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I wanted to confirm today that I was pronouncing the word “hubris” correctly (why I wanted to say that word is a topic for another blog post). So, I searched “How do you pronounce hubris?” And something like what you see in the image at the top of this blog post appeared. You can click on the audio to hear it – at regular speed or slow. AND you can record yourself saying the word and it will give
TheDigitalArtist / Pixabay Echoing previous studies highlighted in The Best Posts, Articles & Videos On “Teacher Leadership” — Contribute More! , a new study, The association between teacher leadership and student achievement: A meta-analysis , finds that teacher leadership results in increased student learning: Teacher leadership has a small positive relationship with student achievement (r = .1
Nine years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “” 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 2020 – PART ONE , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this w
Skitterphoto / Pixabay I have over 2,100 frequently revised and updated “Best” lists on just about every subject imaginable, and you can find them listed three different ways in three different places (see Three Accessible Ways To Search For & Find My “Best” Lists ). I’m starting to publish a series where each day I will highlight the “Best” lists in a separate category. Today, it’s on Art: The B
geralt / Pixabay There will be a lot of class lessons over the next six weeks on the elections. I’ve previously posted about innovative (to some campaign operatives, but not to community organizers) strategies to persuade voters (see No Surprise To Organizers: Two-Way Conversation More Successful Than One-Way Communication In Changing ). Here are a couple of new articles about similarly “innovati
mohamed_hassan / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : With COVID-19 complicating enrollment counts, public schools brace for impact on funding is from USA Today. How One District Got Its Students Back Into Classrooms is from The NY Times. Running a Virtual School on Chicago’s West Side is from The New Yorker. Families face the deman
Movies That Can Teach the Teachers is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four educators share movies or shows that have helped them become betters, including the importance of nurturing students’ passions and lifting up student voice. Here are some excerpts:
Speaky Reads looks like a very useful site for language learners, and it’s free – for now (it looks like they might charge in the future. It has a library that appears for now to be comprised of literature in the public domain (hopefully,
