Video: “Drone flies above lava-spewing volcano in Iceland”12019 / Pixabay In case you haven’t seen it already, I’m adding this amazing video to The Best Sites For Learning About Volcanoes :
“Integrating Critical Thinking Into the Classroom”Integrating Critical Thinking Into the Classroom is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Four educators offer suggestions on helping students develop critical-thinking skills, including through the use of “evaluative praise.” Here are some excerpts:
Tuesday’s Must-Read Articles About School Reopeningsgeralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING (& SHOWING) WHAT SCHOOLS LOOK LIKE DURING THE PANDEMIC (you might also be interested in SCHOOLS WENT REMOTE A YEAR AGO – HERE ARE MY CHOICES FOR THE BEST PIECES WRITTEN ABOUT SCHOOL REOPENING SINCE THEN): Less than 30% of students ready to return to LAUSD campuses, survey shows is from The L.A. Times. Schools already testing stu
What Is The Best Teaching Advice You’ve Received Or Have Given?This is next week’s question at my Education Week column. Feel free to respond in the ways listed on the image, or just leave a comment here on this post. I think it will be a great series!
Interesting Interactive: “Who Americans Spend Their Time With, by Age”geralt / Pixabay Who Americans Spend Their Time With, by Age is an interesting interactive from Visual Capitalist, and you can see their summary of it here. I’m adding it to The Best Visualizations Of How People Spend Their Days (the data is based on pre-COVID info).
Ed Tech DigestTen 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 TWO , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this we
New Study Finds That The Presence Of Immigrant Students In Schools Helps Everybody, But Totally Misses Obvious ReasonA new study, titled Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students , by David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Riccardo Marchingiglio, Umut Özek & Paola Sapienza, comes to conclusions that many teachers already knew – that the presence of immigrant students definitely does not negatively impact non-immigrant students and, in fact, results in increased achievement
“Eight Instructional Strategies for Promoting Critical Thinking”Eight Instructional Strategies for Promoting Critical Thinking is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Four educators share tips for supporting the development of critical thinking in the classroom. Here are some excerpts:
Monday’s Must-Read Articles & Must-Watch Videos On School Reopeningsmoritz320 / Pixabay California adopts 3-foot-spacing rule for classrooms, changing reopening equation is from The L.A. Times. Education secretary says school in the fall ‘will look more like what it was before Covid’ is from CNN. This is a video from The Wall Street Journal : 3 different parent poll
