TIME Chooses Its 50 Best Websites Of The Year & There Is One Gem On The List
TIME has just selected their 50 Best Websites of the Year. You’ll know most of them, and most of the others that you don’t know you don’t really need to know. However, usually I find one or two gems on their annual lists, and today is no exception. Quotacle is that gem, and here’s its description: It’s early days for this site, which lets you search for classic movie quotes along with the relevan
McKinsey & Company Projects That Common Core Implementation Will Result In 15% Increase In Dropout Rate
Thanks to Lori Jablonski and Tom Hoffman (I’ve embedded Lori’s tweets below), I learned about a report from the Carnegie Corporation that includes charts created by big-time consultants McKinsey & Company. First, the chart: So, based on my quick reading of the Carnegie report, titled Opportunity by Design: New High School Models for Student Success, unless we create small schools and do blend
Four Very Good Additional Resources On “Flow”
© 2006 Wesley Fryer, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio Boy, there sure are a lot of materials about “Flow” online, and there sure is a dearth of good resources among them. However, there are a few good ones that I’m adding to The Best Resources For Learning About “Flow”: Thoughts About Education: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is from the John Hopkins School of Education. Here’s an excellent video interview
Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
© 2010 RTLibrary, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio I’ve started a somewhat regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention: Try, try again? Study says no: Trying harder makes it more difficult to learn some aspects of language, neuroscientists find is the headline of a Science Daily article about a s
Video: Stephen Colbert Does A GREAT Job Interviewing Campbell Brown
Campbell Brown, leading the latest Son of Vergara lawsuit attacking teachers, was a guest on The Colbert Show last night. And, boy, did Colbert do a great job. Check out the video below:
More Resources On The Ebola Virus Crisis
© 2014 NIAID, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Here are new additions to The Best Resources For Learning About The Ebola Virus: Doctor Infected with Ebola Asks That Experimental Serum Go to Sick Colleague Instead is from The Atlantic. What would happen if Ebola came to the United States? is from Vox. Ebola: Liberia shuts schools to tackle outbreak is from The BBC. Daily chart: Ebola’s spread is from The
With Friends Like David Brooks, Social Emotional Learning Doesn’t Need Any Enemies
New York Times columnist David Brooks is at it again, demonstrating the rapidly growing public face of Social Emotional Learning as a “Let Them Eat Character” strategy (which I wrote about in The Washington Post — The manipulation of Social Emotional Learning). His column today, The Character Factory, quickly dismisses the effectiveness of programs that provide economic assistance to low-income p
7-31-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: July’s (2014) Best Tweets — Part FiveEvery month I make a few short lists highlighting my choices of the best resources I through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog. I’ve already shared in earlier posts several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I gave credit t