"Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day…" - 5 new articles

I’ve been a longtime Star Trek: The Next Generation fan and, in fact, have now began to watch the series again for the first time since it came out.

 

     

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A big new study on student engagement, with a zillion co-authors, including Carol Dweck, was recently released.

It’s titled A Scalable, Theory-Based Intervention to Infuence Teachers’ Student Engagement Practices Improves Academic Performance in a State-Wide Sample.

The practices the study promoted won’t be anything new to most teachers:

Practices targeted by the program. In the FUSE program, we provided teachers with professional learning that helped them to communicate a culture of learning (and overturn the culture of judgment and evaluation) through relatively short, targeted messages to students (see Table 1 and Extended Data Figure 5). These messages conveyed that all students, regardless of their past performance, can learn, improve, and do well if they work hard and seek appropriate help from teachers and peers. Examples of these messages include the ideas (a) that students’ mistakes provide useful information to teachers about what students need and about how the teachers can be more effective in their teaching, (b) that test scores represent students’ performance at one moment in time and, if not optimal, need not determine how well they can perform in the future, and (c) that the teacher has 4 rigorous but flexible classroom grading policies if students correct their mistakes and show evidence of mastering the material (via retesting or revision). (see Supplemental Online Materials).

However, while the practices won’t be new, the study’s authors included the materials they used to train teachers to implement them. I think a fair number of them might be new to teachers, and suitable for distribution and discussion among faculty.

You can download them here, and then scroll to page 11.

I’m adding this info to The Best Posts & Articles On Student Engagement.

     

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Veterans Day is coming up on November 11th.

You might be interested in The Best Websites To Learn About Veterans Day.

     

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Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, will start on November 8th this year.

You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About Diwali.

     

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:

Doodle Battle is yet another online drawing game.  I’m adding it to The Best Online Games Students Can Play In Private Virtual “Rooms”

 

Screens in Schools: What the New Screen-Time Debate Means for Educators is from Ed Surge.

Is There Too Much Screen Time in School? Read student answers at the NY Times Learning Network.

 

Here’s an interactive periodic table.

Kwerty is yet another online game to teach keyboarding. I’m adding it to The Best Sites Where Students Can Learn Typing/Keyboarding.

ProWhiteboard offers a free online…whiteboard.