THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007

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THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... 

The latest news and resources in education since 2007

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL

by Larry Ferlazzo / 31min

BiljaST / Pixabay Six 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 2019 – PART ONE and THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART TWO. A

Columbus Day (aka Indigenous Peoples’ Day) Is On October 12th – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 54min

Columbus Day, also known as Indigenous Peoples’ Day in many communities, takes place on October 12th in the United States. You might be interested in The Best Online Resources About Christopher Columbus (& ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’). Many monuments to him have been taken down in the past year, so you might also want to check out The Best Resources For Teaching About Confederate Monuments . I’ve p

Depressing Statistic Of The Day That Is No Surprise: 79% Of Teachers Are White

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h

Race and Ethnicity of Public School Teachers and Their Students is a new report from The Institute of Education Sciences. To absolutely no one’s surprise, it shows that 79% of teachers in the United States are White (though the student population is a majority of people of color – see New & Revised: The Best Resources For Learning About The Ethnic & Racial Make-Up Of The U.S. Student Population )

Quote Of The Day: Pandemic Causes Ed Researchers To Look At Other Ways Than Tests To Measure Effectiveness

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h

Shut Out of Schools Due to Pandemic, Many Education Researchers Say Their Work Is ‘In Shambles ’ is an article in The 74 this is generally not very interesting. I mean, really? In the scheme of things, probably one of the last things we educators are concerned about this year is the professional plight of ed researchers (even though I know and respect quite a few of them). Even quotes from resear

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Everything You Wanted To Know About “Cool Online Tools” But Were Afraid To Ask

35by Larry Ferlazzo / 9h

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 “Cool Online Tools”: The Best Way

The “Little Rock Nine” Entered School On This Day In 1957 – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12h

Alexandra_Koch / Pixabay Today is an important day to remember. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About The “Little Rock 9” Today in 1957: 9 Black students—the Little Rock Nine—entered the all-white Central High School in Arkansas, escorted by U.S. troops. Their first day of school ended years of legal challenges and weeks of tense standoffs. For the students, however, th

Ed Tech Digest

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

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

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New Study Finds That Additional Social Studies Instruction Leads To Better Reading Comprehension

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

A new study from the Fordham Institute finds that schools get a bigger bang for their buck when it comes to reading instruction in the elementary grades by increasing Social Studies instructional time rather than increasing time in the Language Arts. At least, that’s the conclusion it pushes. It also points out that the key element is the background knowledge that students gain in social studies

September’s Most Popular Posts

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

As regular readers know, at the end of each week I share the five most popular posts from the previous seven days. I thought people might find it interesting to see a list of the ten most popular posts from the previous thirty days. You might also be interested in It’s The Thirteenth Anniversary Of This Blog – Here Are The Forty All-Time Most Popular Posts. Not to mention A LOOK BACK: 2020’S BEST

September’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 2,193 Of Them!

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Prawny / Pixabay Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,193 of them categorized here ). With the beginning of distance learning, I was only able to post one new one. Fortunately or unfortunately, though, it’s almost time for me to start compiling the “Best of 2020,” so there will be about thirty more coming down the pike over the next three mont

Everything You Wanted To Know About Going To College But Were Afraid To Ask

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

geralt / 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 Going to College

My Latest BAM! Radio Show Is On Supporting Muslim & Arab Students

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

My latest ten-minute BAM! Radio Show is on how we can best support Arab and Muslim students. I’m joined in the discussion by Dr. Sawsan Jaber, Dr. Nina Shoman-Dajani, and Abeer Shinnawi, who have also all contributed written commentaries to my Ed Week column. In fact, Dr. Jaber has guest-edited the series, which begins next week. I’m adding it to All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descriptions

Video: “The Largest Star in the Universe – Size Comparison”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

FelixMittermeier / Pixabay I’m adding this new video to The Best Web Tools That Show You Objects To Scale :

Video: “What Your Life Looks Like in Numbers”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

geralt / Pixabay I’m adding this new video from Bright Side to The Best Visualizations Of How People Spend Their Days :

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Zoom Adds The Ability Of Participants To Self-Select Their Breakout Rooms, But There Is A Catch

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

febrianes86 / Pixabay I’ve been writing about the upcoming Zoom feature to let participants select their own breakout rooms for awhile (see ZOOM ADDS FEATURES FOR EDUCATORS and ON SEPT. 21ST, ZOOM IMPLEMENTS A FEATURE TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO CHOOSE THEIR OWN BREAKOUT ROOMS ). They finally did it and, with some help from folks on Twitter, I’ve been able to figure it out. First, and most disappointedly,

My Favorite Posts That Appeared In September

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

I regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see older Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month (more recent lists can be found here ). You can also see my all-time favorites here . I’ve also been doing “A Look Back” series reviewing old favorite

Everything You Wanted To Know About Collaborative Learning But Were Afraid To Ask

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

Alexas_Fotos / 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 Collaborat

Lessons From Four Weeks Of Teaching Fulltime Distance Learning

22by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

johnhain / Pixabay I taught daily live online classes to English Language Learners (and less frequently to my IB Theory of Knowledge students), and had high attendance and student engagement. I learned a lot then and, with my co-author Katie Hull, wrote a first draft of a chapter on distance learning for ELLs that will appear in our next book. It was released for free by the publisher over the su

Wednesday’s Must Read Articles & Must-Watch Videos On School Reopening

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

ds_30 / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : What We Know About Coronavirus Cases in K-12 Schools So Far is from The NY Times. New Dashboard Tracks Coronavirus Cases In Schools Across 47 State is from NPR. As more schools offer in-person options, what happens to the students who stay virtual? is from USA Today. ‘No safety, no learni

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The Supreme Court Is In The News – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

skeeze / Pixabay The Supreme Court is obviously in the news these days. You might be interested in The Best Sites To Learn About The U.S. Supreme Court .

New TED-Ed Video & Lesson: “Is human evolution speeding up or slowing down?”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

Alexas_Fotos / Pixabay I’m adding TED-Ed’s new lesson and video to The Best Sites For Learning About Human Evolution :

“Banned Books Week” is Coming Up – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

Banned Books Week begins on September 27th. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Banned Books Week .

It’s National Voter Registration Day – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources About Voting

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

ArtJane / Pixabay It’s National Voter Registration Day today! Here are new related resources I’m adding to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION : ProPublica’s Pandemic Guide to Making Sure Your Vote Counts VoterGuide: We’re here to help is from CNN.

This Edutopia Video Offers A Critical Point About Something We Should Be Doing In Our Online Classrooms – & I Should Have Known It!

23by Larry Ferlazzo / 3d

Alexas_Fotos / Pixabay As we all know, we teachers need to be very sensitive to the SEL needs of our students all the time, and even more so when many of us are working in a distance learning environment. In addition to having about ten ten-minute individual meetings with students in video conferences each week (see “INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS” ARE THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF A SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY ORGANIZAT

Everything You Wanted To Know About Classroom Management But Were Afraid To Ask

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

ernestoeslava / 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 Classroom

Tuesday’s Must-Read Articles About School Reopening

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : As Schools Go Remote, Finding ‘Lost’ Students Gets Harder is from The NY Times. Learning Curve: Teacher Resigns Rather Than Expose Her Family To COVID-19 is from NPR. They Work Full Time. They Attend School. They’re Only Teenagers. is from The HuffPost. Duval Schools’ laptop gap impacts

“Strategies for Promoting Student Collaboration in a Distance Learning Environment”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

Strategies for Promoting Student Collaboration in a Distance Learning Environment is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Another teacher and I share strategies to encourage student collaboration in a remote or hybrid learning environment, including through group presentations and class-created “norms.” Here’s an excerpt:

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Most Popular Posts Of The Week

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

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 THIRTE

World Teachers’ Day Is On Oct. 5th – Here Are Related Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

Jorgeduardo / Pixabay World Teachers’ Day, held annually on October 5th since 1994 – when it was created by UNESCO – celebrates teachers worldwide (in the United States, National Teacher Day is Tuesday in the first full week of May). You might be interested in The Best Resources To Learn About World Teachers Day .

Everything You Wanted To Know About Assessment But Were Afraid To Ask

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

Wokandapix / 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 Assessment:

Zoom Adds Features For Educators

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d

Alexandra_Koch / Pixabay Zoom announced, and shared instructional videos, today about some new features for educators (none of which I thought were really that very useful). They had also previously announced that today was going to be the day they introduced a self-selecting option for breakout rooms (see ON SEPT. 21ST, ZOOM IMPLEMENTS A FEATURE TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO CHOOSE THEIR OWN BREAKOUT ROOMS

How Could I Have Not Known That Google Offers Free A.I. Powered Feedback On The Pronunciation Of Any Word?

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

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

New Study Finds That Teacher Leadership Results In Improved Learning For Students

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

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

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Ed Tech Digest

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

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

Everything You Wanted To Know About Art (& Creating It Online) But Were Afraid To Ask

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

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

Two Intriguing Articles About Innovative Voter Turn-Out Strategies

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

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

Monday’s Must-Read Articles & Must-Watch Videos About School Reopening

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

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”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 5d

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 Nice New Site For ELLS & Other Language Learners

60by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

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, that will expand). You choose a text, and then have a few options. You can follow along as it reads to you . You could also record what you just read and compar

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Everything You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask About Animals

20by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

Alexas_Fotos / 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 Animals: T

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL

by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

BiljaST / Pixabay Six 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 2019 – PART ONE and THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART TWO. A

Everything You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask About Active Citizenship & Social Change

by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

geralt / 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 Active Citizensh

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 2019 – PART TWO ): Can Covid-19 Take School Reform in a New and Different Direction? is from Larry Cuban. DeVos Vows to Withhold Desegregation Aid to Schools Over Transgender Athletes is from The NY Times. DeVos vows to require stand

Good NY Times Interactive Shows You How Climate Change Is Challenging Your Own Community

by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

geralt / Pixabay Every Place Has Its Own Climate Risk. What Is It Where You Live? is a new interactive from The NY Times. You click on your county, and and it will least which climate challenges face your community. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn About Climate Change .

How Should We Respond To Those Who Say We Should Keep Politics Out Of The Classroom?

by Larry Ferlazzo / 6d

I hope you’ll respond to this upcoming question of the week at my Ed Week column. You can share your answers in a variety of ways, including by leaving a comment on this post.

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