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Yet Another Study Finds That “Controlling Teachers” Are Not The Best Ones
As most teachers (and parents) have discovered, having a controlling style doesn’t often work for kids. Yet another study reinforces that finding – The impact of controlling teaching style on student engagement and academic achievement: Differences across varied motivation profiles. Most of it is behind a paywall, but Carl Hendrick offers a pretty comprehensive summary of it (just scroll down a little bit there). Many other studies have found that “authoritative” beats “authoritarian” every day. Here are my previous posts about this research and topic: “Authoritative” School Climate Connected To Reduction In Student Suspensions Study: “Authoritative,” Not “Authoritarian,” Classroom Management Works Best For Boys New Study Finds What Most Teachers Already Know – Our Tone Matters Surprise, Surprise – Punishment May Not Be The Best Parenting (Or Teaching) Strategy Parental Style Study Makes Sense For Teachers, Too      Roe v. Wade Was Overturned Four Years Ago – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources 21967857 / Pixabay
Roe v. Wade was overturned three years ago. You might be interested in USEFUL RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT THE REPEAL OF ROE.  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: Research shows that schools with librarians tend to outperform schools without them on standardized tests, and even that schools with full-time librarians get better scores than schools with part-time library staff. You are not building for users. You are building inside a system of care. Kane doesn’t find a strong correlation between states’ reading gains since 2022 and the number of science-of-reading elements they’ve incorporated. The classic failure mode of ed tech is the solution in search of a problem – the genuinely impressive technology that does not solve any of the actual problems schools face. See The Best Posts & Articles Highlighting Why We Need To Be Very Careful Around Ed Tech We tend to think only about ourselves as individuals who grow, but everything grows and changes, all around us, in time. For me, typing is for speed, and writing is for learning. In an exclusive survey by the EdWeek Research Center, more than half of the teachers, principals, and district leaders surveyed said use of technology in school had a negative impact on students’ social and emotional skills development and overall well-being and mental health. “Music can’t change the world, but it can make you believe the world can be changed.” Patrick Lucey, who works on machine learning in sports, likens [soccer] teams to sentences and players to words whose meanings change with context. “A key piece of fighting against authoritarianism is asking the question, ‘What more can we do for each other?’” But delivering content efficiently is not the same as understanding how learning happens. Decades of research suggests that effective learning is not always efficient.
 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:
Country Recall is a simple geography game that challenges you to name as many countries as possible. I’m adding it to The Best Online Geography Games. UNESCO has an interactive online museum of lost and stolen cultural objects from around the world. Ripple is a new aggregator from The Washington Post. I’m adding it to The Best Visually Engaging News Sites. Hot Water is an impressive interactive from National Geographic about rising ocean temperatures. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The World’s Oceans. However, NG doesn’t have a good track record of leaving their interactives online for very long. Deep Time is a cool interactive about the history of Australia’s aboriginal peoples. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn About Australia. I had never heard of Google’s Pinpoint tool, but it’s now open to all and you learn all about it here.  Four Interactive Maps Highlighting Books With Authors Or Plots From Each Country
Here are four free sites that let users explore books by either the countries their authors are from or by plots taking place in those countries: Read Around The World Challenge
I’m adding this info to The Best Places To Get Blog, Website, , Book, Movie, & Music Recommendations.  More Recent Articles
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