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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): Research Bite #41: Secondary School Mathematics Teachers’ Accuracy at Predicting Student Errors is from Tips For Teachers.
“Send Them Home?” Rethinking What Public Education Owes to Flourishing Children
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Practice-Based Teacher Education Pedagogies Improve Responsiveness: Evidence from a Lab Experiment is a paper I’m adding to The Best Resources On Professional Development For Teachers — Help Me Find More. Kids’ Social Media Use Linked to Lower Reading and Memory Scores, Study Suggests is from Ed Week.      April’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 2,578 Of Them! Prawny / Pixabay
Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,578 of them categorized here – you might also want to check out THREE ACCESSIBLE WAYS TO SEARCH FOR & FIND MY “BEST” LISTS). Here are the lists from this month: The Best Resources Highlighting What English Language Learner Students Want From Their Teachers The Best Resources For Using The “Spot The Difference” Strategy With English Language Learners The Best Resources For Helping Students Understand The Impact Their Behavior Has On Classmates  “To Teach (and Reach) English Learners, Center Their Identity”To Teach (and Reach) English Learners, Center Their Identity is the headline of one of my recent Education Week columns. Instructing multilingual learners effectively requires a balancing act from teachers. Here are some excerpts:
 Google Translate’s “Practice” Feature Finally Makes Itself A Useful Tool For Language Learning – It Now Assesses Your Pronunciation!
Last August, I published Google Unveils Two Language Tools – One Can Be Very Helpful, The Other Not So Much. In it, I first shared about the Google Translate “Live Translate” feature, which is an incredibly useful simultaneous translation ability. The second new feature was a “Practice” tool using AI to teach any language of your choice. That was okay but, for the life of me, I couldn’t understand why they didn’t include assessing your pronunciation. Well, the finally added that ability today. You can read about it at Tech Crunch’s post, Google Translate now lets you practice pronunciation, and at Google’s tweet below:
It didn’t work for me exactly like Google’s video shows. I had to click on the sound icon next to the phrase in the language I was translating the words into, and then a “Say It” bubble appeared (as in the photo at the top if this post). Then I said it, and received this feedback:
This is a huge win for English Language Learners. For now, at least, a site like Speakable works better for the classroom since you can assign pronunciation and get student feedback. I’d bet dollars to donuts that kind of set-up will eventually be available in Google Classroom. For now, it’s a great tool for the most motivated students who want to practice on their own. I’m adding this info to THE BEST SITES FOR ONLINE PRONUNCIATION FEEDBACK – DO YOU KNOW OTHERS? and The Most Useful Free Or VERY Low Cost AI Tools For Supporting English Language Learners.  My Best Posts That Appeared In April
I regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see older Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month (more recent lists can be found here). You can also see my all-time favorites here. I’ve also been doing “A Look Back” series reviewing old favorites, too. Here are some of the posts I personally think are the best, and most helpful, ones I’ve written during this past month (not in any order of preference) – also note that I group many updates on the Trump administration’s current attack on education and democracy in weekly posts you can find here): What Do You Think Of These Two Questions For Helping Guide School AI Use? The Advantages Of Not Having A Zero-Sum Mindset This Is Pretty Interesting: Meta-Analyses Ranking Instructional Math Strategies How Did I Not Know That The PBS NewsHour Publishes A “Daily News Lesson” …Daily? New Study Finds That Peer & Self Assessment Helps Create The Conditions For Student Motivation Researchers Suggest That New AI Text Detectors Work Big New Analysis Of What Works In Reading Instruction For Older Readers – Here’s What It Says “The Claim Auditor” Uses AI To Verify…Claims That People Say Are Research-Based U.S. Dept. Of Ed Announces It Plans To Shut Down Its Office Supporting English Language Learners New Study Confirms What Most Teachers Know – Having A Sense Of Humor Helps Big-Time In The Classroom “What If History” Is A Fun AI Tool & Also Makes Me Feel Sad About What AI Has Done To Classrooms “What Drains Teachers’ Energy and How to Stop It? ‘It Was Never the Kids’” “A Little Shift in Teaching Can Go a Long Way in the Classroom” “Many Teachers Have Novels Living Inside. Here’s How to Write Them” “An Iranian American Educator Speaks From a Broken Heart”  More Recent Articles
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