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June 2012 - Posts
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Here’s my monthly round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 924 of them categorized here): The Best Places For ESL/EFL/ELL Teachers To Get Online Professional Development The Best Sites For Learning About The Colorado … Continue Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest Check out the full New York Times article, Crime Report Manipulation Is Common Among New York Police, Study Finds. I’m adding it to The Best Resources Showing Why We Need To Be “Data-Informed” … Continue Read More...
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GUEST POST by Ben Curran Ben Curran is co-founder of Engaging Educators, a company dedicated to helping educators shift toward 21st Century learning environments. He also works as a full time instructional coach at a school in Detroit, Michigan. He … Read More...
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“More Than A Number” is a song written by educator Barry Lane (author of numerous books about teaching writing) and Barry Lane & Lyrics by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater. Here’s a message from them: The minds and spirits of children will … Continue reading → Read More...
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Oldest Sound Recording Resurrected from Paper is a short Reuters video about how a scientist digitized a picture of “record” that appeared in a 1890 German magazine and was able to play what was recorded on it. I’m adding it … Continue reading → Read More...
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The Guardian recently published an interactive called Peoples under threat around the world: map. Here’s how they describe it: How safe are indigenous peoples around the world? This map shows country rankings according to the latest Peoples Under Threat Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The Colorado Wildfires: Here’s an Associated Press interactive. Obama tours site of deadly fire in Colorado is from CNN. Reader Photos of the Western Wildfires is from The … Continue reading Read More...
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Watching Syria’s War is a truly exceptional multimedia presentation from The New York Times. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About What’s Happening In Syria. Read More...
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Presentista is a new web tool that seems pretty cool and easy to use — you can drag-and-drop images and videos from web and create a presentation with a fairly unique interface. I don’t have time this weekend to play … Continue reading → Read More...
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Check out this video of polar bear cubs at play: I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Polar Bears. Read More...
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The New York Times today has an interactive called “Build A Pop Song.” Pick the tracks you like, and then you’re given a link to your creation. It’s about as easy as can be…. I won’t be adding it to … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve written a lot about the work of Harvard Professor Michael Sandel. Here’s short video where he’s considering the question “Should we pay children to read?” He gets to the crux of the matter in the final couple of minutes: … Continue reading → Read More...
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Sharon Turner has just posted the 29th edition of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival! As she writes: The posts… represent future visions, perspectives and warnings of all kinds pertaining to English Language Education. Thanks, Sharon! David Deubelbeiss will Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The History Of Technology: The National Geographic Channel has begun a show on technology called The Link. Here is how Wired describes it: In our forward-thinking world, we … Continue Read More...
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Here are new additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The Colorado Wildfires: Mapping the Spread of Wildfires in Colorado is an interactive from The New York Times. Nearly 350 homes destroyed in Colorado Springs, officials say is from … Continue Read More...
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I just received my invitation to join Mural.ly, and am very impressed. I’d strongly encourage you to register for one. It lets you drag and drop images and links (and the links appear as thumbnail images on the screen);it lets … Continue reading → Read More...
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With today’s decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the health care reform law (Yay!), I thought it would be a good time to update The Best Online Resources For Learning About Health Care Reform. It has lots of useful … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’m adding this video to The Best Images Taken In Space: Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About Mount Everest: LIFE has a slideshow of Hillary’s first climb. Chilling photo shows bottleneck on Mount Everest as dozens of climbers try to reach summit on weekend when … Continue reading Read More...
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The Colorado Wildfire is an awful tragedy. Here’s a short, and beginning, list of resources on what’s going on there. I’m adding this list to A Compilation Of “The Best…” Lists About Natural Disasters: Crews go on offensive against growing … Continue Read More...
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Last week I posted Can’t Economists Stay Away From Schools? Don’t They Have Enough Other Things To Do?, a commentary on a new study on bribing students to work *** tests that was written by, among others, the economist … Continue reading → Read More...
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Teacher whose barbed blog made headlines is fired is the headline in a USA Today story today. I don’t know how justifiable the board cited “performance difficulties” really are so cannot make an informed comment on that issue, but, as … Continue reading Read More...
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Professor Yong Zhao gave a terrific keynote speech yesterday at the ISTE Conference in San Diego (I wasn’t there, but followed it through Twitter). I’ve posted about many articles by Professor Zhao, and he’s contributed to my Education Week column. … Read More...
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July 1st is Canada Day, and I’ve updated The Best Sites To Learn About Canada. Additional suggestions are welcome… Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The London 2012 Olympics: Olympics 2012: Carrying the flame is a photo gallery from The Boston Globe. Olympic Portraits, Part I: American Athletes is from The Atlantic. Olympic … Continue Read More...
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Here are a couple of interesting posts from around the web related to motivation: First, there’s Berkeley Study: For MBAs, Happiness Isn’t About the Money from TechCrunch. It’s a good study to show the next person who tells you that … Continue reading Read More...
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Google Maps has partnered with LEGO’s to let you build a virtual city using LEGO’s on a map of Australia or New Zealand. You can then share your creation with others. You have to use the Google Chrome browser. You … Continue reading → Read More...
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Thanks to Richard Byrne for finding another nice web tool, ikiMap. I’d encourage you to read his post to learn more about it — it lets you easily create maps and, what I particularly like, is you can insert images … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve previously written about The Benjamin Franklin Effect” and how I use it in the classroom (see “The Benjamin Franklin Effect” In The Classroom). The “Effect” goes: You grow to like people for whom you do nice things and hate … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve just updated The Best Online Resources For Teachers of Pre-Literate ELL’s. Additional suggestions are always welcome. Read More...
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My newest column at Education Week Teacher, First Year Highlights: Helping Our Students Become Better Readers, brings all my reading posts together in one place. Those columns include guest responses from people like Stephen Krashen, *** Allington, Donalyn Read More...
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Guest Post by John Thompson When I first followed Larry’s link to Tom Kane’s Op Ed in the Wall Street Journal (see Disappointing Op Ed On Using Tests To Evaluate Teachers By Head Of Gates’ Project), I also was disappointed. Perhaps … Continue reading Read More...
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Vocre is the latest in an increasing number of SmartPhone translating apps that can help you communicate in another language. It can come in handy if you just have to communicate something to an ELL student in their native language, … Continue reading Read More...
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I’ve written a lot in blogs, books and article about the value of using images in English language instruction (see The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons). And, just over the past couple of months, some new web tools … Continue reading → Read More...
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The Wall Street Journal today ran a for/against op ed on the question: Should Student Test Scores Be Used to Evaluate Teachers? The pro-side was written by Thomas Kane, who’s leading the massive Gates Foundation program on the subject (see … Continue Read More...
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It’s that time again in the United States. Here’s a beginning list of The Best Resources For Learning About The 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, and I’m sure I’ll be adding tons to it as the election approaches: Election 2012 comes … Continue reading Read More...
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Try out Google Docs new demo that lets you write collaboratively with your favorite dead famous writers. Then you get to save and share your creation. As Next Web explains: A “famous writer” will start typing and then it’s your … Continue reading → Read More...
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The Voyager 1 Spacecraft, launched in 1977, is nearing a departure from our solar system. I’m adding this list to A Collection Of “The Best…” Lists On Space. Here are my choices for The Best Sites For Learning About Voyager … Continue reading → Read More...
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I learned about the Miniscule video series from the great site, The Kid Should See This. Here is how they described it: A French-made collection of short stories, Minuscule is about the private lives of ants, snails, bees, caterpillars, wasps, … Continue Read More...
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Derek Sivers (who has done some good stuff — see The Best Posts, Articles & Videos About Learning From Mistakes & Failures) has a very popular TED Talk called Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy. Here’s the video of his three-minute … Continue reading Read More...
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Pictify is a new Pinterest-like site, except only for fine works of art. It seems quite easy to use. I’m adding it to The Best Ways For Students To Create Their Own Online Art Collections, and I also took the … Continue reading → Read More...
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At least, that’s my interpretation of this short video: Read More...
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Fantastic Fun Face lets you search for an image, adds lots of crazy effects to it, and then save and share it. English Language Learners could create a face and then describe it in writing and orally as a language … Continue reading → Read More...
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I just posted My Best Posts On Building Parent Engagement In Schools — 2012 (So Far) over at my other blog, Engaging Parents In School. You might want to take a look… Read More...
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Many of the lesson plans I share on this blog, and all of the ones in my book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves (and in the sequel I’m writing to it now), include having students actually read portions of the academic … Continue reading → Read More...
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A couple of weeks ago, I posted about a pretty interesting new study that — through brain scans — actually showed what the brain looked like when you are demonstrating self-control and when you are not (see This Is — … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve never used a Smartboard, though I regularly use $2 interactive whiteboards. And I have a lot of respect for Bill Ferriter’s judgment in most things (see Wasting Money on Whiteboards. . . and Why I Hate Interactive Whiteboards). Given … Continue reading Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest First, congratulations to LeBron James on his first NBA Championship. Second, thanks to LeBron for spending so much reading and making it so public. Here’s a video on why and what he’s reading, … Continue Read More...
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Here are some new additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The History Of Technology: When we dreamed of television is from The Verge. 1954-2012 (High-tech vocabulary) is an interactive from Ms. Maufroid. Read More...
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Imagine All The Water is a very accessible and interactive site sponsored by the European Commission. Here’s how The Atlantic describes it: The site Imagine All the Water would like to remind you of how much water you’re using even … Continue reading Read More...
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Wikipedia announced today a new “visual editor” that will make it much more accessible to contribute to its pages. They’re introducing it slowly, and it doesn’t appear that it will work for most entries for awhile. I think it will … Continue reading Read More...
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I just posted The Best Resources For Learning About Parent Fundraising & Equity Issues over at my other blog, Engaging Parents In School. You might also be interested in the collection of all my parent engagement-related “The Best..” lists. Read More...
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21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity is from BuzzFeed. Not only are they great photos for everyone to see, quite a few of them would be good to show to students and have them describe — both … Continue reading → Read More...
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Justin Reich just posted Don’t Use Khan Academy without Watching this First, and it’s a very important post where he shared this video two teachers (and an important commentary about it), Dave Coffey and John Golden, created: I’m adding it to The Best Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The London 2012 Olympics: The Associated Press has interactives on diving and on gymnastics. The Guardian has a zillion interactives. Interactive: London Summer Olympics venues comes from Read More...
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Visuals For Foreign Language Instruction is from the University of Pittsburgh. Here is how it describes itself: This site contains hundreds of visual aids (illustrations) that can be used to support instructional tasks such as describing objects and people Read More...
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Just what we need, another study from economists telling us how to make schools more effective (one released earlier this year concluded that “The message is to fire people sooner rather than later” ). This new study, The Behavioralist Goes … Continue Read More...
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I’ve just made some additions to The Best Sites For Learning About World Refugee Day. I haven’t gotten a chance to check all the links there to see if they’re still good, but the ones I checked were still working. Read More...
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These videos may be good for a geography lesson, and they are also just plain fun: And here’s the original from 2008: Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources On The Obama Administration’s Plan To Partially Implement The DREAM Act (both came from Andrew Sullivan’s blog): Republicans’ Bad-Faith Objections to Letting DREAMers Stay is from Mother Jones, and is Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources For Showing Students Why They Should Continue Their Academic Career: Sweden’s enormous education experiment improved longevity is from Nature. Though Tuition Is Rising, Value of Education Is Rising Too Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest The above quote came from an op-ed in today’s New York Times by two university researchers – The Beneficial Impact Of Immigrants. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Immigration … Continue Read More...
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Bill Ferriter found this video and wrote a must-read commentary about it — Learning about Grading from the Baljeatles. Let’s not turn our students into this, please. This video make a great case for why we need to help our … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve previously posted about how much I like Thinglink, a free site that lets you turn photos into interactive images (see “Thinglink” Could Be A Great Tool For ELL’s). ImageSpike is a new web tool that is supposed to do … Continue reading → Read More...
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Who knows what the Supreme Court will decide in the next week or two on health care reform but, for now, this New York Times interactive that takes you through all the different scenarios is the best thing out there … Continue reading → Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest The above is a quote from a Science Daily report on a new study — see Giving Makes Young Children Happy. Read More...
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I’m adding this video to A Collection Of “The Best…” Lists On Infographics: Thanks to Ezra Klein for the tip. Read More...
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The Civil War is quite an impressive interactive infographic on…the Civil War. It shows casualties, stories, and a whole lot more. And it’s a college student’s project. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The American Civil … Continue reading Read More...
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Thanks to reader Michelle Anthony, I’ve learned about ScootPad. It lets teachers set-up virtual classrooms to monitor student progress in grad one-to-three reading and math lessons. And it’s free. I’m adding it to The Best Sites That Students Can Use Read More...
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The American Federation of Teachers has unveiled a new site where educators can upload lessons to share (and, of course, download them, too). It’s called Share A Lesson, and you can read more about it in the New York Times … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’m adding this video to The Best Sites For Learning About Polar Bears: Read More...
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First Year Highlights: Student Motivation is the title of my newest column at Education Week Teacher. It brings together links to all my columns on….student motivation. Read More...
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From The Optimism Bias by Tali Sharot: extract in The Guardian: To induce expectations of success, she primed college students with words such as smart, intelligent and clever just before asking them to perform a test. To induce expectations of … Continue Read More...
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Check out this excerpts from today’s New York Times column, Policing by the Numbers: “…the Police Department — where I served from 1983 to 2004 — has become a top-down, micromanaged bureaucracy in which precinct commanders are pitted against one … Continue Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest This is a line from an article on a new report written by the British Medical Council. As the introduction to a fascinating Guardian interactive on the report states: increasing population fatness could Read More...
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More Than A Million Immigrant Youth Eligible For Deportation Relief is a Learning The Language post at Education Week that shares state-by-state numbers on who’s eligible for the relief promised by last week’s immigration announcement by the Obama Administration. Read More...
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Thanks to David Kapuler (I’d recommend you subscribe to his blog), I’ve learned about a new site called BeeClip.Edu. It lets you set-up a virtual classroom where students can create a “scrapbook” or other products using a very simple “drag-and-drop” … Read More...
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Middleweb is a longstanding resource newsletter/blog, begun by my friend/colleague/hero John Norton, and has recently expanded very impressively. I’ll soon be posting a interview with John where he will be offering details. And, today, John has posted Read More...
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I’ve posted previously about my concerns that that some trends toward teacher preparation have been placing too much emphasize on content knowledge over teaching skills (see How Much “Content” Knowledge Do You Really Need To Be An Effective Teacher? and Read More...
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David Deubelbeiss from EFL Classroom 2.0 has put together an extraordinary music resource — a collection of all EFL Clasroom 2.0 song + lyric sheet materials. I’m adding it to The Best Music Websites For Learning English. Read More...
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I’ve previously shared videos of Hans Rosling, data magician. He has a new TED Talk out, and it’s called Religions and Babies. I’m embedding it below, and I’m also adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Our World’s … Continue reading → Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest The above quote is from an extraordinary scene in “The Wire,” my favorite television show of all time, and I’ve embedded a video of that “must watch” scene at the end of this … Continue reading → Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest This quote comes from a New York Times article headlined A Richer Life by Seeing the Glass Half Full. In it, the author also reports on a recommendation to help develop this kind of … Continue reading → Read More...
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Learning 2 Spell is a new free site that provides a series of spelling tests that learners can take. Teachers or parents can enroll individual children and track their progress. There’s a limited amount of content on the site now, … Continue reading Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest I found that quote in a post by Shawn Callahan and subsequently learned it comes from Bruner’s book, Actual Minds, Possible Worlds. I’ve written a lot about the importance of stories … Continue reading Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest I think that there are often times where people who have no experience in a particular field can bring helpful new perspectives — and questions — to those who have been working in … Continue reading → Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest Here’s an embedded video of President Obama’s comments on his administration’s immigration policy change: And here’s a transcript of his remarks. The New York Times reported on his comments. I’m adding all Read More...
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I’ve converted my earlier post about the Obama’s administration to partially implement the DREAM Act into The Best Resources On The Obama Administration’s Plan To Partially Implement The DREAM Act. Here are some new additions, and a whole lot more … Continue Read More...
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New Tool to Provide Tech Inventory for Common Core is a new article in Ed Week announcing a…. a new tool districts can use to see how inadequate our technology is for the new next-generation of state tests. Here’s an … Continue reading → Read More...
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It doesn’t look like the European financial crisis is going to get solved anytime soon, so I thought it might be time for a related “The Best…” list. You might also be interested in: The Best Sites To Learn About … Continue reading → Read More...
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The Washington Post has just published an article headlined Administration plan could spare hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from deportation. I hope it’s true. Here’s an excerpt: The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting Read More...
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A message from the comic strip Non-Sequitur: Source: gocomics.com via Larry on Pinterest Read More...
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Never Seconds is blog written by a nine-year-old student in Scotland. She takes photos of her school lunches and evaluates them. In addition, students from other countries have begun sending her photos of their lunches, too. The BBC reports that … Continue Read More...
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Carl Wienman won the Nobel Prize for physics, and is also outspoken in his support of cooperative group learning in the college classroom. Many of those same ideas can be applied to the K-12 school, and to other subjects, too. … Continue reading → Read More...
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I know the title of this “The Best…” list is a bit strange, but I couldn’t figure out a better one. Some fascinating projects are going on to visualize how people throughout the world have interacted throughout history. Here are … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve just posted my last new Education Week Teacher “advice” column for the school year. During the summer, I’ll be posting compilations of past posts that have a common theme (classroom management, instructional strategies, etc.) and then will start Read More...
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As regular readers know, at the end of each first semester and at the end of each school year my students complete an anonymous evaluation of the class and me. I share the results with my colleagues and post them … Continue reading → Read More...
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Immigrant Children Lag Behind, Posing Risk is a Wall Street Journal article on a new report titled Children in Immigrant Families: Essential to America’s Future. The article provides a good summary, along with some useful charts. However, you can only Read More...
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Education Week reports that: Thirty years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a state may not deny access to a basic public education to any child, whether that child is present in the country legally or not. … Continue reading → Read More...
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Jonah Lehrer, author of the book “Imagine: How Creativity Works” has written a guest piece over at my Education Week Teacher column sharing his suggestions on how his research can be applied in the classroom. Thanks to Brain Pickings, I’ve … Continue Read More...
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One of the most important purposes of public education, I believe, is to prepare students to participate in democratic public life. There are many aspects of this kind of activity, including voting. It does not appear that Florida’s Governor Scott … Continue Read More...
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There have been some interesting developments in the story about The Gates Foundation and those “galvanic skin sensors” to measure student “engagement.” Here are the newest additions to The Best Posts On The Weirdest School Reform Story Of The Year … Read More...
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Who can resist a good penguin video? Here are two I’m adding to The Best Sites For Learning About Penguins: Here are some leapin’ penguins. You can read why they’re doing it here: Here’s one showing Penguin Baby First Steps: Read More...
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Check This is the latest in a long line of tools that let you create webpages quickly, without registering, and that let you also paste images into them. I’m adding it to A Few Simple Ways To Introduce Reluctant Colleagues … Continue reading → Read More...
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This really is an extraordinary video, and is tailor-made to use in an ESL class — it’s extremely engaging and has lots of different activities that students can describe and discuss. In fact, it’s engaging for anyone…. Unfortunately, it’s also … Continue Read More...
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The 7 Biggest Creativity Killers was recently published in Fast Company. I didn’t really find most of the article useful. However, the first few paragraphs were eye-opening. Here are two of them, and you can read the rest at the … Continue reading → Read More...
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It’s new to me, but since 2002 the International Labour Organization of the United Nations has recognized June 12th as The World Day Against Child Labor. Here are my choices for The Best Resources For The World Day Against Child … Continue reading → Read More...
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A few hours ago I posted Nice Infographic On “Smart Teaching.” It’s a great one, but since it was originally designed for use at a religious-oriented training, it alludes to Biblical scripture. Two readers wrote in, though, and pointed me … Continue reading Read More...
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The Boston Globe today reports on a new study which found that people were less likely to contribute a second time to nonprofit groups who give a gift (like a tote bag) to reward a first-time contribution: In a series … Continue reading → Read More...
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I found this useful infographic on ASCD’s infographics site on Pinterest (originally from Jeremy Mavis): Source: jeremymavis.com via Larry on Pinterest Read More...
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Response: Several Ways We Can Help Students Develop Their Creativity is my newest column at Education Week Teacher. It features guest responses from best-selling authors Jonah Lehrer (Imagine) and Ashley Merryman (NutureShock). Read More...
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“It Was A Musical Thing & He Was Supposed To Sing Or Dance When The Music Was Being Played” That’s a quote from a short video of “philosopher entertainer” Alan Watts. It’s called “Music And Life” and is embedded below. … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are new additions to The Best Resources For Helping Teens Learn About The Importance Of Sleep: The Brain May Disassemble Itself in Sleep is from Scientific American. A’s from Zzzz’s? The Causal Effect of School Start Time on the … Continue reading Read More...
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‘What Money Can’t Buy’ and What it Shouldn’t Buy is a terrific interview of Harvard professor Michael Sandel about his new book, “What Money Can’t Buy.” It appeared on the PBS News Hour tonight (Part Two will be online tomorrow … Continue reading → Read More...
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Though I’ve periodically posted about the “Race To The Top” competition, I haven’t compiled a “The Best…” list because it wasn’t really directly affecting us much in California. However, now that school districts can apply, it’s definitely an immediate Read More...
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Foodmood shows in graphic form what foods people are tweeting about (only in English, however). You can read more about it at Information Aesthetics. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The World’s Different Cultures. Read More...
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Extrinsic motivation has been shown to work for more mechanical tasks (not higher-ordering thinking), so this comic strip might model a successful strategy in this instance Read More...
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Here are some new additions to The Best Sites For Learning About Nutrition & Food Safety: We Are What We Eat is a pretty amazing interactive infographic on food habits in the U.S. and around the world. California teens eat … Continue reading → Read More...
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This Pickles comic strip reminds me of some school reform schemes, like merit pay. They’ve never been shown to work, and never will. But that doesn’t seem to stop the reformers from expecting to see “apples.” Source: gocomics.com via Larry … Continue Read More...
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There have been some good posts over the past few days about what is clearly — to me, at least — one of the weirdest school reform stories of the year. The Gates Foundation has granted over a million dollars … Continue reading → Read More...
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There have been quite a few new tools that are called “interactive infographics,” and I thought it would be useful to share them all in one post: Surging Seas shows the impact of rising sea levels due to climate change. … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve previously posted about how I’ve used the idea of thinking “oppositely” to help find creative solutions to problems (see Thinking “Inside Out” — How Could I Use This In A Lesson?). Shawn Callahan came up with a name for … Continue reading → Read More...
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Are these the world’s most unusual buildings? is a slideshow from The Telegraph. I’m adding it to The Best Images Of Weird, Cool & Neat-Looking Buildings (& Ways To Design Your Own). Read More...
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Here are several recent good education policy-related posts and articles: High School Reunion is by Mike Rose. What Can Voucher Fans Learn from the Space X Mission? is by Bill Ferriter. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning … Continue reading Read More...
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Professor Yong Zhao has done a fascinating analysis of the international PISA math assessments and found that: Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest I’m adding this info to The Best Sites For Getting Some Perspective On International … Continue Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sources Of Advice On Helping Students Strengthen & Develop Their Creativity: Creativity Lessons from Charles Dickens and Steve Jobs is from The Harvard Business Review. How Geniuses Think is from The Creativity Read More...
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I learned about these photos from The Smithsonian’s post, Stunning Star Trail Photographs from International Space Station: NASA astronaut Don Pettit recently uploaded a gallery of photos to the Johnson Space Center’s Flickr page. Pettit on how he captured Read More...
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Education Week has just published a “must-read” series of articles on Latinos’ School Success: A Work in Progress. Here’s how Lesli A. Maxwell at the Learning The Language blog describes it: There’s a piece that takes a close look at … Continue reading Read More...
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PBS just released this wonderful remix of Mister Rogers: Read More...
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John Thompson just published a post — The Gates Foundation’s Belated Evolution — over at This Week In Education which joins a recent Larry Cuban piece as a candidate for the best education policy commentary of the year. John shares … Continue reading Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources On “Becoming What We Read”: Why fiction is good for you is from The Boston Globe. If We Are What We Read, Who Are We, Exactly? is from The Atlantic. You … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’m adding the infographic below to The Best Resources On The “Summer Slide.” I’m using Zoom.it to make it “scrollable” because it’s so big (I got the idea from Richard Byrne), so don’t know if it will show up on … Continue reading → Read More...
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A new study has reinforced the idea that self-control is a limited resource that needs to be replenished. That’s not really big news, since so many other studies have found the same thing (see The Best Posts About Helping Students … Continue reading Read More...
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In my previous post, The Best Resources For Teaching “What If?” History Lessons, I shared my experiences in having students create “What If?” slideshows about United States History and what a positive experience it was for my IB Theory of … Continue reading Read More...
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It’s been twenty-four hours since Scott Walker beat back the recall attempt in the state where I went to high school. I’ve seen a lot written about what happened, but have been pretty surprised at how weak they’ve all been … Continue reading → Read More...
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I just learned that June 8th is World Oceans Day. You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About The World’s Oceans. Read More...
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How Can We Help Students Develop Their Creativity? is the new “question-of-the-week” at my Education Week Teacher blog. Feel free to leave responses there or here… Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources For Learning About The “Venus Transit”: In pictures: Transit of Venus is from The BBC. Venus transits across the sun is a photo gallery from The L.A. Times. Transit Of Venus … Continue reading → Read More...
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Qwiki has been on a number of my “The Best…” lists — it’s sort of a multimedia search engine that provides audio support for text, and it’s very engaging. I was “bummed-out” last month when I read in TechCrunch that … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve just posted Part Two Of Several Ways We Can Help Students Develop Good Habits over at my Education Week Teacher blog. It includes a featured response from Professor (and author) Art Markman, as well as numerous reader suggestions. Read More...
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Today, twenty years ago, the Tank Man of Tiananmen made history by his efforts to stop tanks rolling into Tiananmen Square in China to crush student protests. Here is a video of what occurred: Here are some photos: Behind the … Continue reading → Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest Thanks to an excellent post by Jennifer Brokofsky, I learned about this short video of Sir Ken Robinson. He makes an excellent point about the importance of helping students motivate themselves (and I’m Read More...
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The U.S. Department Of Education just released a report titled “Impact in Place: A Progress Report on the Department of Education’s Place-Based Strategy.” Except for an incomprehensible and fairly useless section on the use of data, it’s actually a fairly Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of Robert Krulwich from NPR. He just gave a very impressive commencement address that he reprinted at his NPR column. I sometimes wonder how many … Continue reading Read More...
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I’ve previously posted about Slide.ly, but it was then by invitation-only. Today, they opened it to the public. Here’s what I wrote about it in my first post: Slide.ly is a brand new site that is still closed to the … Continue reading → Read More...
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Several Ways We Can Help Students Develop Good Habits is my newest Education Week Teacher column. It features a guest response from Charles Duhigg, author of “The Power Of Habits” and a New York Times journalist. Read More...
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I’m a big fan of Atul Gawande’s writing, and have previously written about his work on instructional coaching. Yesterday, he gave an impressive commencement address on “Failure and Rescue” at Williams College. You can read it here (and I’d strongly … Read More...
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Google Translate is the most popular site and app in the world for translation, and I thought it would be useful — both for readers and for my Theory of Knowledge students — to bring together some resources to learn … Continue reading → Read More...
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There has been some research on the learning benefits of exposing students to nature — by either bring them to it or it to them. Here are a few resources, and I hope that readers will contribute more: Mom Was … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve written a lot about Carol Dweck’s research, especially in The Best Articles On The New Study Showing That Intelligence Is Not “Fixed” and in The Best Resources For Learning How To Best Give Feedback To Students. I’ve also created … Continue reading Read More...
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There are quite a few very good ways for ESL/EFL/ELL teachers to get online professional development. I’ve already shared some of those ways in previous “The Best…” lists, including: The Best Ways ESL/EFL/ELL Teachers Can Develop Personal Learning Networks Read More...
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I, and a whole lot of other people, have researched and written about the importance of helping students connect new knowledge with their prior knowledge. The Scientific American just reported on more research reinforcing that importance. The studies Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest This is a quote from a very interesting interview at the BBC with Dr. Walter Mischel, the person who first devised the famous Marshmallow Experiment to measure self-control.It’s only thirty minutes, and Read More...
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Edublogs has just released an app for blogging on on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod. The same day, The New York Times published an article headlined “Three Varied Tools for Blogging With a Hand-Held.” I’m adding this info to The … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here’s something you don’t see everyday — a bicycle riding robot. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn About Robots. Read More...
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Croak.it lets you easily record a thirty second message with a computer microphone. You then get a unique url address that you can share. No registration is necessary. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Practice Speaking English. Thanks … Continue reading Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest Thanks to a post at The Engineer’s Pulse, I learned about Harvard Professor Eric Mazur. He’s done a lot of work — perhaps it could be called teacher action research — on the … Continue reading → Read More...
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For the past ten years The New York Times Magazine has published an “Annual Year In Ideas” issue at the beginning of June. Today, though, they changed the name to “The Innovation Issue” and have a cool interactive called 32 … Continue reading → Read More...
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Thanks to the Latino Ed Beat, I learned that today: For the first time, the College Board has released a resource guide intended to help undocumented immigrant students seeking to pursue a college education. You can find the guide at … Continue reading Read More...
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Yesterday’s Dilbert comic strip gives a good example of how it seems some “school reformers” view the idea of “teacher leadership.” Here are some examples of what I believe teacher leadership is: TEDxNYED – April 28, 2012 – Jose Vilson … Continue reading Read More...
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I’ve previously posted about Carla Federman and the great “What If?” projects her students create (see The Best Resources For Teaching “What If?” History Lessons). She’s just posted the latest “crop” of presentations, and they look quite impressive. My Read More...
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I’ve previously posted about a very useful study done on metacognition by Dr. Steve Fleming (see Does Getting Better At Metacognition Physically Alter The Brain?) and his follow-up comments (Update On Metacognition Study). Today, BrainFacts.org published Read More...
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Usually, I just post one of these “round-ups” each week, but I’ve got a bunch, so here’s a special edition: A Test Worth Teaching To is from The Washington Monthly. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here’s an amazing new video from NASA of “airglow” and auroras. Here’s how Wired describes it: The night can never be completely dark. Take away city lights, the moon, and the stars, and the sky itself will still produce a … Continue reading → Read More...
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