. After doing the lesson on asking good questions … Continue reading →
More On The Importance Of Sleep For Teens
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 3 days ago
Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources For Helping Teens Learn About The Importance Of Sleep: Sleep is More Important than Food is from The Harvard Business Review. Sleep Stealers: What’s Keeping Children From Getting Enough Shut-Eye? is … Continue reading →
Study: Self-Esteem Activity Helps Latino Students, Too
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 3 days ago
Three years ago I wrote a blog post about a simple writing exercise for self-esteem resulted in higher academic achievement for African-American students. There was no reason to think it wouldn’t be effective for all students, and I included an … Continue reading →
Study: More Power Equals More Self-Control & Less Power Equals — You Guessed It!
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 3 days ago
A new study finds that the more power people feel they have, the more self-control they exhibit. Researchers: …speculated that power holders may be willing to wait for the larger rewards because they feel more connected with their future selves, … Continue reading →
HipCV Looks Like A Decent Resume-Creator
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 3 days ago
HipCV is a new resume-builder site that, importantly, lets you download your resume as a PDF. It provides a pretty straightforward guide to adding information to a resume, which is important for students. I’m adding it to The Best Places … Continue reading →
Free Super-Easy “Create A Harlem Shake App” Comes To iPhones Today
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 3 days ago
My post, The Harlem Shake As A Language-Learning Activity, has certainly become a popular one. And, if you thought it was easy to make a Harlem Shake video before today, it’s now become even easier! The app creator hitcents.com released … Continue reading →
Free Book Excerpts — Lesson Plans On Bloom’s Taxonomy & Metacognition
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 3 days ago
Eye On Education has just made an excerpt from my upcoming book, Self-Driven Learning, available free online. Just go to the link and click on “Click for PDF sample pages.” It will lead you to a portion of my chapter … Continue reading →
This Week’s “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t”
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 4 days ago
I have a huge backlog of resources that I’ve been planning to post about in this blog but, just because of time constraints, have not gotten around to doing. Instead of letting that backlog grow bigger, I regularly grab a … Continue reading →
David Brooks Proves Once Again He Is Very Insightful About Education When He Isn’t Writing About It
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 4 days ago
David Brooks, who generally loses all coherence when he writes explicitly about education issues, has just written an eloquent case for the importance of being data-informed, and not data-driven. Read his column today titled What Data Can’t Do. I’m adding … Continue reading →
“Migrating your Posterous site to Edublogs”
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 4 days ago
Sue Waters has just posted easy instructions on how to transfer Posterous blogs to Edublogs. Check out Migrating your Posterous site to Edublogs.
Video: “Really Cute Animals”
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 4 days ago
Here’s another great video to show English Language Learners and have them describe what they see:
More On My Harlem Shake Lesson
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 4 days ago
Here are some new additions to my post, The Harlem Shake As A Language-Learning Activity: Rules for Shooting Your Own ‘Harlem Shake’ Video Have You Done A Harlem Shake Video Yet?
Everything You Wanted To Know About Grit, But Were Afraid To Ask…
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 5 days ago
I write a lot in my books and my blog about helping students develop “grit,” or perseverance, and have previously posted The Best Resources For Learning About The Importance Of “Grit.” Thanks to Tom Vander Ark, I’ve learned about a … Continue reading →
Is “JustMigrate” The Easiest Way To Save Your Posterous Blog?
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 5 days ago
With over ten million blogs hosted by the soon-to-be-shut-down Posterous site, there are a lot of people who want to move and save their blogs. Just Migrate now lets you easily move your Posterous blog to Tumblr in seconds. You … Continue reading →
The Best Resources For Learning To Use The Video App “Twine”
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 5 days ago
Twitter’s new video app Twine is only supposed to be used by people over the age of seventeen, so it’s not usable in K-12 classes. However, it is usable by educators communicating with other educators on social networks and, of … Continue reading →
Summary: Week Two Of Twitter Chat On Student Motivation Using #selfdrivenlrng Hashtag
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 5 days ago
My next book, Self-Driven Learning: Teaching Strategies for Student Motivation, will be published on March 1st by Eye On Education. It’s a sequel to my book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves. Starting in Feb and continuing for 6 weeks, I’ll be … Continue reading →
Data Data Everywhere…..
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 5 days ago
Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources Showing Why We Need To Be “Data-Informed” & Not “Data-Driven”: Be evidence informed, but not data driven. There are faces behind data, so use data judiciously. -Hargreaves & Fullan — Joe … Continue reading →
Good Daniel Pink Quote
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 5 days ago
Here’s a quote from the interview I did with Daniel Pink: Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest
“Teachers As ‘Persuaders’: An Interview With Daniel Pink”
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 5 days ago
Teachers As “Persuaders”: An Interview With Daniel Pink is my newest post over at Education Week Teacher. It’s pretty interesting, if I say so myself
More Understanding Equals More Interest & Intrinsic Motivation
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 5 days ago
NPR had an interesting piece on this morning with classroom implications. It was called Can You Learn To Like Music You Hate? A study found that the more people learned about music theory and how it worked, the more interested … Continue reading →
Newspaper Article About Our Extraordinary Bilingual Aide
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 5 days ago
3 who graduated in Sacramento go to work, uncertain they’ll ever be official U.S. citizens is the headline of today’s big article in the Sacramento Bee. One of the people featured is Alma Avalos, an extraordinary bilingual aide at our … Continue reading →
This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Good Posts & Articles On Education Policy
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 6 days ago
Here are some useful recent posts and articles on education policy issues: Charter schools that start bad stay bad, study finds is from Valerie Strauss at The Washington Post. I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles Analyzing Charter … Continue reading →
Create A Quiz With “ImageQuiz”
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 6 days ago
Image Quiz lets you easily grab images off the web (or upload your own) and create quizzes with them. No registration is required to create or take them, and there are quite a few already there. I’m adding it to … Continue reading →
“White House immigration bill offers path to residency”
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 6 days ago
USA Today has just published details of the Obama Administration’s immigration reform plan. Check out White House immigration bill offers path to residency. I’m adding it to The Best Resources About The New Push For Immigration Reform.
More On The Next Papal Election
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 6 days ago
Here are two new additions to The Best Resources For Learning About The Next Papal Election: The Last Time a Pope Resigned, Mass Media Was Called … Mass is from The Atlantic. The 117 Men Who Will Choose the Next … Continue reading →
Video: A Great Example Of Perseverance
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 6 days ago
Perseverance and intrinsic motivation are qualities researchers have found critical for being a successful language learner. The New York Times has a great article about a young and physically short basketball player who demonstrates both. Here’s a video of him … Continue reading →
Video: Colbert On Steven Seagal & “Gun Posses” Patrolling Schools
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 6 days ago
Thanks to Valerie Strauss, I learned about Stephen Colbert’s recent report on what’s happening in Arizona. I’m adding it to A Collection Of The Best “Laugh While You Cry” Videos. The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & … Continue reading →
Updates on The Russian Meteor
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 6 days ago
Here are a couple of new additions to The Best Multimedia On The Russian Meteor: Asteroid approaches earth, meteorite strikes Russia; what’s the difference? The Incredible Russian Meteor, Explained is from The Atlantic.
More On The President’s New College Scorecard
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 6 days ago
Earlier this week I published a fairly popular post titled That Was Quick — Obama Administration Unveils “College Scorecard.” Now, Ed Source has published a very interesting piece titled Community colleges to release scorecard rivaling the president’s. It reflects some … Continue reading →
The Best Resources For Learning About The Next Papal Election
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 week ago
The upcoming Papal election looks likes it may coincide with my IB Theory of Knowledge class covering “Religion,” though I’m not sure yet if or how I might take advantage of that coincidence. Just in case, though, I’ve decided to … Continue reading →
Video: “The Simpsons” Take On Standardized Testing
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 week ago
Thanks, Joe Bower….
The Best Info On Skills Employers Are Looking For In Job-Seekers
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 week ago
One of the ways I try to help students motivate themselves in our life skills lessons and when we push as much as possible into higher-order thinking skill activities is to share information about what employers are looking for in … Continue reading →
Bye, Bye, Posterous
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 week ago
Posterous, the easy as pie blogging platform, is being shut down on April 30th by its new owner, Twitter. Read all about it at TechCrunch.
The Harlem Shake As A Language-Learning Activity
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 week ago
I was crazy enough to have my English Language Learner students create Gangnam-style videos as a language-learning activity (though no one reading this blog will ever see what we created since students wouldn’t do it unless I participated and, trust … Continue reading →
The Best Multimedia On The Russian Meteor
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 week ago
As I’m sure everybody knows by now, a meteor hit Russia earlier today causing damage and injuring hundreds. Here are some resources on the event: The New York Times has a fascinating collage of videos. Meteor falls over Russia is … Continue reading →
A Selection Of Nelson Mandela Videos
Larry Ferlazzo at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 week ago
We’re in the minds of our ninth-grade English unit on Nelson Mandela, and here are several videos I’m adding to The Best Sites For Learning About Nelson Mandela: