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NPR: How TV Can Make Kids Better Readers New York Times on how to use marketing to convince children to eat vegetablesWired : How to apply game theory to parentingMike Caulfield: “We have personalization [of learning] backwards” Catlin Tucker: “Invest in innovation [in teaching]” Catlin Tucker: Reasons to deliver content in the classroom as if you were “flipping the classroom” (i.e. through videos, readings, etc.) Work in Progress: It’s not as easy as it looks and that’s ok Mike Caulfield: “Choral Explanations” about sites (e.g. Quora and Stack Exchange) that let people explain the same idea in a variety of ways — very interesting read.Mike Caulfield: “A Reminder: What students do is hard” Mike Caulfied: “Plans vs. Planning” EdSurge: How to improve the security of Chromebooks when they aren’t at school Nettrice Gaskins: How Science Fiction and Marvel’s Black Panther make STEAM Relevant to Historically Oppressed and Under-represented Students – I wonder if there is a good parallel in the Classical worldThe Economist : How to make a good teacherEdSurge: The Role of Architecture in Education EdSurge: Why iPads (in 1:1 classes) have a positive impact on education EdSurge: Having students summarize a political campaign into social media – an interesting idea for asking students to synthesize and summarize information. I wonder how well this would work with ancient politicsEdSurge: A podcast about teaching empathy EdSurge: Strategies to overcome some struggles to implement Project-based learning EdSurge: Strategies for reinforcing/sharing the ideas of the growth mindset into your literature, science, and history classes — my earlier post on this mindset Teacher uses Star Trek for difficult conversations about race and gender EdSurge: 5 ways teachers can encourage deeper learning with personal devices – many of these suggestions are also appropriate for teaching students how to be more technologically literatePhotos For Class – a website that provides Creative Commons photos Screencastify – an app that allows you to create videos of your computer screen and you voice-over. It saves files in only a few extensions and it can save files to Google Drive easily — this site has a review.EdSurge: Using Project-based learning to bring creativity into the classroom Chronicle Vitae: It’s Time to Ditch Our Deadlines Catlin Tucker: A New Program and a New Approach to Homework Chronotope: The Semmelweiss Reflex: Why does Education Ignore Important Research? – with helpful links to neuroscience articlesNeaToday – The Lasting Impact of Mispronouncing Students’ Names Catlin Tucker: 21st Century Version of Ask 3 before You Ask Me which might do well to be read in concert with Mike Caulfield: Choral Explanations and his post on “We have personalization [of learning] backwards” ChronicleVitae: No, Banning Laptops is not the answer – a good read for more than just the focus on laptopsEdSurge: When Teachers Build EdTech, Awesomeness Ensues and Here’s Why Michael Feldstein: Student-centered education in software Catlin Tucker: Ditching Traditional Grades & My Online Gradebook EdSurge: The Secrets of Successful Virtual Co-Teaching EdSurge: Why the Growth Mindset isn’t working… yet Chronicle Vitae: Imposter Syndrome is definitely a thing Chronicle Vitae: Advice on being Advised Hapgood: Yes, Digital Literacy. But which one? Chronicle Vitae: A Plan is better than luck Chronicle Vitae: No, We’re not teaching composition all wrong (responding to “Are we teaching composition all wrong? “Chronotope: Amused to Death: Why the Internet should be kept out of the classroom Hapgood: The impulse to dive deeper Chronicle Vitae: Rethinking my exams Tim Harford: The Problem with Facts Guardian: My elite, segregated education changed me – but not in the way you’d think Eidolon: Ne plus ultra – Classics beyond the tenure track Mind/Shift: How Schools Can Help Students Develop A Greater Sense of Purpose Edsurge: Study Finds Classroom-Response ‘Clickers’ can ‘Impede Conceptual Understanding” Edsurge: As LinkedIn’s Video Library Grows, Company Says it Has no Plans to Compete with Colleges — the interview in this piece also talks about how provide better online contentGrit, Grace, and Growth Mindset: This I believe [about leadership]An EdSurge piece about the importance of meeting with students regularly to discuss progress and goals Chronicle Vitae: How to undermine your own authority (and encourage more active engagement by students)Chronicle Vitae: Why I don’t edit their rough drafts Chronicle Vitae: Obsessed with smartness Chronicle Vitae: Scholars talk writing: Advice from an editor Chronicle Vitae: Mastering the boring basics Chronicle Vitae: The Distracted Classroom Chronicle Vitae: Conserving your teaching energy (heavily focused on a lecturing style with good tips at the end for healthy living)Chronicle Vitae: Stalled in the writing Chronicle Vitae: A tenure track for teachers Chronotope: Five things I wished I knew when I started teaching Hapgood: The power of explaining to others
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