Thursday’s (2nd Week) Tweets About #Ferguson #MichaelBrown
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All My Ed Week Posts On Assessment — In One Place!
My latest column in Ed Week brings together all my posts on assessment from the past three years. Here’s an excerpt: I’m adding it to A Collection Of “The Best” Lists On Assessment.
You Might Find My New U.S. & World History Class Blogs Useful
I’ll be teaching English Language Learners World History, United States History, Geography, and English this year (along with my IB Theory of Knowledge classes). I’ll be revising and updating my very extensive U.S. History class blog and creating an entirely new one for World History (I’m just beginning to add content to that one now). You can also find a list of all my blogs here.
Arne Duncan’s Statement Today On Testing — Rhetoric Or Real?
Arne Duncan came out with a big statement on testing today that you’re going to want to read. Here’s an except, followed by AFT President Randi Weingarten’s response: Glad @arneduncan honored teachers &acknowledged @usedgov’s role in culture of testing.But words MUST become action http://t.co/S31j9Le7y8 — Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) August 21, 2014 Here’s the Huffington Post’s take on hi
“A shocking statistic about the quality of education research”
© 2013 Simon Cunningham, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Valerie Strauss at The Washington Post picked up my original post on the lack of replication in education research (This Is Interesting & Depressing: Only .13% Of Education Research Experiments Are Replicated) and wrote a much more complete piece on it. She titled it A shocking statistic about the quality of education research. I think it’s q
This Week In Web 2.0
In yet another attempt to get at the enormous backlog I have of sites worth blogging about, I’ve recently begin a regular feature called “The Week In Web 2.0.” (you might also be interested in The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2013). I also sometimes include tech tools that might not exactly fit the definition of Web 2.0: Tackk is a neat tool for creating online “posters” and is on T
Three Good Resources On Race & Racism
© 2012 Michael Fleshman, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio Regular readers (and not-so-regular readers, since the posts have been so popular) know that I’ve been collecting resources daily on the shooting death of Michael Brown — How Many Of Our Students Feel This Way? (Resources On The Shooting Death of Michael Brown). Those Michael Brown resources are part of a broader “The Best” list that has also
Excellent Redesign For Site Highlighting UK Museum Interactives
Show.me, the popular site that collects interactives from museums throughout the United Kingdom, has just unveiled a brand-new (and sorely needed) redesign. It looks great! I’m adding it to The Best Collections Of Online Educational Games.
8-20-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Teaching Ideas For #Ferguson #MichaelBrown[View the story "Teaching Ideas For #Ferguson #Michael Brown" on Storify]by Larry Ferlazzo / 8h 8-19-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLarry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Monday’s Tweets About