Saturday, February 27, 2021

THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION 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


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
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 2020. Also, check out A Collection Of My Best Resources On Teaching English Language Learners. In additi
My Most Popular Tweets Of The Month
PhotoMIX-Company / Pixabay I used to post weekly collections of my best tweets, and used Storify to bring them together. Unfortunately, Storify went under. Fortunately, however, Wakelet was a new tool that was able to import all of a person’s Storifys. So you can see all those previous Twitter “Best” lists here . You might also be interested in MY MOST POPULAR TWEETS OF THE YEAR and RECOMMENDATIO
Just Sent-Out Free Monthly Email Newsletter
geralt / Pixabay I’ve just mailed out the March 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…
February’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 2,233 Of Them!
Prawny / Pixabay Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,233 of them categorized here ): NOT NECESSARILY THE “BEST,” BUT SOME USEFUL RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT THE MARS ROVER PERSEVERANCE THE BEST TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES ABOUT AMANDA GORMAN’S POETRY A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES TO SUPPORT CONCURRENT/HYBRID TEACHING

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Saturday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings
geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Teachers Unions Aren’t the Obstacle to Reopening Schools is from New York Magazine. Who has the power to reopen California classrooms? is from CAL Matters. Odessa is from The NY Times.
This Is Intriguing: Quizizz Adds “Adaptive Question Banks”
As regular readers know, I’m a huge fan of Quizizz , the free and incredibly useful learning game tool. You can search ‘Quizizz” on my blog, and you’ll see all the ways I use it, descriptions of all its features, and the numerous “Best” lists that include it. One of the things I like most about it is that the question and and the answers appear on the same screen for students, which not only make

FEB 25

February’s Most Popular Posts
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 FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS BLOG – HERE ARE THE FORTY ALL-TIME MOST POPULAR POSTS . Not to mention THE TWENTY MOST POPULAR
Friday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings
Free-Photos / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : English school leaders despair over new rules on Covid tests and masks is from The Guardian. COVID-19 vaccines prioritized for California educators will focus on struggling communities is from The L.A. Times. San Diego Unified Announces Target Date to Reopen Schools is from NBC. The
13,000 Unaccompanied Minor Refugees Expected In May
Scoop: Border officials project 13,000 child migrants in May has just been published by Axios. There were 3,300 in December, and I then wrote Should Schools Start Preparing For A Wave Of Unaccompanied Minor Refugees? This could be be a repeat of the 2014 crisis, when over 60,000 unaccompanied minors came to the United States (see What was the 2014 child and family migrant crisis? ). Every unaccom
Two New Online Geography Games
Here are two new additions to The Best Online Geography Games : City Guesser gives you the option of first choosing the world, or different areas of the word, and then shows you videos of a location. You guess where on a map, and then you’re shown how close you were to the correct answer. One intriguing option is just having it show you monuments from throughout the world. GeoQuiz lets you name o

FEB 24

My Favorite Posts That Appeared In February
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
Thursday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings
stux / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : L.A. school reopening contingent on full staff vaccinations, making for uncertain date is from The L.A. Times. This guy is living in a world where right now where schools in his district are directly ignoring state guidelines to make tchrs, students & their families safe & he wants everybo
Why Is The Biden Administration Decision To Have Standardized Tests This Year A Dumb One? Let Me Count The Ways
OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay In BIDEN ADMINISTRATION MAKES ITS FIRST DUMB MOVE AND REQUIRES STANDARDIZED TESTS THIS YEAR , I shared a number of articles highlighting both lack of wisdom involved in ever placing much weight into them, as well as specific critiques against doing them this year. Since the decision, many people much smarter than me have come out with even more clear-headed analysis

FEB 23

Ed Tech Digest
Ten 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
“Thirteen Instructional Strategies for Supporting ELL Newcomers”
Thirteen Instructional Strategies for Supporting ELL Newcomers is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Five educators share effective instructional strategies to use with English-language- learner newcomers, including using images and games. Here are some excerpts: I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES TO HELP EDUCATORS TEACH ELL NEWCOMERS .
Wednesday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings
AbsolutVision / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : ‘Impending doom’: teachers on the ‘big bang’ reopening of schools in England is from The Guardian. California teachers move to the front of the vaccine line in most counties is from Ed Source. How To Reopen Schools is from The NY Times. Can schools require teachers to get the COVI
My Latest BAM! Radio Show Is On Helping Our Students Develop Critical Thinking Skills
How to assist our students develop critical thinking skills is the topic of my latest ten-minute BAM! Radio Show. I’m joined in the conversation by Dara Laws Savage, Meg Riordan and Patrick Brown, who have also all contributed written commentaries to my Ed Week column. I’m adding it to All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descriptions .

FEB 22

Very Good Video On “Text Engineering” To Make It More Accessible To ELLs & Everybody Else
sipa / Pixabay “Engineering the text” is what teachers can do to make text more accessible – we can create sections of the article that have headings and white space, add vocabulary definitions and do a whole lot more.. If you can’t get an editable version of the assessment, you could take a picture using the Genius Scan app and then edit it. You can see an example here (scroll down). Edutopia ha
Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
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 2020. Also, check out A Collection Of My Best Resources On Teaching English Language Learners. In additi
Tuesday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings
stevepb / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : N ewsom touts Long Beach as model for COVID-19 vaccinations, schools reopening is from The L.A. Times. LAUSD to launch COVID-tracking app that generates a code for students to enter campus is from L.A. Times. The Struggle To Reopen Schools: Teachers Don’t Feel Safe; Kids Are Struggling
Biden Administration Makes Its First Dumb Move And Requires Standardized Tests This Year
Schools must still give standardized tests this year, Biden administration says provides details of the first dumb move by the Biden Administration. Don’t we have enough to deal with right now? You might also be interested in: Best Posts On How To Prepare For Standardized Tests (And Why They’re Bad) The Best Articles Describing Alternatives To High-Stakes Testing — Help Me Find More
This – Right Here – Is What We Need To Do To Reach Our Disappeared Students. This Means Most Districts Won’t Do It
‘Ghosted’: Students Disappear From Vermont Classrooms During Pandemic could be written about the majority of school districts in the country. And, the recommendation in the above image that comes from that article is what also needs to happen in the majority of school districts in the country. It’s very similar to the advice I offered in my recent Washington Post column, Teacher: What’s missing f

FEB 21

A Beginning List Of The Best Resources To Support Concurrent/Hybrid Teaching
Shafin_Protic / Pixabay As I shared yesterday, all the teachers and I believe most of the school-based administrators learned via a presentation at our school board meeting that they want us back in the classroom teaching in early May (see UMM, IT LOOKS LIKE WE MIGHT BE GOING HYBRID SOON….). Since they haven’t begun talking with our union yet, it’s too early to tell if it’s actually going to happ
Monday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings
llorcraft / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Guards, Generosity, Patience: A Volunteer Effort To Vaccinate Public School Workers is from NPR. No quick path to reopening L.A. Unified is emerging as school year slips away is from The L.A. Times. Will reserving vaccines for California teachers break school reopening logjam? is from
John Lewis Was Born On This Day In 1940 – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources About His Life
John Lewis was born on this day in 1940. You might be interested in TERRIBLE NEWS: JOHN LEWIS HAS PASSED – LEARN ABOUT HIS LIFE . John Lewis was born on this day in 1940. We miss his leadership, but we are grateful for his years of activism and the path he and others so clearly charted: a path forward, laid by coalitions of those who kept marching for justice. Rest in power. https://t.co/UzoV9GcB
Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week
Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. Of course, this is a crazy time for “classroom” instruction…. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON INSTRUCTION IN 2020 – PART TWO . Here are this week’s picks: Tell Me Something Funny is from Character Lab, and reminds us that not only
“Ten Ways to Use Retrieval Practice in the Classroom”
is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Five educators explain why and how they use retrieval practice in their classroom. Here are some excerpts: I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Retrieval Practice .
Malcolm X Was Assassinated On This Day Fifty-Six Years Ago – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay Malcolm X was assassinated 56 years ago today. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning & Teaching About Malcolm X . My father in Cairo weeks before he’d be assassinated at age 39. Despite following his every move an FBI informant called him, “a man of high moral character who neither smokes nor drinks.” He spoke truth to power, and we know that tru

FEB 20

Umm, It Looks Like We Might Be Going Hybrid Soon….
Our school district hasn’t had any negotiations with our union about it, but it appears we might be shifting from full-time distance learning to a hybrid model pretty soon – at least, according to the presentation made at our local School Board meeting a thirty-six hours ago (as you can see from the slide reproduced at the top of this post). It all has to be negotiated, so who knows if it’s going
Not Necessarily The “Best,” But Some Useful Resources For Teaching About The Mars Rover Perseverance
WikiImages / Pixabay I don’t have time this weekend to pull together an extensive list on NASA’s Perseverance, but I thought I’d share a few that I think are particularly useful. You might also be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About The Mars Rover Curiosity : We all have to start with NASA’s teaching resources themselves: the Perseverance mission main page , collection of images , and

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