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Ed Tech Digest
Ten years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “Ed Tech Digest” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in checking out all my edtech resources. Here are this week’s choices:
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless is from The Economist. I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles Highlighting Why We Need To Be Very Careful Around Ed Tech.
Quote Card lets you create quotations to share on social media. I’m adding it to The Best Tools For Creating Visually Attractive Quotations For Online Sharing. Data Poems are pretty interesting, and could be used as models for students. I’m adding it to The Best World Poetry Day Resources – Help Me Find More.
     The Most Important Qualities Of A Great ELL Teacher thisisprabha / Pixabay
I have a The Best Videos Illustrating Qualities Of A Successful Language Learner list, and thought it was time to create a similar one for teachers. You might also be interested in The “Best” Lists Of Recommendations About What “Effective” Teachers Do. Here goes: English Language Learners Tell Us What Helps Them Learn A Look Back: Three Videos Of English Language Learners Giving Advice To Teachers What Makes an Outstanding Language Teacher? A Research-Based Perspective is from The Language Gym. What language learners really value in their teachers — the top five qualities – and why is from The Language Gym. What makes a “great” language teacher? is from ELT Buzz. 
The 4 Stages of Competence in Language Teaching is from The Barefoot TEFL Teacher. Common Characteristics of an Effective English Language Teacher The Central Characteristics of Successful ESL/EFL Teachers
What Makes A Great Language Teacher What Makes a Great Language Teacher? Qualities of EFL and ESL Educators Dave Weller is a non-US based teacher of English who writes an excellent blog called The Barefoot TEFL Teacher. His post, 10 Top TEFL Teaching Tips, is really an excellent one  SEL Weekly Update
I’ve begun this weekly post where I’ll be sharing resources I’m adding to The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources or other related “Best” lists. Also, check out “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources. Here are this week’s picks: Retrieval Practice and Student Wellbeing is from Kate Jones. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Retrieval Practice. Here are two new interesting studies about SEL in international contexts: Examining the impact of social-emotional learning on academic achievement through CPD Cultural adaptation of the DESSA high-school student self report for chinese adolescents
With 1 word, Taylor Swift just explained how to be successful in work and life is from Fast Company. The word, by the way, is “overdeliver.” What Science Tells Us About Arguing With Your Father-in-Law is from The NY Times. I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles On Building Influence & Creating Change. I’m adding this post to the same list:
 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):
The five-year itch: Motivational factors that influence the career decisions of early career teachers in England is from Tips For Teachers.
Summer School Can Boost Learning Gains—Even When Programs Aren’t Perfect is from Ed Week.  This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom geralt / Pixabay
At least, for now, I’m going to make this a weekly feature which will highlight additions to THE BEST NEW – & FREE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THAT COULD BE USED IN THE CLASSROOM: Enhancing Speaking Proficiency through AI-Based Tools: An Experimental Study of English Language Learners at Higher Secondary Level is a study that finds positive uses in students using TalkPal.AI. Qzlly lets you create assessments that can be tracked. It has a pretty good free plan. MathBlast is for math worksheets. Canary is an app that lets you “Learn languages through Music. Practice with People.” Color Craft is yet another coloring page generator. Prosody looks like an interesting language-learning tool with a decent free plan, as is Canonically.
3 Ways to Use MagicSchool to Support English Language Learners is from Edutopia. This next resource comes from Wonder Tools: Sophisticated image editing with AI usually requires careful prompting. What I like about Leonardo AI’s new Blueprints feature is that you can just upload an image and pick from dozens of styles, without knowing what words to use in a prompt. You can transform boring or sloppy headshots into creative images. Here’s an experiment with one of my headshots, and another. I’m adding this video to The Best Resources For Creating Infographics:   More Recent Articles |
