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July 2012 - Posts
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Slapstick film often has engaging scenes to show to English Language Learners and for them to write and talk about what they saw. In fact, as I’ve previously written, I remember being shocked when I first showed some old silent … Continue reading → Read More...
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10 talks from inspiring teachers is a post from TED Talks that lists and links to….10 TED Talks by teachers. I’m adding it to The Best Teacher Resources For “TED Talks” (& Similar Presentations). Read More...
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TIME has just published an accessible feature called The 20 Most Influential Americans of All Time. The Discovery Channel published a similar project a few years back. Here’s the simple assignment I gave my students using it (and, the next … Continue Read More...
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Feedbltiz is generally pretty reliable for sending out all my posts in a daily summary to email subscribers. However, yesterday they just didn’t include all the posts that were published. So, if you’re an email subscriber, you might want to … Continue Read More...
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Malcolm Gladwell has written a profile of the famous distance runner Alberto Salazar in this week’s New Yorker magazine (unfortunately, most of it is behind a paywall). Here’s a passage that struck me: Though I suppose one can connect this … Continue Read More...
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This Day In Tech is a regular Wired feature highlighting important moments in the history of technology. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The History Of Technology. Read More...
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The Against Violent Extremism (AVE) Network is an organization with an engaging website. Here is how it describes itself: The Against Violent Extremism (AVE) Network is a unique and powerful new global force in the ongoing struggle to tackle violent … Read More...
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David Deubelbeiss has just posted the 30th Edition of The ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival. Here’s how he described it in his invitation for submissions: The theme for this blog carnival is The Best Posts For Helping New Teachers. September is a … Continue reading Read More...
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A new school year will be beginning for most of us sometime over the next five weeks, and I’ve just made some new additions to The Best Resources For Planning The First Day Of School. I’ll also be making it … Continue reading → Read More...
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Edublogs, the platform hosting this blog and two million others, is celebrating its seventh birthday today! It’s been hosting this blog since I began writing it five-and-a-half years ago. I think it’s the best place for any teacher or student … Continue Read More...
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#ELLCHAT takes place every Monday evening. This chat was about making vocabulary instruction meaningful, and I’ve made a quick “Storify” of the information and resources shared. I’m also adding this to The Best Sites Where ELL’s Can Learn Vocabulary. Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest Gaby Pacheco, a leader of the campaign to get the DREAM act, spoke at the American Federation of Teachers Convention. Here organization’s website, United We Dream, is clearly the best place to get … Continue Read More...
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The 200th anniversary of the start of The War Of 1812 was last month, but I figured a “The Best…” list would still be useful. I’m going to list some resources here, but the bulk of the best sites can … Continue reading → Read More...
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My wife bought me an iPad a couple of weeks ago and, slowly but surely, I’ve been testing it out. Here are three apps I’m downloading today that I thought readers might be interested in (and I’ll add them to … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here’s my monthly round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 936 of them categorized here): The Best Resources On Using Improvisation In The ESL/EFL/ELL Classroom The Best Ideas To Help Students Become Better Listeners … Continue Read More...
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I’ve just posted a compilation of my Education Week Teacher columns on assessment in schools. You might find it useful…. Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest Interesting…. Read the entire article at The New York Times. Read More...
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Much of the United States, and other parts of the world, is suffering from drought this year, and there’s a danger of it continuing. You might also be interested in: The Best Web Resources About Somalia’s Drought & Famine The … Continue reading → Read More...
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Jon Stewart did a very good interview with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz about wealth inequality in the United States. I’m adding it to The Best Resources About Wealth & Income Inequality: The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Read More...
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Here’s a video of Diane Ravitch’s speech this weekend to the American Federation Of Teachers Convention in Detroit: Thanks to Big Education Ape for the tip. Read More...
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We’re not required to prepare formal lessons though, obviously, skilled teachers do tons of planning. About the only time I write up formal lessons is when I have to communicate what I do in the classroom for one of my … Continue reading → Read More...
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Joe Nocera has a column today in The New York Times titled Addressing Poverty in Schools. In it, he speaks highly of the work by Turnaround For Children, an organization that places a team of four staff in some New … Continue reading → Read More...
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Wallwisher, the pioneering “corkboard” Web 2.0 tool that lets you create virtual bulletin boards, has recently updated its site and it seems to work very well (thanks to Angela Cunningham for the tip). As many of us had noticed, it … Continue reading Read More...
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Edutopia has published a great round-up of teacher movie portrayals: Five-Minute Film Festival: Hollywood Teachers. I’m adding it to The Best Places To Learn About (And View Video Clips Of) Teachers In The Movies. Read More...
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I’ve generally been doing on post a day adding resources to the huge The Best Sites For Learning About The London 2012 Olympics. But, today, I’m doing two: All the Fastest Men is a cool slideshow from The New York … Continue reading → Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com How to Write is a very engaging New York Times piece by author Colson Whitehead that’s funny and informative. I’m adding it to The Best Writing Advice From Famous Authors. Read More...
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I’ve just begun writing a monthly column for The New York Times and their Learning Network: “Ideas For English Language Learners.” Check out the first one — focusing on the Olympics. Read More...
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ProLiteracy has quite a few very accessible interactives designed to help people prepare for the U.S. Citizenship test, and also has a lot of info for citizenship teachers. I’m adding it to The Best Websites For Learning About Civic Participation … Continue Read More...
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“What Eating At The Poverty Line Is Like Around The World” is a very interesting slideshow and project. The photos portray the food that a person in different countries can afford to purchase if they live in poverty. I’m adding … Continue reading → Read More...
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Pinterest just announced a major expansion of their Categories Menu. I guess I was clueless, because I never realized they even had one. You just click on “categories” at the top of the page (you don’t even have to be … Continue reading → Read More...
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Sue Waters, the idol of and guru for edubloggers everywhere, has just posted “The State of Educational Blogging in 2012″ over at the Edublogger. It was a huge task to collect and analyze several hundred surveys, and Sue has done … Continue reading → Read More...
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StudyBlue lets you create flashcard easily, and one of its main selling points — at least in my mind — is that it allows you grab images off the Web to add to them. I’m adding it to The Best … Continue reading → Read More...
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If you enjoyed the wonderful PBS remix of Mister Rogers last month, you’ll love their new remix of Bob Ross from the legendary “Joy Of Painting” show: Read More...
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Game-O-Matic is just about the strangest site I’ve seen for creating online games. On one level, it’s as easy as pie to use, but on another level — and that’s the level I’m on — it’s incomprehensible. It’s particularly intriguing … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources For Learning About The “Next Generation” Of State Testing: Standardized Tests Of Tomorrow Behind Schedule, According To Insider Survey is from The Huffington Post. Common Assessments: More Than Two Games Read More...
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The Annie Casey Foundation has released their annual “Kids Count” report, and this year they’ve also produced a pretty nifty “Data Wheel” that provides a state-by-state summary. The supporting resources they offer are a bit overwhelming. You have to dig Read More...
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The earth’s non-renewable resources are not going to last forever (hence, the reason for calling them “non-renewable”). Here are some interactives that show long each one has left: Global resources stock check is from The BBC. What Lies Beneath is … Continue Read More...
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I’ve written a lot over the past week about the now infamous studies on loss aversion in schools. I did, though, want to highlight a lively discussion in the comments section of one of my posts on the topic. If … Continue reading → Read More...
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Cool: Google Glasses-Inspired Eyewear Translates Foreign Language Into Real-Life Subtitles is the title of a TechCrunch post that describes this adaptation of “Google Glasses”: Read More...
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Today, Nike released this great ad connected to the London Olympics. Happily, the “ad” part of it is very minor. I’m adding it to The Best Videos Illustrating Qualities Of A Successful Language Learner: Thanks to Adverblog for the tip. Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories: Forensic Firsts from the Smithsonian Channel has a game where you need to stop a serial killer. It’s engaging, but probably not … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources For Learning About Teens & Stress: Helping Teenagers With Stress is a nice hand-out from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Teens and Stress is the same video I’ve … Continue reading Read More...
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Here are some recent good posts on educational policy: Common Sense Vs. Common Core: How to Minimize the Damages of the Common Core is by Yong Zhao. I’m adding it to The Best Articles Sharing Concerns About Common Core Standards. … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are today’s additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The London 2012 Olympics: Fists of Freedom: An Olympic Story Not Taught in Schools is from GOOD. The Art of Gymnastics is an interactive from The Associated Press. The … Continue reading Read More...
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Under Ten Minutes showcases short videos showing teachers how to use new tech tools. I’m adding it to The Best Places To Learn Web 2.0 Basics. Read More...
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Voices Of Youth is a site set-up by UNICEF where young people from around the world can write and interact about issues like “Environment, Education, Human Rights, etc.” Here’s an excerpt from the sites “FAQ’s”: Educators can work with their … Continue Read More...
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NASA took data from the sun and turned it into these Van Gogh-like images: Thanks to Open Culture for the tip. Read More...
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I noticed that the Twitter #ELLCHAT this evening was on using drama in the classroom, and it reminded me that I’ve been planning on writing a post on improvisation ideas — one of my favorite instructional strategies. Here are a … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The London 2012 Olympics: Playing London’s Games is a Wall Street Journal interactive. London 2012: Inside track on Olympic running surface is from The BBC. A Sprint and … Continue reading Read More...
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I’ve brought together all my Education Week Teacher columns on education policy issues in my newest post there. Check out First Year Highlights: Education Policy Issues. There are some pretty good ones…. Read More...
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Meograph lets you tell a story with text, photos, videos, and audio narration. Richard Byrne has written about it a couple of times, so I’d suggest you read how he describes it. In many ways, it seems similar to Tripline, … Continue reading → Read More...
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This is a very short “The Best…” list. It’s different from The Best Listening Sites For English Language Learners, and is focused on ideas we can use to help all our students develop better listening skills. I shared my best … Continue reading → Read More...
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve written several posts about recent studies experimenting with “loss aversion” in schools — giving students and teachers cash or prizes prior to a test and then taking them away if student test scores do … Continue reading Read More...
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Vidquik is a new tool that lets you easily make a video call to someone. It’s free and, after registering, all you have to do is type in the email of the person you want to call. They click on … Continue reading → Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via How Much and What Kind of Teacher Education Do Novices Need? is a thoughtful post by Larry Cuban questioning the effectiveness of teacher training programs like Teach For America’s five week strategy. I’m adding it to The Read More...
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My posts on recent studies using “loss aversion” (giving students and teachers cash or prizes and then taking them away if they don’t meet testing goals) as a way to “motivate” teachers and students have been receiving a fair amount … Continue reading Read More...
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Coincidentally, the same day I criticized economists for looking at everything, including schools, through the lens of financial incentives (see “If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail” — Economists Go After Schools … Continue Read More...
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Living Junction lets you fairly easily create simple online books/magazines. You can search, drag and drop images onto pages, and add textboxes, too. I’m adding it to The Best Places Where Students Can Write Online. Read More...
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Last month, I wrote about a questionable study that touted the idea of “loss aversion” as a successful strategy to get students to do better at tests. In other words, they gave students a trophy or some cash before they … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here’s an impressive video composed of photos from The International Space Station. I’m adding it to The Best Images Taken In Space: Read More...
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Rewindy is a new and easy tool to make slideshows. It really doesn’t require much explanation — you click on “create new story,” upload photos or paste the url addresses of ones you want to use off the Web, add … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The London 2012 Olympics: America’s adopted athletes is a really nice interactive from the BBC profiling immigrants who are competing for the United States. London 2012 Olympics Infographic Read More...
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Jonah Lehrer provides a good description of the “10,000 hour rule”: The 10,000 hour rule has become a cliche. This is the idea, first espoused by K. Anders Ericsson, a pyschologist at Florida State University, that it takes about 10,000 … Continue reading Read More...
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Teachers can show this video to English Language Learners and have them write what happened chronologically. In addition, students could be asked why the driver stopped and helped, and share times they have (and, perhaps, have not) been kind and … Continue Read More...
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Shelly Terrell has created an excellent slideshow called “Working With Images” that shares a number of ideas on how to use images with English Language Learners. I’ve embedded below, but am not sure it will show up in an RSS … Continue reading → Read More...
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The United States Department of Education today launched a new website designed to help students plan for their continuing education — StudentAid.Gov. To tell you the truth, the site looks okay, but I’m not convinced it’s that much more helpful … Continue Read More...
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Here are the latest additions to The Best Sites For International Day Of The World’s Indigenous People (which is August 9th): Indigenous Tribe Rises up in Colombia is a TIME slideshow. Pine Ridge Community Storytelling Project is an interactive from … Read More...
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I Side With is a new cool interactive for learning about the Presidential campaign. Here’s how NPR describes it: The site’s purpose is to show you which presidential candidate’s views most align with yours by running you through a short … Continue reading Read More...
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Neil Armstrong walked on the moon for the first time on July 20th of 1969. You might find The Best Sites To Learn About The Apollo 11 Moon Landing useful. Feel free to make suggestions for additions to the list…. Read More...
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Last month I posted a critique of the popular TED Talk on The Dancing Guy, which is often used to teach leadership lessons. Today, I “double-down” and expand that criticism in a guest post at SmartBrief On Education. Check out … Continue reading → Read More...
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My collection of resources for IB Theory of Knowledge classes has grown to 1200 categorized links. TOK teachers and students might also find our class blog useful. Read More...
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This would be a fun and engaging video to show to English Language Learner students and then write a chronological sequence about what happened… Read More...
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FlockDraw, with no registration required, lets you create a virtual room where up to ten people can draw in addition to being able to “chat.” You can save your drawing on the Web. It can’t get much easier than what … Continue reading → Read More...
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Ptch is a new iPhone app that lets you easily mix your photos and videos into a neat slideshow with music. It seems to me like Animoto with a more attractive interface, more options and better music. You can read … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here’s a “movie” showing the loss of Native American land over the past 250 years. You can read more about it at The Atlantic: I’m adding it to The Best Sites For International Day Of The World’s Indigenous People, which … Continue reading → Read More...
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This twelve minute video of Anthony Bryk from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is one of the best things I’ve seen about teacher evaluation. Among other points, he compares summative teacher evaluation with teacher improvement. Read More...
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Boy oh boy, great Olympic resources are coming online every day, so I guess I’ll just have a daily update to The Best Sites For Learning About The London 2012 Olympics: Olympics 2012: Athletes in training is a photo gallery from … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve just made a number of new additions to The Best Resources For Learning About What’s Happening In Syria. Additional suggestions are welcome… Read More...
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Foboko is a new site where you can easily write and publish books online. It similar in most ways to a number of other sites that are on The Best Places Where Students Can Write Online list. The big place … Continue reading → Read More...
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Even though my next book will be coming out next month (The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide, co-authored with Katie Hull Sypnieski), I’m not letting any “grass grow under my feet” . I just sent my publisher 45% of a sequel … Continue reading → Read More...
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This short video shows how Nelson Mandela might have written about his life if social media had been around. A video like this could be a great model for students to see before they would do a similar project on … Continue reading → Read More...
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Immediately following each Olympics (and they use the same facilities) comes the Paralympic Games. Check out this video about them: Read More...
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Here are new additions to The Most Useful Resources For Implementing Common Core: ASCD has a free newsletter called The Core Connection. Project-Based Learning and Common Core Standards is also from ASCD. And here are new additions to The Best … Continue Read More...
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The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Read More...
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Nelson Mandela is 94 today and, as The Telegraph explains: July 18 is marked as International Nelson Mandela Day, a UN-backed event, when people around the world but particularly in South Africa are asked to spend 67 minutes of their time on … Continue Read More...
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“Science Of The Summer Olympics” is a series of videos NBC has produced with the National Science Foundation. You can also read more about it here. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The London 2012 Olympics. Read More...
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I’ve just updated The Best Online Carbon Calculators. Additional suggestions are welcome… Read More...
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Planwise is a new free tool that seems to me just about the most ambitious web tool out there for budgeting. It may be a little too complicated for English Language Learners, but it’s worth a look. I’m adding it … Continue reading → Read More...
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A couple of weeks ago I posted the lyrics and the audio to a song written by educator Barry Lane (author of numerous books about teaching writing) with Lyrics by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater. They recently released this music video (thanks … Continue reading Read More...
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The Tennessean reports today: Tennessee’s new way of evaluating classrooms “systematically failed” to identify bad teachers and provide them more training, according to a state report published Monday. The Tennessee Department of Education found that Read More...
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The Onion has just published a pretty funny “Point/Counterpoint” satire on Teach For America which is very funny, though (as most satire is) not as fair to TFA as it probably could be. The point is written by a “volunteer … Continue reading → Read More...
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Mobento is a new site that lets you search for words spoken in videos. For now, they have indexed ones from Khan, TED and Stanford, and plan a lot more. It’s pretty straightforward — you type a word into the … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here’s a video about the day the computer mouse was introduced to the world. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The History Of Technology. Read More...
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This is the ten thousandth post I’ve published on this blog since I started writing it five-and-a-half years ago. That’s a lot of posts! After this year’s crop of “best-of-the-year” lists, I plan on writing some “best-of-the-past-five-year” ones, so that Read More...
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I’ve often used the Smithsonian site on Buffalo Paintings as part of a lesson with my students. The Buffalo Hide Paintings it describes are very similar to Hmong story cloths. They’ve now completely revamped their site, and it looks very … Continue reading Read More...
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When I was a teenager, I met a man who had worked with Gandhi in India. He told me that the key to Gandhi’s success was that “he looked at every problem as an opportunity, not as a pain in … Continue reading → Read More...
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The Daily Show has created a short collection of clips they’ve shown on education: The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook If you’re looking for a few more laughs, you might … Continue Read More...
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First Year Highlights: Parent Engagement In Schools is my new Education Week Teacher post. It brings together all my previous columns on parent engagement. Read More...
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Here are two videos I’m adding to The Best Websites For Learning About Bob Marley. The first is a trailer for documentary that looks good (thanks to Michelle Henry for the tip). The second is from The Biography Channel. That … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The London 2012 Olympics: The evolving Olympic athlete is a neat interactive from CNN. The Telegraph has a constantly updated page on the Olympics. The New York Times … Continue reading Read More...
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The Los Angeles Times, the paper guilty of pioneering extraordinary moral lapse of publishing teacher’s value-added ranking (see The Best Posts About The LA Times Article On “Value-Added” Teacher Ratings) just published a shockingly good editorial titled Read More...
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There’s more and more discussion on the web about the role of “curators” (which is sort of what I do with my “The Best…” lists). In fact, awhile I ago I posted The Best Posts & Articles About Curation. Now, … Continue reading → Read More...
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The United Nations has declared August 9th to be The International Day Of The World’s Indigenous People. You might be interested in The Best Sites For International Day Of The World’s Indigenous People. Read More...
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I’m obviously not a real big fan of Common Core standards, and am a bit skeptical about its practical impact on what happens in the classroom. Nevertheless, they’re here, and I thought it would be useful to readers and to … Continue reading → Read More...
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Speek lets you very simply organize conference calls. The number is unlimited, but they say the quality begins to deteriorate after ten people. It’s free. You quickly register and then you’re given a url address for your call. You email … Continue reading Read More...
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I’ve written a lot about the dangers of using rewards with students and the dangers of using merit pay with teachers. And I’ve written about economists and schools — Part Two Of “Can’t Economists Stay Away From Schools?” — My … Continue reading → Read More...
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When you watch a game on TV, someone else — the producers and commentators — do the work for you. They tell you what to pay attention to and what not to pay attention to. They digest the reality on … Continue reading → Read More...
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The History 2.0 Classroom has a great video tutorial on making “Choose Your Own Adventure” videos and then has another post with student examples. I’m adding them to The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories. Read More...
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Where are you on the global fat scale? is the name of an interactive just posted by the BBC. I sort of wish they could have come up with a different name, but it provides some fascinating, if depressing, information. … Continue reading → Read More...
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I post a lot about infographics — see A Collection Of “The Best…” Lists On Infographics. Through Silvia Tolisano, I recently learned about a very creative idea of using concrete objects to make infographics. You can find out more about … Continue reading Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The London 2012 Olympics: Securing the London Olympics is a Wall Street Journal slideshow. Are you over the hill for Olympic sports? is a neat interactive from The … Continue reading Read More...
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Here are two neat and new additions to The Best Resources For Learning About Higgs Boson, The “God Particle”: Here’s What the Higgs Boson Sounds Like is from The Atlantic. Interactive Panorama: Step Inside the Large Hadron Collider is from … Continue Read More...
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Education Week Teacher has just published a report titled Next Up in Teacher Evaluations: Student Surveys (Learning First also has a good post on the same topic). It discusses the growing interest in using student survey results as a part … Continue reading Read More...
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The Dreamers’ dreams: young immigrants tell their stories is a great interactive about the impact of President Obama’s recent change on his immigrant policy. Ironically, it’s from The Guardian, a UK newspaper. Here’s how they describe it: Thanks to President Read More...
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Regular readers know that I often use Storify to collect useful links or describe certain events, primarily through curating tweets. You can see all my “Storifies” here. Storify is a great tool, but it its length can sometimes been annoying … Continue Read More...
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Sony and Nielson have just announced the results of a survey of U.S. viewers to determine the most memorable TV moments from the past fifty years. Here’s how The Telegraph described their process: The survey, by Sony Electronics and the … Continue reading Read More...
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My upcoming book (co-authored by my extraordinary colleague, Katie Hull Sypnieski), The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels, will be published by Jossey-Bass Read More...
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Guest Post by Alice Mercer, my very talented Sacramento colleague. Cool Tool sessions abound at a conference like ISTE. I even attended one. These can be great for finding a new online tool for using with EL students, but as … Continue reading → Read More...
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40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken is a pretty interesting collection from BuzzFeed. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To See “Photos That Changed The World.” Read More...
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Three pieces of important information related to the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival: * As regular readers know, Sharon Turner posted the 29th edition of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival on July 1st. It’s theme is to represent future visions, perspectives and Read More...
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As I’ve written in The Best Posts About Attrition Rates At So-Called “Miracle” Schools: Periodically, President Obama, Secretary of Education Duncan, or various newspapers will highlight so-called “miracle” schools (often charters) that have made quick Read More...
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“The missing link is dialogue. Dialogue. We are so much about statistics and data. We need to know things about people.: Abdul Kassim Abdul Kassim is a community organizer and educator in Africa. The above quote is from another “try-out” … Continue reading Read More...
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The National Research Council of the National Academies of Science have just published a report titled Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century. Here’s a short summary from ASCD SmartBrief: A 21st-century Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest That quote is a famous one from the last commencement speech giving by Horace Mann, the father of free, universal public education in the United States. You can read more of what he said … Continue reading Read More...
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The music video, An Abridged History of Western Music in 16 Genres, lets you hear Louie Armstrong’s famous “It’s A Wonderful World” song, a favorite of ESL teachers and students, in a way you’ve never heard it before. Below that … Continue reading → Read More...
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I just received my invitation to try-out Powtoon, a new site (still requires you to request an invite) that lets you create very dynamic-looking presentations. In just a few minutes of playing around with it, it seems to me that … Continue reading → Read More...
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“We live in a country where those who know the most about education have the least say and those who know the least have the most say. What qualifies you to make policy is that you once went to school, … Continue reading → Read More...
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I usually just do a year-end list on Web 2.0 Applications For Education and many other topics, but it gets a little crazy having to review all of my zillion posts at once. So, to make it easier for me … Continue reading → Read More...
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It’s not like the world needs another web tool that lets you create video playlists, but a new one has just come online called Veedlist. It joins a big list of similar sites at The Best Ways To Create Online … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here’s a video from NASA they call Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The Mars Rover Curiosity: Read More...
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I periodically post “most popular” lists of websites (and books) that I think educators might find useful. Of course, there are a number of ways to gauge “popularity.” I just view these lists as opportunities to check-out some new sites, … Continue reading Read More...
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Judie Haynes coordinates #ELLCHAT on Twitter every Monday evening. Tonight’s topic was “Free Web Resources For ELLs” and I thought readers might find it useful to see what people shared. I’ve collected many of the tweets into a “Storify” below: … Continue Read More...
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Here are two new additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The London 2012 Olympics: USA Today has a special site with just about everything you want to know about the London Olympics and just about any Olympic Games … Continue reading → Read More...
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Today’s the first anniversary of the independence of South Sudan, a rough year, indeed. South Sudan since independence: timeline of the Guardian’s coverage – interactive reviews this past year, and I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About … Read More...
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Last month, I asked for suggestions from readers about good resources for Interactive Whiteboards. The response was so positive that I’ve now converted that post into The Best Sites For Smartboard Resources (& For Other IWB’s). Feel free to continue … Read More...
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Over at Education Week Teacher, I just posted First Year Highlights: Instructional Strategies, a compilation of all my columns on…instructional strategies. It’s a pretty good list, if I say so myself Read More...
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Duck’s Alphabet is a phonics site that’s part of WorldWorld on PBS. It’s designed for very young learners, but would also be appropriate for English Language Learners. It’s key feature is that when users sign-up, they list their parents email … Continue Read More...
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James Heckman is an American economist and Nobel laureate best know for his research about and advocacy for investment in supporting early childhood interventions (thanks to Alexander Russo for the tip about his website). I was surprised, though, to learn Read More...
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I’ve just updated The Best Tools For Cutting-Out & Saving Portions Of Online Videos (Or Annotating Them). Additional suggestions are welcome, especially if you know of a tool that will work with Vimeo videos. . Read More...
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The Common Core standards don’t include ones specifically for English Language Learners, though they will obviously have some impact on them (see The Best Resources For Learning About Common Core Standards & English Language Learners). The State of California Read More...
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I’m adding this video to The Best Sites To Learn About The Internet. It was created by the World Science Festival: Read More...
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Here are several recent good posts and articles on education policy issues: American Students Are Not Failing is a post by Diane Ravitch that talks about the video I’ve embedded below. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Getting … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are two infographics I’m adding to The Best Sites For Learning About Nutrition & Food Safety: Brought to you by Teach.com and MAT@USC. Source: californiawatch.org via Larry on Pinterest Read More...
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10 Tools, Apps, Interactives And Other Projects Around 2012 U.S. Elections is a post at 10,000 Words, and it really is quite an impressive collection. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About The 2012 U.S. Presidential Election. Read More...
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I’m adding this video to The Best Sites To Learn About Pandas: Read More...
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My United States History class blog is freely available, and pretty much contains my entire U.S. History curriculum. I only ask that if you download any of the original materials that you add me as the source. Read More...
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A filmmaker took a video of himself twenty years ago and turned it into a conversation with his present self. It’s a must-watch video and, I wonder, maybe an interesting idea for a lesson. How would it go if students … Continue reading → Read More...
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Minilogs is a new web tool that lets you group multiple url addresses into one short one. There are actually quite a few others that do the same thing (and you can find them at The Best Ways To Shorten … Continue reading → Read More...
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As regular readers know, I’m a big fan on online Choose Your Own Adventure stories — both having students read and create them (see The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories). And, even though I … Continue reading → Read More...
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‘Blade runner’ Pistorius handed dream double Olympic ticket is a CNN article and video on double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius qualifying for the Olympic Games. I’ve embedded the video below, but you might have to click through to view it … Continue Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest I’ve written a lot about the research of Professor Carol Dweck, and an interview with her has just been published where she discusses several books that have had an impact on her. It’s … Continue reading Read More...
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The Mars Rover Curiosity is scheduled to land on Mars on August 5, 2012. I posted The Best Sites For Learning About The Mars Rover Curiosity when it launched last year, and will continue to update it. Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest The above quote is from a speech President Obama gave at a July 4th Naturalization Ceremony. You can read the speech transcript here and I’ve embedded the video below. You can also read about … Continue Read More...
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This should be my last Higgs Boson-related post of the day — A Roundup of Higgs Boson Jokes on Twitter from Boing Boing. Some I don’t understand, some are lame, several are hilarious. I’m adding it to The Best Resources … Continue reading → Read More...
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In The Best Sites For Beginning iPhone Users Like Me, I’ve described some nice apps that let you add an audio recording to your photos and then share them. enpixa is a new one that’s very similar to the others. … Continue reading → Read More...
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From The BBC: Former science minister, William Waldegrave, offered a prize in 1993 for the best lay explanation of the Higgs Boson. Professor David Miller, of UCL, won the prize with the following analogy…. Check out their interactive demonstrating it. Read More...
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Well, it looks like they found it. Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources For Learning About Higgs Boson, The “God Particle”: A New Particle Could Be Physics’ Holy Grail is from The New York Times. Newly Discovered … Continue reading → Read More...
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The first part of this post is my usual introduction to this series. If you’re familiar with it already, just skip down to the listing of new sites… Here’s the latest installment in my series on The Best Ways To … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here’s a short video demonstrating Bloom’s Taxonomy through scenes from the movie, “Finding Nemo.” It only has still scenes for each level with a description, but it would be easy enough to show the scenes from a DVD or via … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Websites For Learning About The Fourth Of July: Rethinking The Fourth Of July is from the Zinn Education Project. You might also be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About Flag … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The London 2012 Olympics: Here’s a BBC trailer for the Olympics: How much were the original Olympics like the modern Games? is from The BBC. Michelle Henry has … Continue reading → Read More...
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Some good classroom management advice from the Baby Blues comic strip (see “Be Niiiiiicccccceeeee” for an example). Read More...
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An eager anticipated announcement on Higgs Boson, the “God Particle” is expected tommorow. In anticipation, The Guardian has published this unusual,and accessible, explanation of it. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Higgs Boson, Read More...
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Here’s an informative July 4th infographic. I’m adding it to The Best Websites For Learning About The Fourth Of July: Source: visual.ly via Larry on Pinterest Read More...
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I have quite a few sites on my The Best Sites That Students Can Use Independently And Let Teachers Check On Progress list. I’m adding two “sister sites” to it — Qwizzy’s World (for K-7) and Cram Stoppers (for 8-12). … Continue reading → Read More...
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Thanks to Lisa Johnson (I’ve learned about other resources from her, too), who has also collected a number of other excellent Bloom’s resources on her blog, I learned about Bloom’s Taxonomy (Revised) According to Homer Simpson. I’ve embedded the video Read More...
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“Can Character Be Taught” was a session at the Aspen Ideas Institute yesterday, and they just posted the video. It’ an hour-long, and panelists include author Paul Tough, whose book is being published this summer and two others (from what … Continue reading Read More...
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I’ve posted a compilation of all my Education Week columns related to classroom management at First Year Highlights: Classroom Management Advice. You might find it useful…. Read More...
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Thanks to reader Terri Reh, I’ve learned about The TEDx Classroom Project. It’s an extremely impressive effort that includes students’ analysis of various TED Talks, along with students using the TED model to create their own presentations. I’m adding Read More...
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Here are two new additions to The Best Resources For Learning About “Flow”: Make Standards Engaging is from ASCD Educational Leadership. Who Enters Flow? is from Psychology Today. Read More...
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Guest Post by John Thompson Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest Erica Green of the Baltimore Sun reports in “City School Evaluations Show Problems in Instruction” that Baltimore’s holistic reviews of instructional effectiveness found that Read More...
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David Deubelbeiss is hosting the next ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival — the 30th edition — on August 1st! Here’s how he’s describing it: The theme for this blog carnival is The Best Posts For Helping New Teachers. September is a start … Continue reading → Read More...
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The TOK Oral Presentation is a key part of all Theory Of Knowledge classes, and Jeff Taylor, who I assume is a TOK teacher, has created an amazingly helpful Prezi slideshow on TOK Presentation Tips. I’ve embedded it over at … Continue reading → Read More...
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How Google is teaching computers to see is an article from Gigaom about Google’s effort to get computers to “see”: Google is attempting to teach computers to recognize human faces without telling the computing algorithms which faces are human. It’s … 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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