A Look Back: 25 Of My Videos About InstructionI’ve made about 25 videos over the years, including quite a few animated ones with Education Week on differentiated instruction, learning transfer, and student motivation. I hope to do a few more next year if the pandemic calms down a bit. You can see them all here .
Saturday’s New Articles About School ReopeningsJamesDeMers / Pixabay Ordinarily, I’d add these new articles and videos to The Best Posts Predicting (& Showing) What Schools Look Like During The Pandemic . However, that list is just getting too massive. So, in the future, if you want to find these in one place, click here: School mask wars far from over is from CAL Matters. As New York Students Shed Masks, Elation Mixes With Trepidation is fro
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 2021 – PART ONE , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this we
A Look Back: Four Tools For Students To Create Their Own Online Art CollectionsI’m continuing my “A Look Back” series by looking at past “Best” lists and updating them. Pexels / Pixabay I first posted The Best Ways For Students To Create Their Own Online Art Collections in 2009, and have been revising and updating it since that time. Though it used to have many sites, most have been eclipsed by Google Arts and Culture . But there four that I think are useful, so check out t
“World Atlas 2.0” Looks Like A Pretty Amazing Visual Guide To The World – For Just About EverythingIn World Atlas 2.0 , you can click on any one of nearly 3,000 different data sets related to technology, population, education, etc, and a visual representation of it will show up on a world map. It’s very well done. I’m adding it to The Best Tools For Comparing Demographics Of Different Countries . You might also be interested in The Best Online Tools For Comparing The Physical Sizes Of Differen
Most Popular Posts Of The WeekI’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-to-ten 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
A Look Back: Eleven Ways To Create Comic Strips OnlineI’m continuing my “A Look Back” series by looking at past “Best” lists and updating them. 7089643 / Pixabay I originally posted The Best Ways To Make Comic Strips Online in 2008, and have been revising and updating it since that time. Now, it includes eleven online tools, including Make Beliefs Comix , Pixton , Witty Comics , ToonyTool , and many more, along with some useful lesson plans. Check t
I Don’t Think Many Of The Strategies Districts Are Hoping To Use To Respond To Pandemic Learning Challenges Are Going To Work. Here’s What I Think Might…PixLoger / Pixabay Many of our students have learned soooooo much during the pandemic that is not necessarily reflected in standardized test scores, which has been one reason that I have been so critical of the “learning loss” narrative (see Trying To Bring Research, Sanity, Teacher Expertise & Student Voice To The “Learning Loss” Discussion. ). Nevertheless, many of our students are facing acade
It’s “World Book Day” Today In The United Kingdom – Here Are Teaching & Learning ResourcesGellinger / Pixabay April 23rd has been declared “World Book Day” by UNESCO, though it’s celebrated on the first Thursday of March in the United Kingdom. You might be interested in The Best Resources For World Book Day — April 23rd or First Thursday Of March (Depending Where You Live).
This Teacher’s Recent Experience Of Throwing Things Against A Wall To See What SticksPublicDomainPictures / Pixabay I’m adding this post to Best Posts On Classroom Management : 1 student is very unfocused, tho has good days. When he has a good day, he’s unable to tell me what has made difference. Last week, after he had good day, I gave him some food, asked him 2 sit outside at a picnic table,& think for 10 min about what may have made difference 2/13 — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferl
“How Can You Measure a School’s Success? It’s Not Just Through Test Scores”How Can You Measure a School’s Success? It’s Not Just Through Test Scores is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Judge schools on how well they meet the needs of students, staff, and the community, say educators. Here are some excerpts:
A Look Back: Thirteen Tools For Creating Online AnimationsartLada / Pixabay I’m continuing my “A Look Back” series by looking at past “Best” lists and updating them. I first posted The Best Ways For Students To Create Online Animations in 2008, and have been updating it ever since. It now has thirteen online free or inexpensive tools, including I Wish You To , Sketch Canvas , Wick Editor , Biteable , and many more. Check out the list to see all of them,
SEL Weekly UpdateI’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 2021 – PART ONE. Finally, check out “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources . Here are this week’s picks: Celebrate to Win is from T
World Poetry Day Is On March 21st – Here Are Teaching & Learning ResourcesThe United Nations has declared March 21st to be World Poetry Day . You might be interested in The Best World Poetry Day Resources – Help Me Find More .
Research Studies Of The WeekI often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature . By the way, you mig
A Look Back: A Valedictory Speech For The Times At Our School’s Graduation This WeekendI thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . This post originally appeared in 2021: Editor’s Note: I was lucky enough to have Ariane Jasmin in my International Baccalaureate Theory Of Knowledge class, and found her to be brilliant, kind and generous. She was the valedictorian at
This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy IssuesHere are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here ): Will There Really Be a Mass Exodus of Teachers? is from Ed Week. Education, traditionally a strength, has Democrats on their heels is from The Washington Post. Boston Emerges As a New Frontier For Noncitizen Voting in Local Ele
A Few Thoughts – & Additional Resources – On GradingOpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay Teachers second-guess letter grades as they search for a fairer way is the headline of a new article in The Washington Post (and it has nearly 400 reader comments). I was interviewed for the article, though my thoughts weren’t included. I thought I’d share them here: I think far too much time and energy is spent on figuring out intricate grading procedures. Everybody
Tons Of New Useful Resources For Teaching & Learning About The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine13smok / Pixabay I’m continually – and very carefully – adding new resources to The Best Teaching & Learning Resources About The Russia/Ukraine Conflict , though I won’t keep writing new posts sharing them. Some of the new ones I’ve added over the past couple of days include good lesson plans, resources on comparing how Ukrainian refugees (and the war) are being treated with how refugees from non
Pins Of The WeekI’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 22,000 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 MOST POPULAR PINS OF 2020 Here
