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Banned Books Week Is Oct. 4th – 10th – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
Banned Books Week is coming up. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Banned Books Week.
     Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week
Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You can also see all my “Best” lists on instructional strategies here. Here are this week’s picks: 10 Fresh Think-Pair-Share Variations to Energize Your Classroom is from TechNotes. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Cooperative Learning Ideas. Make Thinking Visible: Your New Favorite Learning Toolkit is from Dustin Rimmey. I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT PROJECT ZERO’S THINKING ROUTINES. An Unconventional Seating Plan Designed to Benefit Focus and Learning appeared in Edutopia. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Classroom Seating Strategies.  I’m adding this post to Best Posts On Metacognition:
 Sentences Of The Week geralt / Pixabay
I thought readers might, or might not, find this new regular post useful. Each week, I highlight several sentences, with links to their sources, that I find interesting/concerning/useful. And they may, or may not, be directly connected to education. I may also include my own comments or related links. This regular post will join my other regular ones on teaching ELLs, education policy, Artificial Intelligence, infographics, and Pinterest highlights, not to mention sharing of my regular Education Week posts. Here are this week’s sentences: “It is perfectly honest to say, ‘I chose a private school because I want the best for my kid, but it is also true that private schools are bad for society and do more to reproduce inequality than to remedy it. The great challenge of teaching is not to transmit information—machines do that cheaply now—but to engineer those moments of genuine understanding reliably enough that students come to crave them. “I was so unsettled that I called almost everyone I knew with ties to A.I. for a sanity check,” he writes. “Unfortunately, almost no one was reassuring.” AI doesn’t have to hate us to kill us. When humans build a skyscraper, we don’t hate the ants—but the excavator still destroys the anthill. About 73 percent of U.S. teachers strongly or somewhat support setting a maximum amount of time that students can spend on school-issued devices during the school day… The country is almost certainly dirtier, poorer, less prosperous, and in some ways less safe than in 2024. But that’s not because of Democrats or immigrants. It’s because of the people currently running the place. They’re really hoping you’ll blame someone else. The targeted tools, such as Khan Academy’s Khanmigo and Quill, a writing app, produced the most consistent and strongest learning experiences, they found. I’ve been a longtime fan of Quill! When it comes to the education of Black children in this country, there is nearly always going to be a struggle. It’s just a matter of which one. Universities love to trumpet teaching, but do little to fund, support, or *incentivize* that work. We have no reason to believe a sudden shift to a phonics-based curriculum will significantly affect reading outcomes in this country. A tool created with the sincere goal of enhancing our respect for animals could end up having the opposite effect by turning them into playthings that we can pester and control. In Hazrat’s view, the greatest changed-the-world punctuation mark of all time is the space.
 The Nobel Prizes Will Be Awarded This Month – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources michalnavrat / Pixabay
The Nobel Prizes will be awarded this month. You might be interested in The Best Sites To Learn About The Nobel Peace Prize.  Research Studies Of The Week Mohamed_hassan / Pixabay
I often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature. You can see all my “Best” lists related to education research here. Here are some new useful studies (and related resources):
I’m adding Goal Clarification and Process Feedback Matter: Reducing Test Anxiety in Low-Stakes Testing to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR HELPING STUDENTS WITH “TEST ANXIETY” I’m adding Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation from a self-determination theory perspective: Definitions, theory, practices, and future directions to Best Posts On “Motivating” Students. I’m adding Learning how to become an autonomy-supportive teacher begins with perspective taking: A randomized control trial and model test to the same list.
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