Saturday, March 5, 2022

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




A Look Back: 25 Of My Videos About Instruction
I’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 Reopenings
JamesDeMers / 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 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 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 Collections
I’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 Everything
In 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 Week
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-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

MAR 03

A Look Back: Eleven Ways To Create Comic Strips Online
I’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

MAR 02

This Teacher’s Recent Experience Of Throwing Things Against A Wall To See What Sticks
PublicDomainPictures / 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
A Look Back: Thirteen Tools For Creating Online Animations
artLada / 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 Update
I’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

MAR 01

Research Studies Of The Week
I 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 Weekend
I 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 Issues
Here 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 Grading
OpenClipart-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 Ukraine
13smok / 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

FEB 28

Pins Of The Week
I’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
Tuesday’s New Articles & Videos On School Reopenings – California Lifts School Mask Mandate Edition
ArtRose / 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: San Francisco public schools won’t drop masks despite city’s health officials and California lifting mandate is from The San F
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. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON INSTRUCTION IN 2021 – PART ONE . Here are this week’s picks: Opportunities for Student Decision-Making is from Edutopia. I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles On Student Engagement . Hardship a
A Look Back: Wash. Post Publishes My Commentary On “Accelerated Learning” & “Learning Loss”
I 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: The kind of teaching kids need right now is the headline of my latest column in The Washington Post. It’s a commentary on the two latest buzzwords in education, “accelerated learning” and “learnin

FEB 27

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 2021 – PART ONE , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this we
A Look Back: New Activity I’m Using With ELLs: “Critical Thinking Dialogues”
I 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: geralt / Pixabay I haven’t done a very good job promoting speaking practice with my ELL History class this year (it certainly hasn’t helped that – up until this past week – we had been on full-tim
Just Sent-Out Free Monthly Email Newsletter
geralt / Pixabay I’ve just mailed out the March, 2022 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…
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
“2 Years on, What Have We Learned About Teaching in a Pandemic?”
2 Years on, What Have We Learned About Teaching in a Pandemic? is the headline of my latest Education Week column. In it, My friend, colleague, and co-author Katie Hull Sypnieski and I share our reflections as we approach the two-year anniversary of pandemic teaching. Here are some excerpts:
New Ukraine Teaching & Learning Resources
padrinan / Pixabay Here are new additions to The Best Teaching & Learning Resources About The Russia/Ukraine Conflict : A historical timeline of post-independence Ukraine is from The PBS NewsHour. Here is Zelensky’s speech to the Ukrainian and Russian people with English subtitles before war broke out. Worth watching in full: pic.twitter.com/q2bo45Gm0o — Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) February

FEB 26

Sunday’s New Articles On School Reopenings
leo2014 / 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: It would be nice if the cdc remembers that adults are in schools, too https://t.co/svwrJXQ3AH pic.twitter.com/KwDJs5nB15 — Lar
Most Popular Posts Of The Week
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-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
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 2021. Also, check out A Collection Of My Best Resources On Teaching English Language Learners. In additi
A Look Back: We Should Encourage Parent Engagement, But Not Parent Bullying
I 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: jondometita / Pixabay As regular readers know, I have been a loud advocate of parent “engagement,” a much stronger perspective than parent “involvement” (see Chart: Useful Summary Of The Differenc