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August’s (2014) Best Tweets — Part Three
Every 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 to those from whom I learned about them. Those are not included again in post. If you don’t use Twitter, you can
More Important Resources On Race & Racism
© 2012 Michael Fleshman, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio Here are new additions to A Collection Of Useful Posts, Articles & Videos On Race & Racism: The black-white gap in life expectancy is narrowing — but it’s still too wide is from Vox. Gordon Parks’ 1950s Photo Essay On Civil Rights-Era America Is As Relevant As Ever is from The Huffington Post. This is a great Louis CK piece on race. He
This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Valuable Posts & Articles On Education Policy – Part Two
© 2012 Brad Perkins, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio Usually, I just post one weekly “round-up” of recent posts on educational policy issues. However, this week there were quite a few, so here’s Part Two: For Reformers: An Important Paper on Worker Compensation and Incentives is by Paul Bruno, and is a very important piece. Thought it touches on a number of issues, I’m adding it to The Best Resource
Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
© 2011 Michael Coghlan, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | 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: Mary Ann Zehr shared an interesting article on How To Start Academic Conversations. I got tired just reading about what the researchers were having the teacher do in the
AUG 21
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.
AUG 20
Wednesday’s (2nd Week) Tweets About #Ferguson #MichaelBrown
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Watch This Video That Uses Legos To Illustrate U.S. Economic Inequality…& Get Depressed
© 2011 mSeattle, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Here are new additions to The Best Resources About Wealth & Income Inequality: The Brookings Institution has created this video to illustrate the lack of economic mobility in the United States to accompany this report: Rich Kid, Poor Kid: For 30 Years, Baltimore Study Tracked Who Gets Ahead from NPR is a good piece to read their shares similar concl
Great Video: “Seize The Day” – A Robin Williams Tribute
Melody Sheep has created this wonderful video:
Two Good Videos On How We Learn & How I Plan To Use Them In Class
© 2008 philosophygeek, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio The Khan Academy (you might want to see The Best Posts About The Khan Academy) recently unveiled three new videos that they have apparently developed with the help of Carol Dweck. Their main new one is pretty decent and titled “You Can Learn Anything.” It’s the first video embedded below. The one I really like, though is of John Legend. I don’t
Good Resources On Asking Questions
© 2007 Fabrice Florin, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio 5 Ways to Help Your Students Become Better Questioners is a nice piece by Warren Berger that appeared in Edutopia. I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles About Asking Good Questions. Here’s a short video of Warren Berger talking about the importance of questions. I’m adding it to The Best Videos Showing The Importance Of Asking Good Ques
All My Ed Week Posts From The Past 3 Years On Instructional Strategies – In One Place!
My latest Ed Week column includes links to all my posts there from the past three years on instructional strategies. Here’s an excerpt:
AUG 19
Teaching Ideas For #Ferguson #MichaelBrown
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This Year’s Phi Delta Kappa and Gallup Education Poll Just Released – Not Good News For President Obama
Every year for the past 45 years, Phi Delta Kappa and Gallup have done a Poll On Education issues. This year’s poll results were just released. You can read a summary and the entire poll results here. I’m going to just reprint parts of their press release because it gives a good overview of the results.First, though, here are links to my posts about the poll in previous years: This Year’s Phi Del
Tuesday’s Tweets About #Ferguson #MichaelBrown
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One Of Best Quick Twitter Exchanges On Ed You’ll Ever See
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New TED-Ed Video & Lesson: “How Do Tornadoes Form?”
Here’s a good new video and lesson from TED-ED. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Tornadoes:
This Is Sure Interesting: “Google May Start Handing Out Gmail Accounts to Kids”
© 2010 Robert Scoble, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Google May Start Handing Out Gmail Accounts to Kids just appeared in the Atlantic. Here’s how it begins: Google may be going kid-friendly. The tech giant is allegedly planning to offer accounts to children under the age of 13 for services like Gmail and YouTube, according to reports. The unprecedented move would allow children to navigate fully onli
The Best Resources For World Humanitarian Day
The United Nations has declared today to be World Humanitarian Day: World Humanitarian Day is a time to recognize those who face danger and adversity in order to help others. The day was designated by the General Assembly to coincide with the anniversary of the 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. World Humanitarian Day is also an opportunity to celebrate the spirit t
How NOT To Make Public Policy Change Happen
© 2010 Sean MacEntee, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio I’ve written a lot about my perspective around making social change — much of which is informed by my nineteen year former career as a community organizer. You can see a collection of these posts at The Best Posts & Articles On Building Influence & Creating Change. Two recent articles bring me to this topic again today. The first one appeare
Easily Create Your Own Fake Newspaper Front Page
One my most popular posts is about a tool called News Jack (see Easily Make Your Own Unique (& Fake) CNN, NY Times, Etc. Website With “News Jack”). Reader Uday Ogra tells me about a new similar site called Create News. Sites like these are engaging tools for students to write about historical and literary events, though I still wonder how they fit in with copyright laws….
Reminder: All Student Hand-Outs From My Student Motivation Book Available Free To Download
My two books on student motivation were published by Eye On Education, and older copies have a code you need to type on the Eye on Education website in order to access the many student figures in the book so they could be downloaded. Eye on Education was bought by Routledge, and I was pleased to see that they made all the all those figure freely available to everybody — whether you bought the bo
AUG 18
Monday’s Tweets About #Ferguson #MichaelBrown
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“The Best Advice On Engaging Parents At The Beginning Of The School Year”
© 2006 Sally Mahoney, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio I’ve just published The Best Advice On Engaging Parents At The Beginning Of The School Year over at my other blog, Engaging Parents In School. You might, or might not, find it useful.
This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Valuable Posts & Articles On Ed Policy
© 2012 Shutter Stutter, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Here are some relatively recent important posts and articles on educational policy issues: What’s the real purpose of educational benchmarking? is by Andy Hargreaves and appeared in The Washington Post. Why The Atlanta Testing Scandal Matters is from NPR. I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles About The Atlanta Testing Scandal. Professiona
“The History Project” Is A Great Resource For Teachers Everywhere
The History Project is led by educators in Pakistan and India who have developed a website and textbook that show each country’s interpretation of their histories — side by side! You can see an image above (reduced in size) from their site. Not only is a phenomenal resources for students in those two countries, it’s an extraordinary one for teachers everywhere. You can read more about it at NPR:
All My Ed Week Posts From The Past Three Years On Teacher & Administrator Leadership
I’ve just published a compilation of all my Ed Week posts on teacher and administrator leadership. Here’s an except: I’m adding it to The Best Posts, Articles & Videos On “Teacher Leadership.”
“Thinking Like A Scientist Can Help Overcome Allure Of Appearances”
© 2012 Bart Everson, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio As regular readers of this blog and my books know, I’m a big believer in inductive learning (see More Info On Why Inductive Learning Is So Effective and Is This The Most Important Research Study Of The Year? Maybe). One effective way to use inductive learning is through the use of data sets. You can see examples of these in my ASCD article, Get Organ
AUG 17
Sunday Tweets About #Ferguson #MichaelBrown
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Carlos Slim, “The World’s Richest Man,” Spends Some Of His $ For New Online Spanish-Language Ed Resources
© 2014 itupictures, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire, has just unveiled Acceso Latino, an online tool designed to be a “one-stop” site for Spanish-language “employment, education, health care, and civil rights” resources. Much of the site is just composed of links to materials others have created. However, there is some original material that could be useful to educa
AUG 16
Saturday Tweets About #Ferguson #MichaelBrown
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Nice NY Times Column Today: “Teaching Is Not a Business”
Teaching Is Not a Business is the title of David Kirp’s op-ed in The New York Times today. Here’s an excerpt: I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles Explaining Why Schools Should Not Be Run Like Businesses.
Video: ‘Don’t Look Down At Me”
From Laughing Squid: In Don’t Look Down on Me, little person filmmaker Jonathan Novick used a button camera to demonstrate how people in New York City react to his appearance. The resulting footage, which included inappropriate questions, offensive statements and surreptitious picture taking, along with some very insightful first-person narration make up this wonderful short documentary. The most
This Is Interesting & Depressing: Only 13% Of Education Research Experiments Are Replicated
You know all those education ideas that people, including me, write about as being research-based? Well, a new study has been published finding that only 13% of education research experiments are actually replicated by anybody else. And, of that 13%, sixty-eight percent were successfully replicated. However, that percentage dropped to 54% if you only included replication efforts that didn’t includ
Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
© 2005 kc7fys, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | 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: Teachers of English-Learners Feel Least Prepared for Common Core, Survey Finds is from Ed Week. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Common Core Standards &
Video: “1 World Trade Center Time Lapse”
I’m adding this video to The Best Sites To Help Teach About 9/11: 1 World Trade Center Time Lapse – Return of the Lower Manhattan Skyline from Benjamin Rosamond Photography on Vimeo.
Friday Night Tweets About #Ferguson #MichaelBrown
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“The Problem With Goal-Setting”
I’m a big fan of Daniel Coyle’s book, “The Talent Code,” (see “Teachers Need To Behave Like Johnny Appleseeds”: An Interview With Daniel Coyle) and a big proponent of student goal-setting (see The Best Posts On Students Setting Goals). Writer Samuel Thomas Davies has an intriguing analysis and interpretation of some of the research and Dan Coyle’s book. He suggests that the chances of people bein
