- NPR: How TV Can Make Kids Better Readers
- New York Times on how to use marketing to convince children to eat vegetables
- Wired: How to apply game theory to parenting
- Mike 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 world
- The Economist: How to make a good teacher
- EdSurge: 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 politics
- EdSurge: 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 literate
- Photos 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 articles
- NeaToday – 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 laptops
- EdSurge: 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 content
- Grit, 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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