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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 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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