How Can We Encourage ‘Unmotivated’ Students?
How Can We Encourage ‘Unmotivated’ Students? is the new “question-of-the-week” at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to offer your suggestions there or here in the comments….
Another Interesting Piece On “Bridge,” Pearson’s Third World School Model
Earlier this year I posted about a New York Times article that contrasted two companies with rapidly-growing models for private education in the Third World (see Really Interesting NY Times Article On Two Visions Of Education In Developing World — Pearson Is Everywhere!). One of those companies was funded by Pearson. Even though I was much more favorably impressed by what the other company (BRAC
More Resources on Typhoon Haiyan
Here are new additions to The Best Resources For Learning About Typhoon Haiyan: Typhoon Haiyan, before and after images is from The Washington Post. Typhoon victims in Philippines plead for aid is an Associated Press interactive. What a deadly typhoon in the Philippines can tell us about climate adaptation is from The Washington Post. The Poverty and Population Factors Behind Vast Typhoon Losses
The Best Posts Interpreting This Year’s NAEP Scores
There has been a lot of reporting on this year’s NAEP test score results, and it’s been all over the map. As John Merrow tweeted: Choose a DC NAEP headline: “Achievement Gap Grows Wider” “DC & Mississippi Worst in Nation” “20 Years of Educational Progress Continues” — John Merrow (@John_Merrow) November 12, 2013 And what is the NAEP, you might ask? The National Assessment of Educational Pro
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Supporting English Language Learners In Content Classes
Teaching Beginning and Intermediate English Language Learners in mainstream content classes can be particularly challenging, and I’ve written extensively about it previously in two “The Best…” lists: The Best Sites For Learning Strategies To Teach ELL’s In Content Classes The Best Multilingual & Bilingual Sites For Math, Social Studies, & Science I thought readers might be interested in
The Best Site — Ever — On The Gettysburg Address
Learn The Address is a site set-up by filmmaker Ken Burns as a prelude to his April PBS documentary titled “The Address.” Anyone can videotape themselves saying the Address, upload it to YouTube, and then it will be placed in a video gallery at the site. He’s got quite a mix of people doing this — “regular” folks and celebrities. Here’s a sampling: I’m adding it to The Best Online Resources F
Will TweetDeck’s New Custom Timelines Kill-Off Storify?
As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of Storify as an excellent tool to curate and tweets around a particular topic (you can see all my Storify stories here). , Twitter announced that its TweetDeck tool added “Custom Timelines” as a new feature. You can read all about it at that link, but, basically, you can drag-and-drop any tweets you want into a timeline that you can then embed. In other wor
11-12-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: New Multimedia On Typhoon TragedyHere are the newest additions to The Best Resources For Learning About Typhoon Haiyan: Here are some resources from The New York Times: Mapping the Destruction of Typhoon Haiyan is an interactive. Pictures of Typhoon Haiyan’s Wrath Here’s another video:10 by Larry Ferlazzo / 2h 11-11-13 Lar