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Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007


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Three Accessible Ways To Search For & Find My “Best” Lists
by Larry Ferlazzo / 6h
(Note: I am going to publish this same post once each month to remind regular readers and inform newer ones about how to access my “Best” lists) As regular readers know, I have about 2,000 categorized and regularly updated “Best” lists. You can find all of them in broad categories here . The link to that page can also be found at the top right of my blog: My Best Of Series I also have them all on
SEL Weekly Update
by Larry Ferlazzo / 6h
I’ve recently begun this weekly post where I’ll be sharing resources I’m adding to The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources or other related “Best” lists. You might also be interested in The Best Social Emotional Learning Resources Of 2018 – So Far. Finally, check out “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources . Here are this week’s picks: Making SEL More Relevant to
Two New Engaging Interactives On Climate Change
by Larry Ferlazzo / 6h
andreas160578 / Pixabay Two very engaging interactives about climate change recently were published online, and they both use similar strategies – you are challenged to answer questions, including ranking things in order, and then are provided with feedback on how you did and what the correct answers are… There’s no question this kind of interaction would attract the interest of students. I’m add

YESTERDAY

New Teaching & Learning Resources About Mt. Everest
by Larry Ferlazzo / 8h
Eknbg / Pixabay Here are new additions to The Best Sites For Learning About Mount Everest : They are bit of mixed bags in term of quality, but Geography Pods and Montana State University both have a bunch of Everest-related lesson plans. Here are some new videos from CNN: What climbing Everest taught @bonitanorris about what's really important in life #FridayMotivation pic.twitter.com/n4Nxd9hkRA
The International Day for Biological Diversity & Endangered Species Day Are Both In May – Here Are Related Resources
by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h
Des Morris via Compfight May 22nd has been named The International Day for Biological Diversity by the United Nations. Started in 2006 by the U.S. Congress, Endangered Species Day is the third Friday of May. You might be interested in The Best Resources For World Biodiversity Day (& Endangered Species Day) .
Brown v. Board of Education Is Sixty-Five Years Old This Month – Here Are Related Resources
by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d
Thisabled / Pixabay Brown v. Board of Education was decided sixty-five years ago this month . You might be interested in: The Best Commentaries On The 60th Anniversary Of Brown vs. Board Of Education The Best Resources For Learning About School Desegregation (& Segregation) – Help Me Find More

MAY 02

New Resources On Race & Racism
by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d
I’m adding these new resources to various “Best” lists. You can find links to all of those many lists that relate to race and racism at “Best” Lists Of The Week: Resources For Teaching & Learning About Race & Racism: Still Separate, Still Unequal: Teaching about School Segregation and Educational Inequality is from The NY Times Learning Network. I’m adding it to Revised & Updated: Useful Resource
Free Resources From All My Books
by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d
Every few months, I reprint this post so that new subscribers learn about these resources. I have many free resources, including excerpts and student hand-outs, available from all my books. Clicking on the covers will lead you to them. Look for a fourth book in my student motivation series (out in 2022) and a second edition of The ESL/ELL Teachers Survival Guide (out in 2021), along with three bo
Pins Of The Week
by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d
I’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 17,000 resources there that I haven’t shared on this blog. I thought readers might find it useful if I began sharing a handful of my most recent “pins” each week (I’m not sure if you can see them through an RSS Reader – you might have to click through to the original post). You might also be interested in My Seven Most Popular Pins In 2018

MAY 01

“What Are Effective Ways to Use Tech in Social Studies Classes?”
by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d
What Are Effective Ways to Use Tech in Social Studies Classes? is the new question-of-the-week at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave your responses in the comments section there or here…
Amazing Holocaust Resource Will Be Used In Classrooms Everywhere
by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d
carlosftw / Pixabay What If A Girl In The Holocaust Had Instagram (also called Eva Stories) is an amazing Instagram story that dramatizes the actual diary account of Eva Heyman, a teenager who perished in the Holocaust. I learned about it from Julia Jee , and from The New York Times article, A Holocaust Story for the Social Media Generation. What Social Studies teacher will not use it in class? I
Leonardo da Vinci Died On This Day 500 Years Ago – Here Are Related Resources
by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d
janeb13 / Pixabay Leonardo da Vinci died at Clos Lucé, France, on May 2, 1519. You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About Leonardo Da Vinci .
Most Popular Posts Of The Week
by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d
I’m making a change in the content of the regular feature. In addition to sharing the top five posts that have received the most “hits” in the preceding seven days (though they may have originally been published on an earlier date), I will also include the top five posts that have actually appeared in the past week. Often, these are different posts. You might also be interested in IT’S THE TWELFT
Powerful Video On School Active Shooter Drills: “Generation Lockdown — March For Our Lives”
by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d
Peter Cedric Rock Smith via Compfight March For Our Lives (see The Best Resources For Learning About “The March For Our Lives” ), an organization coming out of the Parkland high school shootings, just unveiled this powerful PSA. I’m adding it to the other resources I’ve shared on gun violence .
Ed Tech Digest
by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d
Six years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “Ed Tech Digest” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in The Best Ed Tech Resources Of 2018 – So Far , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . You
Useful List Of “Unreliable Websites”
by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d
john-i / Pixabay I have an extensive collection of materials at The Best Tools & Lessons For Teaching Information Literacy – Help Me Find More . Yesterday, I learned through Alexander Russo of an excellent addition to the list: Poynter, the very respected journalism organization, has created an online collection called UnNews: An index of unreliable news websites . It lists a bunch of sites, with

APR 30

“The Value of Having Students Evaluate Teachers”
by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d
The Value of Having Students Evaluate Teachers is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. This three-part series students evaluating teachers is “wrapped-up” today by Shaeley Santiago, Amy Fast, Sheila B. Robinson, Ed.D, Jennie Farnell, Gary Armida, and Douglas Reeves Here are some excerpts: I’m adding it to Best Posts On Students Evaluating Classes (And Teachers) .
My Flipboard Magazine Is Updating Again, So There Are Seven Different Ways To Subscribe To This Blog
by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d
Readers had been able to subscribe to posts from this blog for several years through Flipboard, but it stopped updating a few months ago. The problem has been fixed (thanks to Sue Waters!), so you can now subscribe to it here . There are many other ways you can subscribe to this blog for free, too. You can: Subscribe by a RSS Reader . One popular RSS Readers is Feedly (though there are many other

APR 29

“Student Feedback on Teachers Should Be a ‘Part of More Classrooms'”
by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d
Student Feedback on Teachers Should Be a ‘Part of More Classrooms’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column, part two in a series. In it, Dr. PJ Caposey, Kate Wolfe Maxlow, Karen Sanzo, Rachael Williams, Andrea Clark and Donna L. Shrum discuss whether students should evaluate teachers. Here are some excerpts:
Video: “Rohingya crisis: Through the eyes of a refugee child”
by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d
skeeze / Pixabay I’m adding this new video from the UN Refugee Agency The Best Resources For Learning About The Rohingya Refugee Crisis :
New TED-Ed Video & Lesson: “How does the stock market work?”
by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d
Pexels / Pixabay TED-Ed’s new lesson and video seems to me does a decent job of explaining – simplistically – how the stock market works…until the last few seconds. At that point, it becomes a cheerleader for how everyone can invest in it the way very rich people can. Listen, I’m invested in the stock market, too, but I don’t have the naive view that I have the same access to it, and to related i
New Wash. Post Animated Video On A School Shooting: “12 seconds of gunfire”
by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d
Here’s how The Washington Post describes this video: 12 seconds of gunfire: The true story of a school shooting” is a powerful virtual reality experience produced by The Washington Post, based on an unforgettable front-page article by 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist John Woodrow Cox. The story is illustrated in an immersive 360-degree film by award-winning animator Wesley Allsbrook (“Dear Angelica”)
One Way I’m Promoting “Transfer Of Learning” With My Students – Handout & Videos Included
by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d
geralt / Pixabay Transfer of Learning, or Learning Transfer, is an obviously critical part of what we teachers hope to accomplish – we want our students to apply what they are learning with us in new contexts. I’ve written a lot about it in my books, have an extensive related “Best” list (see The Best Resources For Learning About The Concept Of “Transfer” — Help Me Find More _), have another “Bes
Today Is “International Dance Day” – Check Out This Interactive Lesson I Created For The NY Times
by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d
Myriams-Fotos / Pixabay Today is “International Dance Day.” Awhile back, I created this related interactive lesso n for The NY Times Learning Network. You might also be interested in All My NY Times Posts For English Language Learners – Linked With Descriptions .

APR 28

“Ways to Have Students Evaluate Classes”
by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d
Ways to Have Students Evaluate Classes is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, Roxanna Elden, Adeyemi Stembridge, Kathy Dyer, Sheila M. Wilson and Madeline Whitaker Good share their ideas about students evaluating teachers and classes. Here are some excerpts:
Updated & Revised: The Best ESL/EFL Blogs – Share Your Favorites!
by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d
Prawny / Pixabay I have a very – and I mean very – outdated Best ESL-EFL Blogs list. Instead of revising it for the first time in years, I decided to start anew by sharing my favorites and invite readers to add their own in the comments. You might also be interested in my British Council post, The Top Blogs and Resource Sites For Teachers Of English Language Learners. Here they are (in order to m
More Census Resources
by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d
geralt / Pixabay The U.S. Supreme Court heard the court case this week on adding the citizenship question to the next Census, and it doesn’t look good. I’m adding the following resources to The Best Articles Explaining Why It Would Be Terrible To Add An Immigration Status Question To The Census: Supreme Court Hears Case Watched by Educators on Census’ Citizenship Question is from Ed Week. K-12 Ai
This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues
by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d
Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in THE BEST ARTICLES, VIDEOS & POSTS ON EDUCATION POLICY IN 2018 – PART TWO ):’ Majority of Californians supports teachers striking over wages, poll finds is from The Sacramento Bee. Inside Detroit’s efforts to address one of the biggest obstacles to better schools: sky-high absenteeism is fr
Federal Reserve Bank Publishes Comics For Middle & High School Classes
by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d
Thanks to an article in today’s New York Times ( Splat! Bam! It’s the Federal Reserve to the Rescue ), I learned that the Federal Reserve Bank publishes comic books, along with lesson plans for how to use them in middle and high school , about economics. They look pretty accessible to me. I don’t teach Economics, but I’ve certainly see economics textbooks. I suspect most students would welcome a
Helpful “Test Prep” Resources
by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d
geralt / Pixabay Many of us are still in the middle of standardized test-taking season. I have lots of useful resources at Best Posts On How To Prepare For Standardized Tests (And Why They’re Bad) . Jennifer Binis recently tweeted out a number of materials I’m adding to the list: This is a short, accessible piece from @jaymctighe that gets at more thinking about test prep. Recognizing a lot of it

APR 27

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d
BiljaST / Pixabay Five years ago I began this 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. You might also be interested in The Best Resources, Articles & Blog Posts For Teachers Of ELLs In 2018 – So Far and THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2018 – PART TWO . A
Video: “Top 10 Most Unique Bridges in the World”
by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d
Free-Photos / Pixabay I’m adding this new video from MojoTravel to The Best Images Of Spectacular Bridges (& How Students Can Make Their Own) :
NY Times Video: “The Secret History of Muslims in the U.S.”
by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d
Afshad / Pixabay This is a great video The NY Times produced a few months ago, but I just learned about it:
Ramadan Is Next Month – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d
mohamed_hassan / Pixabay This year, Ramadan will begin in the evening of Sunday, May 5th and it ends in the evening of Tuesday, June 4th. You might be interested in The Best Sites To Teach & Learn About Ramadan .
This Is Interesting: Bloom & Maslow Never Used Pyramids To Explain Their Ideas
by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d
Walkerssk / Pixabay I’ve previously shared a guest post from one of the developers of the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy explaining how neither Bloom or the creators of the Revised version every used a pyramid to explain their research (see Guest Post From Lorin W. Anderson, Co-Author Of The Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy and “Knowledge” & Bloom’s Pyramid ). Now, today, Scientific American has published an a
Just Sent-Out Free Monthly Email Newsletter
by Larry Ferlazzo / 7d
geralt / Pixabay I’ve just mailed out the April issue of my very simple free monthly email newsletter . It has over 3,000 subscribers, and you can subscribe here . Of course, you can also join the eighteen thousand others who subscribe to this blog daily. Here Are 8 Ways You Can Subscribe For Free…
Big Week For Our Long-Term English Language Learners
by Larry Ferlazzo / 7d
Clker-Free-Vector-Images / Pixabay As regular readers know, this year our school has been doing a pilot Long-Term English Language Learner support class incorporating a number of strategies to support our students. Students received many “pre-assessments” in September, as did a control group of LTELLs. This coming week, we do the “post-assessments” (last week, both groups completed the ELPAC, the
Two Very Useful Climate Change Visuals
by Larry Ferlazzo / 7d
Gellinger / Pixabay I’m adding these two very useful visuals to The Best Sites To Learn About Climate Change : Here’s an impressive animation: Animation: The countries with the largest cumulative CO2 emissions since 1750 Ranking 
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